Senior Certification Manager

Your Career

Palo Alto Networks has built a world-class product management organization and continues to expand it with top-notch members of the team. As a Senior member of the certifications team at Palo Alto Networks you will play a critical role in driving the attainment and ongoing maintenance of certifications across our product portfolio.

Certifications are essential to enabling our products to be sold into key global this role you will own the technical execution of product certifications end-to-end partnering closely with cross-functional teams while personally contributing core certification artifacts and content required for successful outcomes.

Your Impact

• Own and execute certification strategies in close partnership with product management sales engineering and other stakeholders ensuring certification outcomes are aligned with company priorities product direction and compliance changes. Drive FedRAMP Moderate High and IL5 assessment activities in partnership with engineering security and external assessors

• Apply NIST 800-53 FedRAMP and DoD SRG requirements to define clear actionable expectations and deliverables for internal teams

• Lead audit and ConMon execution including evidence coordination remediation planning and triage and POAM lifecycle management

• Author and maintain the System Security Plan (SSP) and supporting artifacts as systems and processes change

• Apply deep understanding of complex security and cloud architecture to evaluate control implementation identify gaps and drive remediation with engineering teams

• Build deep technical fluency across the product portfolio to lead discussions with assessors agencies and PMO certification bodies allowing internal subject matter experts to remain focused on delivery

• Communicate clearly and effectively across all levels of the organization from hands on engineers to executive leadership as well as external certification stakeholders

• Manage certification execution with a program management mindset by owning project plans timelines dependencies and risks and by providing clear status to stakeholders and leadership

Qualifications :

Your Experience 

• 5 years of experience supporting or leading technology-focused FedRAMP risk assessments Continuous Monitoring and remediation efforts

• Demonstrated ability to make risk based decisions and interpret security controls in complex real work environments

• Working knowledge of public cloud platforms (GCP AWS and/or Azure) including how cloud native architectures and services implement and enforce security controls

• Proven ownership of complex cross functional initiatives including planning execution and stakeholder communication

• Hands on authorship and long-term maintenance of SSPs and supporting certification documentation 

• Ability to manage multiple concurrent initiatives in a complex past paced environments

• Demonstrated ability to drive outcomes across teams without direct reporting authority

• Hands on self directed working style with a strong aptitude for understanding and working with complex technology products

• Experience working effectively in distributed environments with multiple teams operating across different priorities and time zones

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to engage effectively with engineers business stakeholders auditors and leadership

• Proactive curious and transparent approach; assertive yet collaborative comfortable taking ownership asking hard questions and driving work to completion with minimal supervision while embodying Palo Alto Networks values

• BS degree (or equivalent technical degree or equivalent military experience) required; MS preferred

• CISA CRISC CISSP or other similar security certifications desired

Additional Information :

The Team

To stay ahead of the curve its critical to know where the curve is and how to anticipate the changes were facing. For the fastest growing cybersecurity company the curve is the evolution of cyber attacks and the products and services that proactively address them. Our Global Certification Assurance and Trust Team helps us do just that.

Our organization and employees are committed to changing as rapidly as our industrys threats do and to do that we need creative product teams to address emerging cyber threats. They provide the behind-the-scenes support for our products by being a source of information on our products for our systems engineers staying on top of the environment we sell in and helping to implement product wide technical solutions based on our clients feedback and needs. As threats and technology evolve we stay ahead to accomplish our mission.

As part of our Global Certification Assurance and Trust Team you are working on the most interesting and challenging projects in the cyber security world and you thrive in a team 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 non-sales roles) or base salary commission target (for sales/commissioned roles) is expected to be between $170000 - $200000/YR. 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 problem solvers that take risks and challenge cybersecuritys status quo. Its simple: we cant accomplish our mission without diverse teams innovating together.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for all qualified individuals with a disability. If you require assistance or accommodation due to a disability or special need please contact us at  .

Palo Alto Networks is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity in our workplace and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age ancestry color family or medical care leave gender identity or expression genetic information marital status medical condition national origin physical or mental disability political affiliation protected veteran status race religion sex (including pregnancy) sexual orientation or other legally protected characteristics.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Remote Work :

Yes

Employment Type :

Full-time