Solutions Consultant - SLED

Position: Solutions Consultant 2 - SLED
Our Mission 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.

Who We Are 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.

Job Summary

The Role The Solutions Consultant is the evolution of the traditional Sales Engineering role. This role aligns with how we best serve our customers in understanding their environment, providing solution guidance, and ensuring value realization in their investment with Palo Alto Networks.

As a Solutions Consultant, you drive technical leadership and guide customers through their security transformation journeys. You play a key role in defining technical solutions that secure a customer’s key business imperatives. Crucially, you take end-to-end technical ownership of your accounts, ensuring solution fit, deployment quality, adoption, and ongoing technical health throughout the customer lifecycle. You evangelize our industry leadership in on-prem, cloud, and security operations services, establishing Palo Alto Networks as your customer’s cybersecurity partner of choice.

Your Impact Curiosity is core to the Solutions Consultant role, and you see complex problems as opportunities to learn and deliver innovative solutions! Your impact is defined by taking continuous ownership across the customer journey and execution of the following:

Meeting and exceeding sales quotas by building and implementing strategic, technical account plans that target complex, multi-threaded sales engagements involving senior executive stakeholders, technical buyers, and procurement teams. Conducting advanced discovery using analytical thinking and technical expertise to understand, articulate, and align the technical and operational priorities of your prospects and customers.

Building and leveraging C-level relationships (CIO, CISO, CSO) to establish Palo Alto Networks as a trusted strategic partner and drive a security architecture transformation roadmap.

Using an understanding of key customer business requirements to position, demonstrate, and create high-level designs across the entire PANW portfolio solutions to create business value for large, complex enterprises, typically with multi-billion-dollar revenue and global or multi-regional operations. Leading successful complex technical validation efforts based on advanced best practices tailored to customer environments to ensure a technical win in assigned and strategic opportunities.

Promoting broad, integrated solutions that include Palo Alto Networks technologies and collaborating with professional services to drive expanded customer outcomes and ensure ongoing platform adoption. Managing day-to-day technical ownership and serving as the…