Professional Service Senior Consultant

Our Mission At Palo Alto Networks®, we’re united by a shared mission—to protect our digital way of life. We thrive at the intersection of innovation and impact, solving real-world problems with cutting-edge technology and bold thinking. Here, everyone has a voice, and every idea counts. If you’re ready to do the most meaningful work of your career alongside people who are just as passionate as you are, you’re in the right place. Who We Are In order to be the cybersecurity partner of choice, we must trailblaze the path and shape the future of our industry. This is something our employees work at each day and is defined by our values: Disruption, Collaboration, Execution, Integrity, and Inclusion. We weave AI into the fabric of everything we do and use it to augment the impact every individual can have. If you are passionate about solving real-world problems and ideating beside the best and the brightest, we invite you to join us! We believe collaboration thrives in person. That’s why most of our teams work from the office full time, with flexibility when it’s needed. This model supports real-time problem-solving, stronger relationships, and the kind of precision that drives great outcomes. Job Summary Your Career The Professional Services Consultant provides onsite and remote consultancy performing design, deployment, and configuration support relating to Palo Alto Networks’ product portfolio. Acts as a subject matter expert, providing strategic guidance around complex systems to secure a digital environment and resolve customer issues around deployment. Partners closely with customer teams to provide guidance and recommendations to better serve their success. Leverages deep understanding of customer environments, needs, and priorities to drive successful migration/deployment activities. The Professional Services Consultant is an integral part of our mission within our Professional Services team. As a Consultant, you will provide onsite and/or remote deployment and configuration expertise relating to Palo Alto Networks solutions. You will function as the product's Subject Matter Expert and will interact directly with the customer's personnel and project teams providing leadership, technical direction, interpretation, and alternatives to our best practice deployment methodology. This is a highly technical, hands-on role and you will develop and maintain expertise level skill sets on our products and solutions deployed within the customer's environment. As a Professional Services Consultant, you’ll get into the details of our platform. You will push the buttons, flip the levers, turn the knobs. You do not shy away from difficult challenges as it relates to cybersecurity, implementations, and integrations. You are the technical authority and will interact directly with our customers to help them secure their digital environments. The customers are counting on you to perform this work and train their staff. And while experience on the company’s platform is desired, even more important is having a solid foundation in networking and security technologies. In fact, extensive experience with a competitor’s technology can play to your advantage. Many of the opportunities involve a client migrating to our platform for the first time, so understanding the nuances of that technology will enable you to be a better Palo Alto Networks consultant. And don't worry, we will send you to our Professional Services Academy to prepare you for the role, so you are experienced with our suite of services and products before you first meet the customer. Your Impact Migrate customers from legacy firewall technologies to Palo Alto Networks platforms Build custom security policies and application signatures, configured for our client’s needs Take every opportunity to maintain proficiency and increase the level of knowledge on Palo Alto Networks SASE products, software, and services Provide after hours and weekend on-call support as needed to su ... (truncated, view full listing at source)