Cortex Solutions Architect

Company Description
**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.

FLEXWORK is an employee-centric reimagining of how we work. We built FLEXWORK based on employee feedback - it is about flexibility, trust, and choice whenever possible. It’s been a journey of disruption that has yielded the best of our values. We offer as much flexibility as possible, and choices that enable you to be most productive, including benefits that meet your needs and learning opportunities that you feel passionate about.

**Job Description**:
**Your Career**

As a Palo Alto Networks Cortex Solutions Architect, you will be the expert for the broader Cortex portfolio within our offerings. Your portfolio includes Cortex XDR (Investigation and Response) and Cortex XSIAM.

The Cortex Solutions Architect is the interface between business and technology. Working closely both internally - with product and engineering to share feedback from the field, and externally - with our prospects and customers to understand their business needs and to design technical solutions that take the best advantage of the Cortex platform. With your colleagues, you will displace competing technologies and build market share - most importantly, help your client sleep at night as our product integrates to build secure digital transactions.

We expect office-based employees to be in the office four days per week, with one day working from where they choose. We believe being together facilitates casual conversations and those magic moments where we can work on issues and ideas informally. These moments build capability and deepen trusted relationships and allow our people to feel safe in taking risks and being disruptive. Like so many companies, we are working through the details and things could change. but in general if a role is deemed office-based we want our teams to be together four days per week.

**Your Impact**
- Drive complex deals in the pre-sale stage, alongside sales engineers and sales reps
- Support the technical field sales engineer on POCs (proof of concept) - assist with the pre-sales process by answering technical questions, conducting POC evaluations, and working with engineering to bridge any gaps
- Work closely with product and engineering to debug and correct challenges encountered during POCs
- Training of the field sales engineers to present new features, product roadmap, new improvements, and sprint summary
- Create new demo scenarios and use cases
- Discuss complex platform architectures to prospects

**Qualifications**:
**Your Experience**
- Deep experience with security incident response, both IR tools and IR workflow process or SOC operational processes
- Strong technical hands-on experience (4+ years) with SIEM / EDR
- Strong practical experiences with threat hunting, malware, exploits and be able to demonstrate simulation of cyber attacks
- Experience installing, configuring and integrating a complex Security environment
- Experience with Security Analytics or Threat Intel is a plus
- Deep understanding of Unix/Linux and Windows operating systems and scripting skill in Python/JavaScript/PowerShell is an advantage
- Strong problem finding and solving skills, ability to analyze complex multivariate problems and use a systematic approach to gain quick resolution
- 4+ years of experience in a customer facing role
- Strong English language skills, both oral and written - Ability to confidently present with impact to an audience in person and remotely
- A team player - ability to share knowledge openly, interact with integrity, embrace diversity
- A Self-Starter, self-motivated and a quick learner with the ability to embrace change - the Cortex portfolio is always evolving and as a technical Specialist your expertise must be at the leading edge

Additional Information
**The Team**

Palo Alto Networks has brought technology to market that is reshaping the cybersecurity threat and protection landscape. Our ability to protect digital transactions is limited only by our ability to establish relationships with our potential customers and help them understand how our products can protect their environments.

This is where our solution architect (SA) teams come in. Our SA team members work together with large organizations to keep their digital information safe. Our passionate systems engineering teams educate, inspire, and empower our potential clients.

**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 innovatin