Systems Engineer - Miami

Your Career 

As a Systems Engineer, you will run and drive sales engagements into a set of accounts. You will play a key role in navigating complex accounts in order to generate and deliver winning proposals, contract bids, statements of work, and RFI/RFP responses. It is business-critical to meet and exceed sales quotas by building and implementing strategic account plans targeting enterprise-wide deployments of the Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Security Platform.

Your role is one of technical guidance – working with your account manager to build integrated solutions for our client’s environments. With your colleagues, you will displace competing technologies, and build market share within your targeted list of major accounts, and most importantly, help your client sleep at night as our product integrates to build secure digital transactions.

Your Impact

• Understand and effectively present our security platform and solutions
• Create and deliver compelling demonstrations of Palo Alto Networks products and solutions
• Educate customers and partners on the modern network security landscape
• Identify and qualify new opportunities and support technical pre-sales activities to opportunity closure
• Expand the Palo Alto Networks install base within existing accounts
• Enable and leverage channel partners and work successfully in a channel-driven sales model
• Create evaluation test plans with customers and lead the evaluation process to a successful conclusion
• Differentiate from industry technologies and solution
• Assist customers through the support escalation process
• Continuous self-improvement and learning to maintain current technical knowledge, participate in technical communities of interest
• Identify problems in customer environments; effectively engages customers at the technical field and technical management levels
• Effective in customer-facing engagement, and in writing, presentation, and creative problem-solving skills

Your Experience 

• 5+ years of experience as a successful pre-sales SE, systems integrator, or equivalent experience
• BS in Computer Science or equivalent
• Working knowledge of Palo Alto Networks products, with a focus on Next-Generation Firewall and some comparative technologies; Continuous technical development
• Experience with systems installation, configuration and administration of routers/switches, UNIX/Linux, and Windows-based systems
• Experience that emphasizes L2-L4 Networks (L2 switching architectures including Spanning Tree, IP routing that includes OSPF and BGP, and L4 Load balancing)
• Understand and effectively present our security platform to technical and non-technical audiences
• Strong analytical skills to evaluate complex multivariate problems and find a systematic approach to gain a quick resolution, often under duress
• Mature and effective time-management skills
• Prior experience selling network infrastructure-based security appliances, including but not limited to: Firewalls, SSL/IPSec VPNs, Security Proxies and Caches
•  Familiarity working with Channel partners and understanding of a channel-centric market approach
• Previous work in the enterprise networking security space
• Experience and knowledge of modern network threats and malware, network forensics, automation tools and technologies, and endpoint security technologies
•  Significant industry certifications (SANS, CISSP, CCIE, etc)

The Team

As part of our Systems Engineering team, you’ll support the sales team with technical expertise and guidance when establishing trust with key clients. You won’t find someone at Palo Alto Networks that isn’t committed to your success – with everyone pitching in to assist when it comes to solutions selling, learning, and development. As a member of our systems engineering team, you are motivated by a solutions-focused sales environment and find fulfillment in working with clients to resolve incredible complex cyberthreats. 

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.

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.