Manager, Solutions Architecture, Prisma Cloud (Strategic & Major Accounts)

at  Palo Alto Networks

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.
Our vision is a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. 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.

WHO WE ARE

We take our mission of protecting the digital way of life seriously. We are relentless in protecting our customers and we believe that the unique ideas of every member of our team contributes to our collective success. Our values were crowdsourced by employees and are brought to life through each of us everyday - from disruptive innovation and collaboration, to execution. From showing up for each other with integrity to creating an environment where we all feel included.
As a member of our team, you will be shaping the future of cybersecurity. We work fast, value ongoing learning, and we respect each employee as a unique individual. Knowing we all have different needs, our development and personal wellbeing programs are designed to give you choice in how you are supported. This includes our FLEXBenefits wellbeing spending account with over 1,000 eligible items selected by employees, our mental and financial health resources, and our personalized learning opportunities - just to name a few!
Job Description

YOUR CAREER

As the Solution Architects (SA) Manager for Prisma Cloud, you will lead an organization that’s composed of industry-leading technical experts who are instrumental in helping our customers architect, scope and realize their cloud security transformation. Your close business partner will be the District Sales Manager for Prisma Cloud.
Along with your team, you will build close and influential relationships with your customers and prospects to help them securely deploy applications, containerized and serverless workloads across Public Cloud Service Providers and also within their own Private Cloud infrastructure. You will use your expertise to guide and mentor your team of field SAs to keep them on the leading edge of cloud security architecture and ahead of the latest cyber threats.
We are looking for a leader to develop our field cloud security SAs to become domain experts on cloud security and proficient on competitive products so they can effectively position Prisma Cloud to our customers in a differentiated way that leads to customer wins. You will coach your team to deliver compelling Proof of Value/Concepts that clearly showcase the strength of Prisma Cloud. As a leader, you will closely monitor all PoVs/PoCs to assure they are successful within the shortest possible time.
You will provide feedback to your team on an ongoing basis, to help them continuously learn and improve, so they show up as the best version of themselves everyday. Additionally you will provide feedback from the field and from customers to product management on new feature requests and product improvements.
To drive high adoption of Prisma Cloud, you will work with key stakeholders to ensure customers consume the platform modules based on optimal architectures. You will also coach your team in helping customers engineer and tune their Prisma Cloud solution based on recommendations and best practices.

YOUR EXPERIENCE

• 3+ years experience as a pre-sales Manager
• 6+ years as a Senior System Engineer, Senior Solutions Architect or in Consulting Engineering
• Industry knowledge of security product market trends and directional awareness of our roadmap and technology development efforts - Developing knowledge of competitor offerings and products
• Domain expertise in the areas of public cloud architectures, cloud native security models, CI/CD, DevOps, firewalls, and other security technologies both from a technology and a business driver standpoint
• Strong communication (written and verbal) and presentation skills
• Quota driven attitude focused on client’s best solution by being a trusted advisor
  Additional Information

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