
Sales Engineer
Palo Alto Networks
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
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Mid-LevelSenior
Tech Stack
AWSAzureCloudCyber SecurityFirewallsGoogle Cloud Platform
About the role
- The Services Sales Engineer (SSE) role is a creative and outgoing, services pre–sales professional with a passion for technology evangelism and custom solution development as a contributor to business development efforts.
- The SSE is experienced at both architecting and sizing the service elements required to enable the PANW platform.
- The SSE is also a seasoned presenter on how successful technology, blended with services, translates into business value.
- The SSE will contribute to growing the PANW services business by working directly with customers, helping them to define the service requirements necessary to maximize the value from the technology investments in pursuit of their desired technical and business outcomes.
- The SSE will work closely with the Services Sales team, Core and Specialist Sales.
- The SSE will also establish close partnerships with Delivery teams, Global Delivery Practices and other subject matter experts across the Palo Alto Professional Services organization.
- The role of an SSE is one that is fast paced, where the collective objective is to enable PANW customer's to achieve their digital transformation in a secure and safe manner through utilizing the surrounding services wrapper to meet each customers unique needs.
- The successful candidate will be able to assist customers in planning for large–scale transformations recommending the appropriate blend of services to leverage the value within the PANW portfolio.
Requirements
- Proven track record in technical consulting, pre–sales and/or delivery experience, working within an IT or Cyber Security services organization
- Self–motivated and detail–oriented
- Strong written, verbal and presentation skills
- Demonstrated experience in discovery/scope definition workshops with cross–functional internal and customer resources to prepare current state/future state roadmaps and services proposals
- Highly proficient around network infrastructure based security appliances, including but not limited to – Firewalls, SSL/IPSec VPNs, Security Proxies and Caches, Secure Access Service Edge (SASE), Public Cloud environments including AWS, Azure and GCP, Cloud Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP) securing applications from code to cloud
- Security Operations (SecOps) experience is desirable
- PANW Platform experience will be an extra asset
- Experience in those Territories preferred: North Europe (UKI, Benelux & Nordics)
Benefits
- Professional development opportunities
- Flexible working hours
- Health insurance
- Paid time off
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
technical consultingpre-salesdelivery experiencenetwork infrastructure securityFirewallsSSL/IPSec VPNsSecurity ProxiesSecure Access Service Edge (SASE)AWSAzure
Soft skills
self-motivateddetail-orientedstrong written skillsstrong verbal skillspresentation skills