Associate Systems Engineering

Associate Systems Engineer

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. In order to be the cybersecurity partner of choice, we must trailblaze the path and shape the future of our industry. Disruption, Collaboration, Execution, Integrity, and Inclusion. That's why most of our teams work from the office full time, with flexibility when it's needed. Your career as an Associate Systems Engineer will join a cohort of recent college graduates for an immersion into Palo Alto Networks platform, automation, and cybersecurity across network, endpoint, and cloud. This program includes up to 24 months of formal technical instruction with hands-on labs, both group and individual projects, technical study, and professional skills development. As you advance through the program, you will be placed with various sales engineering teams to learn how to support customers during the pre-sales process. While ramping on the Academy development track you will work alongside other SE teams to learn and support the other critical work with customers within the presales process. As part of your development, you will work as a technical advisor in tandem with our sales and channel partners on customer engagements, establishing relationships with customers with the goal of helping them ensure each day is more secure than the one before. Upon completion of the program, you will have gained proven technical and professional skills, shown qualification across multiple certifications, and rotations with senior SEs to take on a field SE position in any number of cities across the US based on business needs. Our SEs are among the best in the cybersecurity industry, with a deep technical understanding of cybersecurity products, integrations, and the critical cyber threats facing our potential customers' environments.

Your impact will include learning the technical aspects and business value of Palo Alto Networks products, developing the skills necessary to propose cybersecurity solutions comprised of Palo Alto Networks products, establishing yourself as a trusted team member to Technical Solutions leadership and colleagues while contributing to sales wins throughout the program, architecting and proposing solutions that address the identified cybersecurity problems in each customer's unique environment, developing presentation skills and understanding of business and technical discovery methods, ensuring ongoing customer success, support, and adoption of cybersecurity solutions, understanding and effectively differentiating against our top competitors, identifying and documenting specific problems with prospective and current customers which can be solved through the deployment of integrated solutions, acting as the customer advocate for any issues that require technical assistance and following up with the customer until the issue is resolved, and continuous self-improvement and learning to maintain technical leadership of applicable technologies (SASE, XDR, public cloud, security, networking, etc.)

Your experience includes a 4-year undergraduate degree, preferably in a business or technical field of study, understanding and effectively presenting complex concepts to technical and non-technical audiences, strong analytical skills to evaluate complex problems and a systematic approach to creating solutions, effective time-management skills and study habits, awareness and desire to learn modern cybersecurity prevention utilizing automation, cloud, endpoint, and network technologies.

For candidates who receive an offer at the posted level, the starting base salary (for non-sales roles) or base salary + commission target (for sales/com-missioned roles) is expected to be the annual range listed below. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. We're trailblazers that dream big, take risks, and challenge cybersecurity's status quo. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for all qualified individuals with a disability. If you require assistance or accommodation due to a disability or special need, please contact us at View email address on click.appcast.io Alto Networks is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity in our workplace, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or other legally protected characteristics.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Is role eligible for Immigration Sponsorship? Please note that we will not sponsor applicants for work visas for this position.