Solutions Consultant 2 – Federal

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Solutions Consultant guiding federal customers through cybersecurity transformations for Palo Alto Networks. Designing technical solutions, leading validations, and driving platform adoption.

Responsibilities:

  • Provide technical leadership, expertise, and guidance throughout customers’ security transformation journeys
  • Define technical solutions that secure customers’ key business imperatives and ensure value realization
  • Evangelize Palo Alto Networks’ on-premises, cloud, and security operations services
  • Meet and exceed sales quotas through strategic technical account plans targeting cross-platform solutions
  • Understand customer business requirements and position, demonstrate, and create high-level designs across the PANW portfolio
  • Drive customer adoption of the Palo Alto Networks Platform
  • Build customer relationships and help customers achieve productivity, operational efficiency, security efficacy, and flexibility to innovate
  • Conduct discovery to articulate technical, operational, and commercial imperatives
  • Collaborate with Professional Services, Customer Success, Specialist, Customer Support, and Channel teams
  • Deliver technical presentations, customer-specific demonstrations, workshops, and technical validation engagements
  • Lead technical validation efforts to secure technical wins
  • Promote end-to-end solutions including PANW and partner professional services
  • Differentiate Palo Alto Networks in the cybersecurity market
  • Develop technical and professional skills through community and industry-event participation
  • Identify technical stakeholders and build security architecture transformation roadmaps

Requirements:

  • 6+ years of experience in pre-sales/sales engineering
  • Skilled in at least one of: Networking, Network Security, Cybersecurity, Private/Public Cloud Security, SOC/Endpoint, or SASE
  • Experience delivering cybersecurity solutions that solve technical challenges and influence new business initiatives preferred
  • Experience influencing and gaining buy-in from key stakeholders
  • Prior experience in a pre-sales role ideal
  • Experience creating and delivering technical presentations, workshops, or technical validation engagements
  • Experience selling, designing, implementing, or managing Network Security, SASE, SaaS, CNAPP and/or SOC Transformation Technologies
  • Experience partnering with Customer Support functions for successful implementation and adoption
  • Experience in complex sales involving long sales processes, multiple buying centers, and multi-product solutions preferred
  • No immigration sponsorship; applicants must not require employer-sponsored work visas

Benefits:

  • Restricted stock units
  • Bonus
  • Employee benefits (details referenced via employer benefits page)
  • Reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities