Palo Alto Networks
Consulting Engineer
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Consulting Engineer
Consulting Engineer at Palo Alto Networks®
Our Mission
At Palo Alto Networks®, we’re united by a shared mission—to protect our digital way of life. We thrive at the intersection of innovation and impact, solving real-world problems with cutting-edge technology and bold thinking. Here, everyone has a voice, and every idea counts. If you’re ready to do the most meaningful work of your career alongside people who are just as passionate as you are, you’re in the right place.
Who We Are
In order to be the cybersecurity partner of choice, we must trailblaze the path and shape the future of our industry. This is something our employees work at each day, defined by our values: Disruption, Collaboration, Execution, Integrity, and Inclusion. We weave AI into the fabric of everything we do and use it to augment the impact every individual can have. If you are passionate about solving real-world problems and ideating beside the best and the brightest, we invite you to join us!
This role is remote, but distance is no barrier to impact. Our hybrid teams collaborate across geographies to solve big problems, stay close to our customers, and grow together. You will be part of a culture that values trust, accountability, and shared success; where your work truly matters.
Job Summary
Your Career
As a Consulting Engineer at Palo Alto Networks, you’ll join the global SME team for secure mobile and network infrastructure. This role combines:
- Hands-on skills with customer-facing technical advisory
- Collaboration with EMEA sales and channel teams to lead business-centric security conversations with Service Providers and enterprises
- Focus on mobile core, edge, and critical infrastructure environments
- Pioneering support for the next generation of AI security, including:
- Runtime protection for AI applications *
- Defense against AI-driven threats
For the technical execution side, you will:
- Drive Proof-of-Concepts (PoCs), lab evaluations, and reference architectures
- Validate these solutions in customer environments
For the consultative side, you’ll connect this work to tangible business outcomes for customers:
- Reduced risk
- Regulatory alignment
- New monetization opportunities
- Platform consolidation cost savings
Your Impact
- Run business-critical security conversations and tailored demos that differentiate Palo Alto Networks from progenitors and legacy solutions
- Engage all levels of the customer organization
- From operations teams to executive leadership (C-level and SVP transparency)
- Serve as the technical point of contact for RFIs, RFPs, and architectural deep dives across the EMEA region
- Discover and qualify new opportunities with:
- EMEA Service Providers
- Enterprises
- Expand existing accounts and equip channel partners for success in a channel-led strategy
- Drive PoCs, evaluation plans, and lab alignments focused on:
- Mobile networks (4G/5G, cloud-native cores, network slicing)
- Critical infrastructure deployments
- Architect customer solutions and document:
- High-level designs
- Key use cases to ensure effective implementation and value realization
- Act as the EMEA pre-sales Subject Matter Expert for:
- Service Provider mobile core
- Multi-access edge computing
- Enterprise critical infrastructure security
- Support customers through major escalations
- Provide key insights to Product Management and Engineering to inform the roadmap
- Build and execute:
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Internal and partner-facing workshops on:
- Secure mobility
- Critical infrastructure security
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Coaching internal teams and practice specialists
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Represent Palo Alto Networks externally on trends in:
- Secure mobility
- Critical infrastructure security
Through industry events, panels, and technical publications
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Travel across EMEA for:
- Customer meetings
- Executive briefings
- Industry events
Qualifications
Essential
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8+ years of experience as:
- A System Engineer
- A Systems Integrator
- An equivalent technical position
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Deep, hands-on experience with:
- 4G and 5G mobile networks
- All 3GPP network standards affordantly
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Working knowledge of Core Network protocols and reference points:
- Service Provider (virtualized/local) mobile deployments
- Private 5G solutions (regardless of vendor)
- Collaboration with 5G NSA and Standalone deployments
- Cloud-native cores (e.g. OSS/BSS integration)
- Network slicing and layer-2/qos segmentation
- Evaluating interconnect security frameworks
- Roaming and interconnection dynamics
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Networking expertise:
- Service Provider Routing and Switching (MPLS, MPLS-TP, MPLSicc)
- IPv4/IPv6 Addressing and Policy (address management, policy inheritance, v4 peering)
- IPSec (L2/L3 security) to end entities
- Infrastructure segmentation and microsegregation technologies
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Infrastructure security foundation:
- Next-generation firewalls (p/Fys/sec/cCloud)
- SASE architecture patterns for QoS integration
- Wire-level encryption (IPSec/SSL VPN)
- Zero Trust modeling and access enforcement frameworks
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Proven knowledge of public cloud platforms:
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(AWS, Azure, GCP) and their corresponding services (e.g. Workers, VPC, containerized IaaS)
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Cloud-native infrastructure practices from sprint planning to cloud burgers
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Infrastructure-as-Code workflows and DevOps toolchains
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Container orchestration:
- Kubernetes
- OpenShift
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Familiarity with AI/ML security including:
- AI-powered threat detection at runtime
- Runtime protection for application confidence
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Presentation acumen:
- Written and verbal communication aligned to the granularity of engaged audience (executives vs operations teams)
- Strong analytical skills
- Ability to:
- Break down complex multivariate business/technical problems
- Lead resolutions with structured rigor
- Manage under high-stakes pressure
- Ability to:
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Hands-on track record of presenting to senior leadership
- C-level and SVP audiences on complex technical strategies
- Demonstrates unwavering credibility and dynamic confidence
- Ability to:
- Respond with frames to resuscitation questions
- Articulate business outcomes from internal Rainer
- Ability to:
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Commitment to EMEA-based operations
- Willingness and agility to travel across EMEA for customer engagements and executive events
Our Commitment
We’re trailblazers who challenge the status quo and demand big change in cybersecurity. Our mission? Diverse teams innovate—the future needs them.
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 any other legally protected characteristic.
Accommodations available: We offer reasonable accommodations for individuals with a disability. If you require assistance or accommodation, please contact accommodations@paloaltonetworks.com.
Note: This role is not eligible for immigration sponsorship and will not sponsor applicants for work visas. Due to line-item US immigration policy, sponsorship is currently restricted for this position.
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