Technical Sales Manager, Pre-Sales Systems Engineer – SD-WAN

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Technical Sales Manager for SD-WAN at Palo Alto Networks solving advanced cyber threats through product solutions. Collaborating with sales partners to serve customers' security needs.

Responsibilities:

  • Establish yourself as a trusted advisor on Palo Alto Networks’ SD-WAN products and capabilities, to prospects and customers, working with your Account Managers and the local partners within your territory
  • Architect and propose validated solutions which address the identified SD-WAN and security problems in each individual environment
  • Identify and document specific problems with prospective and current customers which can be solved through the deployment of integrated solutions
  • Ensure ongoing customer happiness, support and adoption
  • Pursue continuous self-improvement and learning to maintain technical leadership of applicable technologies (data center, SDN, public cloud, security, networking, etc.)
  • Understand and effectively differentiate against our top competitors
  • Act as the customer advocate for any issues that require technical assistance and follow-up with the customer through resolution

Requirements:

  • 5+ years of relevant technical pre-sales systems engineering work experience within the networking field
  • Highly advanced experience with SD-WAN architectures/providers, as well as BGP routing
  • Additional preferred technical capabilities may include a mix of the following – WAN technologies – MPLS, MetroE, Leased Lines, Broadband Tunneling protocols – SSL/TLS, IPSec, GRE, DMVPN
  • IP Routing – BGP, OSPF, Static, Network Address Translation
  • Virtualization technologies – ESX, KVM, Xen, Microsoft preferred
  • Network security capabilities – IPS/IDS, Zone-Based Firewalls
  • Ability to travel up to 50%.

Benefits:

  • A description of our employee benefits may be found here .