Associate Customer Success Engineer NGFW

Your Career

Our Customer Success Engineers provide productlevel expertise in account setup deployment and adoption & optimization communicating new versions/features offering product support and advisory and managing escalations. You will work closely with CISOs CTOs and Security Cloud Network and other technical teams throughout the worlds largest and most wellknown organizations.

This position works with our Network Security team delivering support and services across our Next Generation Firewall (NGFW) technologies.  This position is available in the United States to work in a local Palo Alto Networks office.

Your Impact

• Product Expertise

  • Capture customers business and risk requirements translating them into technical requirements

  • Knowledge of network security products and solutions

  • Work with Product and Engineering teams to ensure customers and partners get the most out of our products

  • Exposure with capacity planning  bug scrub hardware and software lifecycle management

  • Exposure with NGFW features and services including AppID userID contentID etc.

  • Exposure in the planning and NGFW software upgrade process in mission critical environment

• Product Adoption

  • Serve as a customer advocate improving product adoption by influencing the product roadmap utilizing new features and identifying innovative use cases

  • Ensure customers maximize their investment by rapidly implementing and operationalizing Palo Alto Networks solutions to achieve their security objectives

  • Partner with account teams to deliver highvisibility hightouch delivery strategy technical account plan deployments and productlevel success plans

  • Facilitate customer engagements to ensure strategic alignment and adoption

• Customer Impact

  • Understanding of NGFW and CDSS best practices and related tools (AIOps BPA) to help customers maintain the highest levels of security

  • Understanding of customer software qualification change management and testing processes

  • Ability to create and present effective QBR/EBR presentations

  • Perform and document root cause analysis

  • Influence key stakeholders (internal and external) with strategic insights and recommendations

Your Impact

• Product Expertise

  • Capture customers business and risk requirements translating them into technical requirements

  • Knowledge of network security products and solutions

  • Work with Product and Engineering teams to ensure customers and partners get the most out of our products

  • Exposure with capacity planning  bug scrub hardware and software lifecycle management

  • Exposure with NGFW features and services including AppID userID contentID etc.

  • Exposure in the planning and NGFW software upgrade process in mission critical environment

• Product Adoption

  • Serve as a customer advocate improving product adoption by influencing the product roadmap utilizing new features and identifying innovative use cases

  • Ensure customers maximize their investment by rapidly implementing and operationalizing Palo Alto Networks solutions to achieve their security objectives

  • Partner with account teams to deliver highvisibility hightouch delivery strategy technical account plan deployments and productlevel success plans

  • Facilitate customer engagements to ensure strategic alignment and adoption

• Customer Impact

  • Understanding of NGFW and CDSS best practices and related tools (AIOps BPA) to help customers maintain the highest levels of security

  • Understanding of customer software qualification change management and testing processes

  • Ability to create and present effective QBR/EBR presentations

  • Perform and document root cause analysis

  • Influence key stakeholders (internal and external) with strategic insights and recommendations

Qualifications :

Your Experience

• 2 years relevant work experience in Network Engineering Architecture Security Engineering technical consulting or similar roles

• Good experience in supporting common end user software (Windows Mac Linux)

• Good experience in using tools such as Salesforce JIRA Gainsight or Tableau

• Working experience with public cloud platforms such as AWS Azure GCP Oracle (preferred)

• Experience in working as a trusted technical advisor to drive value for customers including the ability to interact with Csuite through client teams at various levels of technical and nontechnical depth

• Skilled in managing customer escalations with experience in technical support account management 

• Some experience with configuring and deploying CDSS features 

• Some knowledge of customer software qualification change management and testing processes

• Ability to create and present effective QBR/EBR presentations

• Perform and document root cause analysis

• Thrives in a matrixed team environment anchored by our values of Collaboration Disruption Inclusion and Integrity

• Ability to multitask and work in a fastpaced environment

• Preferred Prior security certification (PCNSA PCNSE CCNA CCNP CCIE or similar) 

• Travel Open to occasional travel according to the need for strategic customer engagement and onsites

Additional Information :

The Team

Customer Success Engineers  (CSEs) are product experts technical advisors and customer advocates. At Palo Alto Networks we take a proactive method to ensure customers achieve their required outcomes with a product or a service through tailored end to end technical & guidance.  Our team is responsible for implementing custom integrations & workflows to ensure the solutions are fully integrated into the customers tech environment.

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 nonsales roles) or base salary commission target (for sales/commissioned roles) is expected to be between $96000/YR $118000/YR. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found here.

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