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Palo Alto Networks Customer Success Engineer, SASE in Plano, Texas
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.
Our Approach to Work
We lead with personalization and choice in all of our people programs. We have disrupted the traditional view that all employees have the same needs and wants. We offer our employees the opportunity to choose what works best for them as often as possible - from your wellbeing support to your growth and development, and beyond!
At Palo Alto Networks, we believe in the power of collaboration and value in-person interactions. This is why our employees generally work from the office with some flexibility offered where needed. This setup fosters casual conversations, problem-solving, and trusted relationships. While details may evolve, our goal is to create an environment where innovation thrives, with office-based teams coming together three days a week to collaborate on the industry’s best cybersecurity solutions together!
Your Career
Our Customer Success Engineers(CSEs) provide deep product-level expertise in deployment, adoption, and optimization, communicating new versions/features, offering product support and advisories, and helping resolve escalations. You will work closely with CISOs, CTOs, security, cloud, network, and other technical teams from the world’s largest and most well-known organizations.
This position works within our Secure Access Service Edge(SASE) Customer Success organization as part of a team that helps our customers in their cloud transformation journey. Some solutions you will work with include Prisma Access, SD-WAN, CASB, and others under the SASE portfolio.
Your Impact
As a Customer Success Engineer, you will work with Professional Services, Product Management, Engineering, and Account Teams to ensure our customers and partners get the most out of our products
Exhibit deep product-level technical expertise in deployment, software upgrades, optimization, new versions/features, product advisories, and hardware and software lifecycle
Gain a deep understanding of typical business challenges faced by our customers and serve as a customer advocate driving product adoption through upgrade planning, best practice assessments, and security posture improvement to solve these challenges
Evaluate the risk, complexity, and benefits of feature implementation for customers with national and international footprints
Develop and deliver customized training sessions and workshops to educate customers on the functionalities and capabilities of our SASE products to solve technical needs
Serve as the primary point of contact for customers' technical inquiries, troubleshooting issues, and promptly resolving challenges
Gather customer feedback regarding product usability, features, and enhancements, and be the customer's voice to relay this information to the product development team to drive continuous product improvement
Collaborate with customers, provide hands-on assistance in deploying new features, and ensure smooth integration of SASE products customers have purchased into their infrastructure
Ensure customers maximize their investment by rapidly implementing and operationalizing Palo Alto Networks solutions to achieve security objectives
Partner with account teams to deliver high-visibility, high-touch delivery strategy, technical account plan deployments, and product-level success plans
Manage complex customer situations, coordinating the actions of the Account Team, Services Teams, Partners Resources, and Engineering, ensuring the customer and internal stakeholders have the information required to make decisions and to act to address customer needs
Participate in hiring, onboarding, and mentoring of new team members
Create and maintain technical documentation, knowledge base articles, and troubleshooting guides to assist customers in self-service and problem resolution
Sharing knowledge and helping fellow employees to be successful
Your Experience
Total of 5+ years of industry experience in network security, computer networking, and related areas
Work experience should include 4+ years of hands-on designing, deploying, and managing large enterprise networks in real time
Detail understanding of NoC (Network Operations Center) and SoC (Security Operations Center) day-to-day operational requirements in building and maintaining a secure network
Detailed working knowledge of network infrastructure and security, TCP/IP, BGP, NGFW, SSL/IPSec VPNs
Solid understanding of routing protocols, with hands-on experience in designing, configuring, and troubleshooting BGP-based production networks
Background in Internet and Security technologies such as Sandboxing, Firewalls, DLP, and VPNs
Proven understanding of Security Life Cycle / Attack Life cycle and other security concepts and use of security products to protect the enterprise network from attackers and data breaches
Proven experience with SD-WAN, CASB, or Cloud/SaaS products and PCNSE, CCNP, CCSP, and CISSP certifications is a plus
Proven results working as a trusted technical advisor to drive value for customers, including the ability to interact with C-suite at various levels of technical and non-technical depth
Skilled in customer escalations with experience in account management and project management
Lead contributor in peer-reviewed white papers - Created technical content for KB articles and contributed to customer-facing forums
Lead delivery methodology improvements and mentoring enablement efforts with fellow peers
Strong and effective verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills
Ability to build and present content to influence large audiences
Ability to manage multiple engagements in a dynamic environment with constant change to address emerging security risks and challenges
Positive, growth-oriented mindset
Thrives in a matrixed team environment anchored by our values of Collaboration, Disruption, Execution, Inclusion, and Integrity
Travel - Open to occasional travel according to the need for strategic customer engagement and on-site
The Team
Customer Success Engineers are product experts, technical advisors, and customer advocates. At Palo Alto Networks, we take a proactive approach to ensure customers achieve their required outcomes with a product or a service through tailored end-to-end technical execution & guidance. Our team is responsible for managing our customers’ technical journey deploying, adopting and maturing Palo Alto Networks Secure Access Service Edge(SASE) products.
Our Commitment
We’re trailblazers that dream big, 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.
The compensation offered for this position will depend on qualifications, experience, and work location. For candidates who receive an offer at the posted level, the starting base salary (for non-sales roles) or base salary + commission target (for sales/commissioned roles) is expected to be between $112,600/yr to $182,250/yr. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found here (http://benefits.paloaltonetworks.com/) .
Is role eligible for Immigration Sponsorship?: No. Please note that we will not sponsor applicants for work visas for this position.
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