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Domain Consultant (Presales) - Cortex

Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa Systems Engineering Full-time Ref ID: JR-010080
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Overview

Your next great move.

If you're passionate about staying ahead of the curve in cybersecurity and thrive on helping organizations safeguard their most valuable digital assets, a Solutions Consulting role at Palo Alto Networks could be your next great move. We're looking for individuals who are passionate about advanced security solutions and enjoy tailoring them to meet complex challenges. We're always recruiting the best and brightest who thrive on helping customers navigate the ever-changing security landscape and have the ability to make the most complex challenges attainable. You'll partner closely with Account Executives to evangelize the Palo Alto Networks platform and highlight the benefits it can provide our customers, helping them secure their most critical digital assets. At Palo Alto Networks, you'll find strong career growth, collaboration with top talent, and a mission-driven environment focused on securing our digital future.

  • Level: Mid-Senior
  • Travel: Yes (frequent)
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What it takes to be successful.

What makes a successful Solutions Consultant at Palo Alto Networks? Check out the top traits we’re looking for and see if you have the right mix.

  • Technical Acumen
  • Focuses on the Customer
  • Drives Results
  • Demonstrates Resilience
  • Builds Trust
  • Adapts

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Our Mission

At Palo Alto Networks® everything starts and ends with our mission:

Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.
Our vision is a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. We are a company built on the foundation of challenging and disrupting the way things are done, and we’re looking for innovators who are as committed to shaping the future of cybersecurity as we are.

Who We Are

We take our mission of protecting the digital way of life seriously. We are relentless in protecting our customers and we believe that the unique ideas of every member of our team contributes to our collective success. Our values were crowdsourced by employees and are brought to life through each of us everyday - from disruptive innovation and collaboration, to execution. From showing up for each other with integrity to creating an environment where we all feel included.

As a member of our team, you will be shaping the future of cybersecurity. We work fast, value ongoing learning, and we respect each employee as a unique individual. Knowing we all have different needs, our development and personal wellbeing programs are designed to give you choice in how you are supported. This includes our FLEXBenefits wellbeing spending account with over 1,000 eligible items selected by employees, our mental and financial health resources, and our personalized learning opportunities - just to name a few!

At Palo Alto Networks, we believe in the power of collaboration and value in-person interactions. This is why our employees generally work full time from our office with flexibility offered where needed. This setup fosters casual conversations, problem-solving, and trusted relationships. Our goal is to create an environment where we all win with precision.

Your Career

As a Domain Consultant for SOC Transformation you will be the expert for our Cortex portfolio, a Next-Gen AI-powered security operations platform.  You will play a key role in defining technical solutions that secure a customer’s key business imperatives.  You evangelize our industry leading solutions in Security Intelligence and Automation, XDR, Attack Surface Management, SOAR and Incident Response that establish Palo Alto Networks as a customer’s cybersecurity partner of choice.

Your Impact

  • Collaborate with account teams to recommend and develop customer solutions within your assigned specialization area
  • Present to customers as our expert at all levels in the customer hierarchy, from practitioner to senior leadership
  • As the main technical point of contact for Cortex, you will assist and collaborate to respond effectively to RFIs/RFPs
  • Lead and support customer demonstrations that showcase our unique value proposition
  • Scope and lead Proof of Value (PoV) projects for prospective customers and partners based on best practices to ensure technical win in your assigned opportunities
  • Drive high technical validation and PoV win rates within your assigned specialization area
  • Responsible for discussing and highlighting product alignment with customer requirements and differentiation
  • Architect solutions that will help our customers strengthen and simplify their security posture
  • Document High-Level Design and Key Use Cases to ensure proper implementation and value realization of Palo Alto Networks Solutions
  • Help our customers build and develop further their services around Cortex solutions
  • Lead conversations about industry trends and emerging changes to the security landscape 
  • Discuss, with credibility, competitive offers in the marketplace and position ours as the best alternative
  • Position Palo Alto Networks or Partner delivered services as appropriate to ensure proper implementation and value realization of Palo Alto Networks solutions
  • Initiate projects to improve individual team’s performance
  • Implement organizational policies & help others adopt
  • Act as a conduit for customer feedback to Product Management, Technical Marketing, competitor intelligence, and R&D to create requirements and deliver product features for our customers

Your Experience 

  • 6+ years experience in Security Operations or pre-sales/sales engineering within XDR/EDR, SIEM and SOC experience is an advantage
  • IBM QRadar design, deployment, and/or pre-sales experience highly desirable
  • Experience in working with customers, demonstrating problem-solving skills and a can-do attitude
  • Solid understanding of Security Operations Center processes 
  • Penetration Testing experience is a plus
  • This is a field sales position where travel requirements may be required to support in person customer meetings, please discuss with the recruiter on the specifics for this position.
  • Proficient in English

The Team

Our Domain Consultant team members work hand-in-hand with organizations around the world to keep their digital environments protected. We educate, inspire,and empower our potential clients in their journey to security. 

You are empowered with unmatched systems and tools and a team built on joint success. You won’t find someone at Palo Alto Networks that isn’t committed to your success – with everyone pitching in to assist when it comes to solutions selling, learning, and development. Our Solutions Consulting community is driven by the mission to be our customers’ cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting their digital way of life. 

Our Commitment

We’re problem solvers that take risks and challenge cybersecurity’s status quo. It’s simple: we can’t accomplish our mission without diverse teams innovating, together.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for all qualified individuals with a disability. If you require assistance or accommodation due to a disability or special need, please contact us at  accommodations@paloaltonetworks.com.

Palo Alto Networks is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity in our workplace, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or other legally protected characteristics.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

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It's our mission.

We are the global cybersecurity leader, united in our mission to protect our digital way of life.

  • Determined to make a difference.
  • Shaping the future of cybersecurity.
  • Your unique perspective is valued.

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Hear from our people.

“I'm passionate about solving customer challenges in the most complete way possible. The advantage of working at Palo Alto Networks is the breadth and depth of technology capabilities, product innovation and all the brilliant people that make things happen for our customers.

Day-to-day I work with customers to transform their Security Operations, having our broad portfolio at my disposal enables me to do the best work possible for our customers.

Working with great people allows me to grow and succeed. My success is the sum of my efforts and the efforts of my colleagues, including everyone from Product Management, Research, my teammates, and many others.”

- Nana-Ampofo, Senior Consulting Engineer

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