Professional Services Staff Consultant

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.

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 and is 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.

The Professional Services Consultant for Cloud Security delivers hands-on architecture, deployment, integration, and configuration services for Palo Alto Networks virtualized security platforms across public, private, and hybrid cloud environments. Acting as a Subject Matter Expert (SME), the consultant collaborates directly with customer engineering teams and executive stakeholders to provide technical direction, architectural guidance, and automated deployment solutions. This role requires deep, hands-on expertise in cloud-native security, network automation, and the full Palo Alto Networks product ecosystem.

• Architect & Deploy: Lead the end-to-end design, deployment, and configuration of Palo Alto Networks virtualized appliances (VM-Series, CN-Series, Prisma Cloud) across AWS, Azure, GCP, and private cloud infrastructures.
• Automate Security Workflows: Develop infrastructure-as-code (IaC) and automation scripts to streamline deployment, scaling, and operational management.
• Advise Stakeholders: Serve as the technical authority on client project teams, translating complex enterprise requirements into scalable, secure cloud network architectures.
• Drive Project Deliverables: Manage technical milestones against statements of work (SOW), ensuring all deployments, testing, and handoffs are completed on schedule and to specification.
• Collaborate & Escalate: Partner with Consulting Engineers on Dev Ops and architectural best practices, and liaise with Palo Alto Networks TAC to rapidly resolve tier-3/tier-4 escalation issues.
• Document & Operationalize: Produce comprehensive architecture diagrams, runbooks, and handover documentation to transition completed environments seamlessly to customer operational teams.
• Lead Technical Engagements: Direct technical work streams independently or lead distributed delivery teams depending on project scale and complexity.
• Client Engagement: Travel 15-20% to client sites for onsite deployment, workshops, and architectural reviews as defined by project requirements.

• Minimum 6 years of experience designing, deploying, and managing enterprise workloads across public cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP, or OCI).
• Proven track record architecting solutions in enterprise or service provider environments utilizing VMware NSX, Open Stack, Docker, and Kubernetes.
• Minimum 2 years of hands-on experience integrating network security solutions within large-scalable distributed architectures, alongside a strong foundational…