Senior Technical Product Manager, Public Cloud Security

Our Mission

At Palo Alto Networks® everything starts and ends with our mission:

Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.

We have the vision of a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. These aren’t easy goals to accomplish – but we’re not here for easy. We’re here for better. We are a company built on the foundation of challenging and disrupting the way things are done, and we’re looking for innovators who are as committed to shaping the future of cybersecurity as we are.

Disruption is at the core of our technology and on our way of work to meet the needs of our employees now and in the future through FLEXWORK, our approach to how we work. We’re changing the nature of work from benefits to learning, location to leadership, we’ve rethought and recreated every aspect of the employee experience at Palo Alto Networks. And because it FLEXes around each individual employee based on their individual choices, employees are empowered to push boundaries and help us all evolve, together.

Your Career

With the recent acquisition of leading companies in this space – RedLock, TwistLock, Puresec, and Aporeto. Palo Alto Networks is the market leader in the cloud security space.

The Technical Product Manager at Palo Alto Networks is focused on Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM), container and application security. You will play a key role in providing detailed technical information to our sales, marketing and product management teams to help position Palo Alto Networks against key competitors. 

The Prisma Cloud security team is responsible for building a cloud security platform that protects data, workloads, and infrastructure for some of the largest enterprise customers in the world. We help the customers in their journey to the public cloud by ensuring they have the best in class protection for their cloud workloads. 

In this role, you will work with cutting edge technology, such as AWS, Azure and GCP Native Security services, alongside other commonly used services such as AWS Lambda, Azure functions, AWS Fargate, Docker, and Kubernetes and with other cloud services.

The job requires approximately 10 percent of travel.

Your Impact

• You will analyze competitors in CSPM and Shift-left space, synthesize & document information and enable sales teams

• Work with sales, marketing, product management, and customers to research and identify key differences and advantages of the Prisma Cloud Security Posture Management, & Shift-left module against the core competitors

• Consult with customers, develop & deliver technical training for sales, systems engineering and marketing

• Aggregate and analyze information to form an opinion and provide actionable insights

• Write and create high-quality customer-facing, partner-facing, and sales facing collateral and presentations

• Participate in sales enablement and help sales close deals by providing technical differentiators

• Create and maintain a lab to run setup for cloud security products to evaluate and compare use cases

• Work closely with product management and provide product feedback for future development

Your Experience

• Preferably 10+ years' of cybersecurity experience or 4+ years' in sales/systems engineering, technical marketing or DevOps engineering in cloud security (shift-left, Cloud Security Posture Management or Cloud Workload Protection)

• Hands-on public cloud experience, preferably Azure

• CI/CD tools, Infrastructure as Code and scripting (Python etc.) are an advantage

• Excellent project organisation skills, ability to drive complex projects with attention to detail and hit deadlines

• Competitive intelligence with ability to keep track of multiple competitors simultaneously

• Passionate about learning new technologies, experiment with products and contribute cross-functionally

• Good people skills with ability to work in testing customer situations

• Public cloud certifications (AWS Architect, GCP or Azure) are preferred

Our Commitment

We’re trailblazers that dream big, take risks, and challenge cybersecurity’s status quo. It’s simple: we can’t accomplish our mission without diverse teams innovating, together.

Palo Alto Networks is evolving and changing the nature of work to meet the needs of our employees now and in the future through FLEXWORK, our approach to how we work. From benefits to learning, location to leadership, we’ve rethought and recreated every aspect of the employee experience at Palo Alto Networks. And because it FLEXes around each individual employee based on their individual choices, employees are empowered to push boundaries and help us all evolve, together.

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 [email protected].

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.

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