Professional Services Consultant, Cloud Security (Automation)

Your Career

As a Professional Services Consultant for Cloud Security with AI and Automation, you will design, deploy, and integrate Palo Alto Networks solutions across public and private cloud environments. Acting as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) for our virtualized and GenAI-related security technologies, you’ll engage directly with customer stakeholders—both onsite and remotely—to drive secure, scalable implementations.

Your Impact

As a Subject Matter Expert (SME) in Palo Alto Networks' virtualized solutions, you'll work directly with customers and project teams, providing technical direction and innovative solutions to complex problems. This role is crucial for enabling our customers to achieve optimal outcomes from our technology as they embrace cloud principles.

You'll be responsible for:

• Lead the design and integration of Palo Alto Networks security solutions in cloud and virtualized environments
• Enable customer adoption of secure, automated architectures—including GenAI-powered workloads and agentic applications
• Automate deployments using infrastructure-as-code and scripting best practices
• Collaborate with customer stakeholders and internal teams (Consulting Engineers, TAC, Security Architects) to deliver scalable, high-performance solutions
• Demonstrate the value, reliability, and robustness of deployed solutions
• Provide operational handoff and enablement for customer security and DevOps teams
• Document solution designs, reusable templates, and technical artifacts
• Troubleshoot complex challenges across cloud, virtualization, and AI-integrated environments
• Own deliverables independently or while leading small delivery teams

Your Experience

We're looking for someone who is not only technically proficient but also passionate about cloud security and customer success.

Required Qualifications:

• Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, MIS, business, or equivalent education/experience
• Communication: Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts clearly
• Cloud Platforms: Minimum of 3 years of experience with Public Cloud Platforms Architecture and Deployment (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• GenAI/LLMs: Experience with Large Language Models (LLMs) and agentic applications architectures, along with an understanding of the evolving security landscape for AI Applications.
• Virtualization: Architecture and delivery experience with Enterprise and/or Service Provider customers utilizing virtualization environments such as OpenStack, NSX, and Kubernetes
• Security Solutions: Minimum of 2 years of experience building and integrating security solutions in large enterprise environments
• Networking: Strong understanding of Internet protocols and applications.
• Multitasking: Proven ability to effectively manage multiple tasks simultaneously in a fast-paced environment
• Scripting: Experience in Python, Ansible, or Terraform
• Project Leadership: Demonstrated project leadership skills
• Cloud Certification: Associate-level cloud certification in AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Travel up to 15–20% for onsite engagements as required
• Nice to Haves:
  • AWS Certified Solution Architect Professional
  • AWS Advanced Certified Networking Specialty
  • MCSE Cloud Platforms

The Team

Our professional services team is critical to our success and mission. As part of this team, you enable customer success by providing support to clients post-sale. Our dedication to our customers doesn’t stop once they sign – it evolves.

As threats and technology evolve, we stay in step to accomplish our mission. You’ll be involved in implementing new products, transitioning from old products to new, and will fix integrations and critical issues as they are raised. But you don’t wait for them to be raised, you’ll seek them out, too. We fix and identify technical problems, with a pointed focus of providing the best customer support in the industry.

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 $140000/YR - $192500/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

We’re problem solvers that take risks and challenge cybersecurity’s status quo. It’s simple: we can’t 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 accommodations@paloaltonetworks.com.

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.

Is role eligible for Immigration Sponsorship? No. Please note that we will not sponsor applicants for work visas for this position.

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!