Your CareerAs a Pre-Sales Solution Consultant you are an important member of our technical sales team, identifying complex security challenges in your customers networks and driving solutions with our market-leading security products and services.
You are the technical sales representative of the company and focus on customer satisfaction with all that you do. You and your sales partner own the customer relationship and your goal is to help them detect and prevent advanced cyberattacks and breaches while safely enabling applications by deploying the full Palo Alto Networks platform so that they can confidently pursue network, cloud, and mobile technology initiatives.
Your Impact
- Understand and effectively present our security platform and solutions
- Work closely with Enterprise customers in North India
- 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 and 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, in writing, presentation, and creative problem-solving skills
Your Experience
- BSCS or equivalent or equivalent military experience required and 6+ years of experience as a Pre-Sales Systems Engineer or Solution Consultant or Sales Engineer or Systems Integrator
- Techno-Commercial Pre-sales experience handling solutions around Secops (EDR/XDR, SOAR, SIEM, Threat Management, SOC etc), Network Security (NGFW, IPS/IDS, WAF, DNS security etc,) Cloud Security (CNAP, CWPP, WAAS etc)
- Pre-sales experience handling Enterprise customers in Singapore
- Demonstrable experience with systems installation, configuration, and administration of routers/switches, UNIX/Linux and Windows-based systems (prior Active Directory/LDAP experience desirable)
- Experience emphasizing L2-L4 Networking (L2 Switching architectures including Spanning Tree, IP routing including OSPF and BGP, L4 Load-balancing)
- Industry knowledge of security and network product and technology trends
- Experience selling, demonstrating, installing and/or solving network infrastructure security products
- Extensive domestic travel within the territory is often required, and international travel may be required as necessary
- Experience selling network infrastructure based security appliances including, but not limited to - Firewalls, SSL/IPSec VPNs, Security Proxies and Caches
- Practical experience working with routing and switching products that will be installed adjacent to our appliances
- Strong communication and presentation skills, both written and verbal
- Strong analytical skills, ability to analyze complex multivariate problems and use a systematic approach to gain quick resolution
The Team
Our Solutions Consultant team members work hand-in-hand with large organizations around the world to keep their digital environments protected. We educate, inspire,and empower our potential clients in their journey to transform their security architectures.
You are empowered with unmatched systems and tools and a team built on joint success. 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. Our Solutions Consulting community is driven by the mission to be our customers cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting their digital way of life.
