Solutions Architect

Company Description

**Our Mission**

At Palo Alto Networks® everything starts and ends with our mission:
Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.

We have the vision of a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. These aren’t easy goals to accomplish - but we’re not here for easy. We’re here for better. We are a company built on the foundation of challenging and disrupting the way things are done, and we’re looking for innovators who are as committed to shaping the future of cybersecurity as we are.

Disruption is at the core of our technology and on our way of work to meet the needs of our employees now and in the future through FLEXWORK, our approach to how we work. We’re changing the nature of work from benefits to learning, location to leadership, we’ve rethought and recreated every aspect of the employee experience at Palo Alto Networks. And because it FLEXes around each individual employee based on their individual choices, employees are empowered to push boundaries and help us all evolve, together.

**Job Description**:
**Your Career**

As a Palo Alto Networks Cortex Solutions Architect, you will be the expert for the broader Cortex XDR portfolio within our offerings. Your portfolio includes Cortex XDR (Extended Detection and Response platform across endpoints, network and cloud), Cortex XSOAR (Security Orchestration, Automation, Response & Threat Intel Management), Cortex Xpanse (Attack Surface Management), Cortex XSIAM (Extended Security Intelligence and Automation Management), and Unit 42 services.

Cortex Solutions Architect is the interface between business and technology. Working closely both internally - with product and engineering to share feedback from the field, and externally - with our prospects and customers to understand their business needs and to design technical solutions that take the best advantage of the Cortex platform.

**Your Impact**
- Drive complex deals in the pre-sale stage, alongside sales engineers and sales reps.
- Support the technical field sales engineer on POCs (proof of concept) - assist with the pre-sales process by answering technical questions, conducting POC evaluations, and working with engineering to bridge any gaps.
- Work closely with product and engineering to debug and correct challenges encountered during POCs.
- Training of the field sales engineers to present new features, product roadmap, new improvements, and sprint summary.
- Discuss complex platform architectures to prospects.
- Able to conduct architecture level discussions with prospects.

**Qualifications**:
**Your Experience**
- Experience with security incident response, both IR tools and IR workflow process or SOC operational processes - manual and automated.
- 4+ years of experience as a pre-sales engineer facing customers; Preferably working in a start-up and/or vendor environment.
- Advanced knowledge of cyber threats and cybercrime.
- Experience with common enterprise desktop software deployment methodologies.
- Experience installing, configuring, and integrating a complex Security environment.
- Understanding malware, exploits, operating system structure, and behavior.
- Demonstrable experience in securing these environments.
- Hands-on experience with Unix/Linux and Windows operating systems and scripting.
- Working knowledge of endpoint prevention, SIEM, vulnerability management tools, SOC, firewalls, and other security technologies both from a technology and a business driver standpoint.
- Strong problem finding and solving skills, ability to analyze complex multivariate problems, and use a systematic approach to gain quick resolution.
- Experience installing and configuring a virtual environment.
- Experience understanding threat signatures and their creation.
- Scripting/coding experience with a focus on Python, JavaScript, and PowerShell.
- Strong team collaboration skills.
- Strong communication and presentation skills in German and English, both verbally and written.

Additional Information
**The Team**

Palo Alto Networks has brought technology to market that is reshaping the cybersecurity threat and protection landscape. Our ability to protect digital transactions is limited only by our ability to establish relationships with our potential customers and help them understand how our products can protect their environments. This is where our solution architect (SA) teams come in. Our SA team members work together with large organizations to keep their digital information safe. Our passionate systems engineering teams educate, inspire, and empower our potential clients.

**Our Commitment**

We’re trailblazers that dream big, take risks, and challenge cybersecurity’s status quo. It’s simple: we can’t accomplish our mission without diverse teams innovating, together.

Palo Alto Networks is evolving and changing the nature of work to meet the needs of our employees now and in the future through FLEXW