Extended Expertise Consultant/Network Security Consultant

Your Career

You will provide guidance and technical support to clients deploying our security integrations. You ll act as the technical partner, providing strategic guidance around complex systems to secure a digital environment. Interacting directly with the client, you ll partner closely with client personnel to guide and suggest integrations to better serve their success. Your thorough understanding of our product integrations contributes to the development of new principles and concepts providing detailed analysis around what s working, what s not, and what could be better.

You enjoy implementation work, are proactive about resolving potential concerns, and operate well around strict best practices that enable our clients on their road to a more secure digital world. You re creative, innovative, and you love a challenge learning how integrations might work better around new products and technologies.

Your Impact

• Work full-time at the customer site or hybrid model
• Communicate with the customer(s), sales teams, peers, engineering and support teams as appropriate
• Understand the customer environment, requirements, and security roadmap to implement the appropriate security solution
• Configure, implement, and maintain Security Operating Platform
• Scale and Optimize the Palo NGFW/Panorama Solutions
• Optimize and migrate policies and objects from the existing environment to our Next-Gen Firewall
• Test and validate the migration environment
• Coordinate and execute cutover to production
• Provide guidance on code upgrades
• Facilitate the development of new applications and threat signatures
• Interact with our Technical Assistance Center (TAC) to understand and diagnose support cases
• Some travel may be required, dependent on customer's request
• You work with the customer's security & network teams to build confidence across the business units impacted by the change to Palo Alto Networks

Qualifications

Your Experience

• First Priority: Significant experience MIGRATING from competitor solutions to Palo Alto NGFWs, leveraging automation and scripting if possible.

• High level of experience with Panorama and log collectors

• NGFW; PANORAMA; Strata Cloud Manager (SCM)

• Global Protect (secondary)

• BS in Computer Science, MIS, business, or equivalent education/training/experience

• Minimum of 5 years experience with network/security solutions and technologies (BGP, SD-WAN concepts, VXLAN and general routing and switching)

• Minimum of 3 years experience leading security solutions in large environments

• Detailed technical experience in the installation, configuration, and operation of high-end firewall appliances, ideally Palo Alto Networks products

• You're experienced in internetworking, LAN, and WAN technologies

• You have a good understanding of Internet protocols and applications

• Possess the following industry certifications: CISSP, CCNA, CNSE, JNCIE-SEC, Palo Certifications

• You effectively handle multiple projects and work calmly in high pressure

• You're an excellent writer, with strong verbal communication skills, with demonstrable ability to communicate to senior leaders and technical peers

• Consultant Experience (soft skills, planning problem solving) required