Sase 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.

We’re changing the nature of work. Palo Alto Networks is evolving to meet the needs of our employees now and in the future through FLEXWORK, our approach to how we 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**

The SASE Architect is an individual contributor that will be a part of a small yet highly effective Customer Solutions team reporting to the Global SASE Architecture Director.

This individual and team will partner closely with the Core sales team and Systems Engineering, Product, Engineering, Professional Services, Customer Success, and Support teams to ensure that the Global Protect solutions that Palo Alto Networks is delivering to its customers are architecturally sound and supportable. This position requires a collaborative, creative, highly technical, and business-savvy individual that is able to architect complex solutions that meet the needs of our most demanding customers.

This is a remote based role that requires quarterly travel to the US for team meetings and once per month, on average, for customer meetings.

**Your Impact**
- Be knowledgeable in GlobalProtect and Identity Management
- Knowledgeable in Global GP architectures
- Knowledgeable in Identity solutions to enable GP
- Enable scale as the central trusted technology advisor and lead architect of customer solutions for Prisma Access
- PAN-OS related troubleshooting and knowledge
- Increase customer satisfaction by working with Systems Engineers to architect supportable solutions while increasing Prisma Access revenue and exceeding corporate goals
- Produce and improve Prisma Access design guidelines and documentation for standard use cases
- Assist the SASE Specialists & systems engineering team to effectively position customer solutions which are aligned with the standard use cases within their prospects and customers
- Create, implement, and constantly improve the process for working with Prisma Access stakeholders to approve customer designs which deviate from the standard use cases
- Lead GlobalProtect stakeholders including Product Management, Engineering, Professional Services, Customer Success, and Support to validate designs which deviate from the standard use cases
- Expand the breadth and number of standard use cases not requiring design review and approval
- Maintain bi-directional trusted advisor relationship with Product Management acting as a conduit for feature development requests based on feedback learned from the design review process
- Present to customers as our expert in Prisma Access and deployment at all levels in the customer hierarchy, from technician to CIO

**Qualifications**:
**Your Experience**
- In depth knowledge of GlobalProtect and/or competitive offerings
- In depth knowledge of networking and routing protocols
- Demonstrable experience in cloud-delivered security
- Experience that emphasizes VPN and Identity Management
- BSCS or equivalent or equivalent military experience and 8+ years of experience as a Systems Engineer or Architect
- Experience in selling, demonstrating, installing & troubleshooting network infrastructure security products and services
- Demonstrated ability to build and lead cross-functional teams through influence
- Effective communication (written and verbal) and presentation skills, both internally and externally
- Exceptional problem finding and solving skills, ability to analyze complex multivariate problems, using creativity and a systematic approach to gain quick resolution, even under duress
- Whatever it takes attitude and motivation to do whatever is necessary to assist in closing a deal

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 systems engineer (SE) teams come in. Our SE team members work hand-in-hand with large organizations to keep their digital information