Channel Systems Engineer

Your Career

As a Channel Systems Engineer covering a regional territory your role will involve providing leadership technical expertise and guidance to partners on their journey towards becoming key Palo Alto Networks partners. You will work as a technical leader with channel partners providing technical expertise to support the technical sales and implementation of company products and solutions. This role involves collaborating with partners training them on technical aspects providing presales technical assistance and ensuring successful integration and postsales support. The Channel Systems Engineer will act as a trusted advisor driving growth within the region by fostering strong relationships with channel partners and ensuring they have the knowledge and tools needed to succeed. We are working to create partner experts for life. 

Your Impact

• Serve as the primary technical leader for channel partners within the assigned region
• Collaborate with focus partners in the territory to develop comprehensive business plans that align to strategic objectives
• Provide technical presales support to partners including product demonstrations solution architecture design and configuration assistance
• Collaborate with your sales peers to identify opportunities for new partnerships and expand existing ones
• Plan and drive technical training sessions for partners ensuring they are proficient in the companys products solutions and integration processes
• Support channel partners with technical issues during and after product implementation acting as a liaison between them and the companys technical support teams
• Design and deliver customized solutions based on partner and customer needs ensuring alignment with company standards and best practices
• Stay updated on product roadmaps new technologies and industry trends to better assist partners in growing their business
• Assist in the development and deployment of channel enablement materials such as technical guides manuals and webinars
• Collaborate with the product management and development teams to provide feedback on product improvements based on partner and customer feedback
• Maintain detailed records of partner interactions sales pipeline and technical support provided reporting progress to management regularly

Qualifications :

Your Experience

• 5 years of experience in Partner Solution Consulting presales engineering or a similar technical role within the technology industry
• Extensive knowledge in at least one of  networking endpoint backup cybersecurity cloud solutions and enterprise IT systems
• Strong understanding of channel sales models and experience working with resellers distributors and other channel partners
• Excellent communication skills both verbal and written with the ability to present complex technical information to nontechnical audiences  
• Handson experience with product installations configurations and troubleshooting
• Ability to work independently and as part of a crossfunctional team managing multiple projects in a fastpaced environment
• Strong problemsolving skills and a proactive attitude towards resolving issues
• Willingness to travel within the assigned region to support partners and attend events as necessary
• Proven track record of influencing key stakeholders and gaining buyin for technical solutions

Preferred

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering Information Technology or a related field or equivalent military experience required
• Industry certifications such as CISSP Cisco VMware or cloudrelated certifications

Additional Information :

The Team

Our SE team members work handinhand with large organizations around the world to keep their digital environments protected. We educate inspire and empower our potential clients in their journey to security. 

You are empowered with unmatched systems and tools and a team built on joint success. You wont find someone at Palo Alto Networks that isnt committed to your success with everyone pitching in to assist when it comes to solutions selling learning and development. Our Systems Engineering community is driven by the mission to be our customers cybersecurity partner of choice protecting their digital way of life. 

Our Commitment

Were problem solvers that take risks and challenge cybersecuritys status quo. Its simple: we cant accomplish our mission without diverse teams innovating together.

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Palo 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.

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