Professional Services Staff Consultant

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 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.

Your Impact :

• 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 DevOps 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 workstreams 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.

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