Manager, Consulting Services - Prisma Cloud

Job Description

In this role, you will manage a team of Professional Services Consultants in your assigned territory supporting our Prisma Cloud portfolio of security applications. You will be responsible to drive professional services business, provide management oversight to your team and all ongoing engagements, including recruiting, managing, directing and inspiring a team with a diverse set of skills and backgrounds You will ensure the delivery of Palo Alto Networks solutions, exceeding expectations and driving high levels of customer engagement. You will also work closely with sales to ensure customer satisfaction, build relationships with all customers in your territory and ensure customer success and referenceability.

• Provide strategic direction and input to the technical development of Professional Services Consultants reporting to you
• This position requires a background in software engineering, public cloud experience and people management.
• Manage the activities of the team such as hiring, development, promotions, time off, expense reports, development growth, training, and corrective actions
• Build relationships with customers who have long term engagements to ensure that the timelines are being met, feedback on how the consultants are performing, escalations, etc.
• Ensure customer requirements are met
• Drive new business by utilizing Professional Services capabilities and offerings
• Ensure all customer engagements are successful
• Provide status to the Services leadership team on all major activities, issues, escalations, etc.
• Participate in the development and execution of strategic direction and input to the technical development of the Professional Services Consultants
• ​​​​​​​25%+% travel may be required (subject to public travel restrictions)

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Qualifications

• Knowledge of cybersecurity technologies
• Experience managing teams of 10+ multi-disciplined, technical resources
• Experience/Knowledge Public Cloud-related technologies - Containers, Kubernetes, Microservices, SaaS, PaaS
• Expertise in AWS, Azure and/or GCP
• Bonus points for experience with Google Cloud Computing (GCP) and its related services
• Base knowledge of Palo Alto Prisma Cloud
• Skilled in key business systems - SFDC, Clarizen, G-Suite preferred
• Strong knowledge of Internet security concepts and products
• Understand Critical Security Controls, Incident Response practices, and Security Operations Center environments
• The ability to solve problems creatively and develop and manage business solutions for complex problems.
• Demonstrated leadership and team-building capabilities
• Demonstrated experience meeting revenue and customer satisfaction targets
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Certifications such as CISSP and/or others like PMP

Additional Information

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 won’t wait for them to be raised, you’ll seek them out, too. We fix and identify technical problems, with a pointed focus on providing the best customer support in the industry.

For Prisma Cloud you will be responsible for supporting customers to protect data, workloads, and infrastructure for some of the largest enterprise customers in the world. We help the customers in their transitional journey to the cloud by ensuring they have the best in class protection. The cloud market has been growing at a rapid rate for the last few years. As more and more enterprises use a public cloud in accessing and delivering their software applications, there is an insatiable demand for securing workloads in the public cloud.

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 [emailprotected]

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,