Network Security & SASE Architect – Palo Alto Networks Senior Manager

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We Are Accenture Security helps organizations prepare, protect, detect, respond and recover along all points of the security lifecycle. Cybersecurity challenges are different for every business in every industry. Leveraging our global resources and advanced technologies, we create integrated, turnkey solutions tailored to our clients’ needs across their entire value chain. Whether we’re defending against known cyberattacks, detecting and responding to the unknown, or running an entire security operations center, we will help companies build cyber resilience to grow with confidence.

Our team of the security sector’s brightest people use the coolest tech to out-hack the hackers and help clients build resilience from within. We blend risk strategy, digital identity, cyber defense, application security and managed service solutions to rethink the entire security lifecycle.

You Are Security and Risk professionals develop and deliver solutions that protect enterprise systems, applications and data by establishing policies, practices and tools that prevent unauthorized access, use, disclosure, modification or disruption. A professional at this position level within Accenture has the following responsibilities:

Provides solutions to complex business problems for area(s) of responsibility where analysis of situations requires an in depth knowledge of organizational objectives. Involved in setting strategic direction to establish near term goals for area of responsibility. Interacts with senior management levels at a client and/or within Accenture, which involves negotiating or influencing on significant matters. Has latitude in decision-making and determining objectives and approaches to critical assignments.

Decisions have a lasting impact on area of responsibility with the potential to impact outside area of responsibility. Manages large teams and/or work efforts (if in an individual contributor role) at a client or within Accenture.

We are looking for a Security Professional for our Security practice who is a recognized Palo Alto Networks network security architect. You have personally designed, deployed and troubleshot PAN-OS Next-Generation Firewalls, Prisma Access and Panorama / Strata Cloud Manager at enterprise scale, and you have grown into leading the sale, solutioning and delivery of network security transformation programs. You are equally credible whiteboarding a target-state architecture with a client’s network and security architects, leading a root-cause analysis on a production outage, and presenting the business case to the CISO or CIO.The

Work (Key Responsibilities)
Business leadership and growth

Originate, shape and sell network security, Zero Trust and SASE transformation programs built on Palo Alto Networks; lead proposal development, solution and effort estimation, commercial structuring and orals, and carry sales and delivery targets for your area of responsibility.

Act as the trusted advisor to client CISOs, CIOs and heads of network and security; translate network security architecture choices into business outcomes, risk reduction and cost cases that executives can act on.

Build and grow Accenture’s…