Systems Engineer

Our Approach to Work We lead with flexibility 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 personalization and 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! Your Career As a Systems Engineer, you’ll enable sales engagements into a set of large new enterprise accounts. You will play a key role in navigating complex accounts in order to generate and deliver winning proposals, contract bids, statements of work, and RFI/RFP responses. It is business critical to meet and exceed sales quotas by building and implementing strategic account plans targeting enterprise-wide deployments of the Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Security Platform. Your Impact • Establish yourself as a trusted advisor to prospects and customers working with your Account Manager and the local partners within your territory • Identify and document specific problems with prospective and current customers which can be solved through the deployment of integrated solutions • Architect and propose validated solutions which address the identified cybersecurity problems in each unrivaled environment • Ensure ongoing customer happiness, support, and adoption • 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 until the issue is resolved Your Experience • 4+ years of experience as a successful pre-sales SE, systems integrator, or equivalent experience • BS in Computer Science or equivalent or equivalent military experience required • Working knowledge of Palo Alto Networks products, with a focus on Next-Generation Firewall and some comparative technologies - Continuous technical development • Experience with systems installation, configuration and administration of routers/switches, UNIX/Linux, and Windows-based systems • Experience that emphasizes L2-L4 Networks (L2 switching architectures including Spanning Tree, IP routing that includes OSPF and BGP, and L4 Load balancing) • Understand and effectively present our security platform to technical and non-technical audiences • Strong analytical skills to evaluate complex multivariate problems and find a systematic approach to gain a quick resolution, often under duress • Mature and effective time-management skills • Prior experience selling network infrastructure-based security appliances, including but not limited to: Firewalls, SSL/IPSec VPNs, Security Proxies and Caches • Familiarity working with Channel partners and understanding of a channel-centric market approach • Previous work in the enterprise networking security space • Experience and knowledge of modern network threats and malware, network forensics, automation tools and technologies, and endpoint security technologies