Academy Systems Engineer

Our Mission

At Palo Alto Networks were united by a shared missionto protect our digital way of life. We thrive at the intersection of innovation and impact solving real-world problems with cutting-edge technology and bold thinking. Here everyone has a voice and every idea counts. If youre ready to do the most meaningful work of your career alongside people who are just as passionate as you are youre in the right place.

Who We Are

In order to be the cybersecurity partner of choice we must trailblaze the path and shape the future of our industry. This is something our employees work at each day and is defined by our values: Disruption Collaboration Execution Integrity and Inclusion. We weave AI into the fabric of everything we do and use it to augment the impact every individual can have. If you are passionate about solving real-world problems and ideating beside the best and the brightest we invite you to join us!

Job Summary

Your Career

As an Associate Systems Engineer you will join a cohort of recent college graduates for an immersion into Palo Alto Networks platform automation and cybersecurity across network endpoint and cloud. This program includes up to 24 months of formal technical instruction with hands-on labs both group and individual projects technical study and professional skills development. As you advance through the program you will be placed with various sales engineering teams to learn how to support customers during the pre-sales process.

While ramping on the Academy development track you will work alongside other SE teams to learn and support the other critical work with customers within the presales process. As part of your development you will work as a technical advisor in tandem with our sales and channel partners on customer engagements establishing relationships with customers with the goal of helping them ensure each day is more secure than the one before.

Upon completion of the program you will have gained proven technical and professional skills shown qualification across multiple certifications and rotations with senior SEs to take on a field SE position in any number of cities across the US based on business needs. Our SEs are among the best in the cybersecurity industry with a deep technical understanding of cybersecurity products integrations and the critical cyber threats facing our potential customers environments.

Your Impact

• Learn the technical aspects and business value of Palo Alto Networks products

• Develop the skills necessary to propose cybersecurity solutions comprised of Palo Alto Networks products

• Establish yourself as a trusted team member to Technical Solutions leadership and colleagues while contributing to sales wins throughout the program

• Architect and propose solutions that address the identified cybersecurity problems in each customers unique environment

• Develop presentation skills and understanding of business and technical discovery methods

• Ensure ongoing customer success support and adoption of cybersecurity solutions

• Understand and effectively differentiate against our top competitors

• Identify and document specific problems with prospective and current customers which can be solved through the deployment of integrated solutions

• Act as the customer advocate for any issues that require technical assistance and follow up with the customer until the issue is resolved

• Continuous self-improvement and learning to maintain technical leadership of applicable technologies (SASE XDR public cloud security networking etc.)

Qualifications

Your Experience

• 4-year undergraduate degree preferably in a business or technical field of study

• Understand and effectively present complex concepts to technical and non-technical audiences

• Strong analytical skills to evaluate complex problems and a systematic approach to creating solutions

• Effective time-management skills and study habits

• Awareness and desire to learn modern cybersecurity prevention utilizing automation cloud endpoint and network technologies

Compensation Disclosure

The compensation offered for this position will depend on qualifications experience and work location. For candidates who receive an offer at the posted level the starting base salary (for non-sales roles) or base salary commission target (for sales/com-missioned roles) is expected to be the annual range listed below. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found here.

Our Commitment

Were trailblazers that dream big take risks and challenge cybersecuritys status quo. Its simple: we cant accomplish our mission without diverse teams innovating together.

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