Security Engineer- Focused Services (Cortex Cloud)

As a Security Engineer, you will work directly with customers to resolve complex post-sales issues, requiring in-depth evaluation of various factors. You will apply critical thinking to understand technical methods and evaluation criteria, networking with key contacts and detailing difficult technical issues to both technical and non-technical professionals. You will participate in technical discussions with cross-functional teams, providing fast and thoughtful technical assistance in high-pressure situations to keep client environments secure.

Must Have

• Provide on-site support, deployment, implementation, knowledge transfer, configurations, troubleshooting, and best practices to customers.
• Use fault isolation and root cause analysis skills to diagnose and solve complicated technical issues.
• Provide post-sales technical support, managing support cases to ensure timely resolution and follow-ups.
• Reproduce customer issues and qualify critical issues.
• Build a positive customer experience by working closely with Development, Sales, Quality Assurance, and Marketing.
• 5+ years of hands-on technical knowledge in support, troubleshooting, and customer-facing environments.
• Experience as a Professional Services engineer, handling deployment, implementation, and integration projects.
• Solid understanding of cloud infrastructure, security processes, and core concepts across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
• Strong knowledge of operating systems, virtual machines, and containers.
• Solid understanding of networking fundamentals: TCP/IP, DNS, IP routing, and security protocols/procedures (HTTP/HTTPS, IPSec, NAT).
• Experience with containers and orchestrators (Openshift, Kubernetes, Docker), CI/CD pipelines, Terraform, Ansible, container registries, serverless environments.
• Basic to intermediate Linux skills, including filesystem navigation, user and permission management, log analysis, networking commands (curl, wget, tcpdump), system monitoring, and basic shell scripting.
• Familiarity with scripting and configuration formats: Python, JSON, YAML, and Bash.
• Strong consulting, project management, time management, and organizational skills.
• Proven ability to act as a trusted advisor, delivering business value and interacting effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Full professional fluency (written and verbal) in both English and Hebrew.
• Strong problem-solving, critical thinking, teamwork, and relationship-building abilities.

Good to Have

• Prior experience with IDF computer units.
• Active Israeli MOD security clearance.
• Prior experience in similar vendor Technical Support Centers.
• Knowledge of CNAPP, CSPM, cloud security certifications, or cloud compliance tools.
• SaaS experience, CI/CD processes, and Infrastructure as Code familiarity.

Perks & Benefits

• FLEXBenefits wellbeing spending account with over 1,000 eligible items.
• Mental and financial health resources.
• Personalized learning opportunities.
• Reasonable accommodations for all qualified individuals with a disability.
• Equal opportunity employer.

Your Career

You will work firsthand with our valued customers to address their complex post-sales concerns where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of many factors. You’re a critical thinker in understanding the methods, techniques, and evaluation criteria for obtaining results. You’ll enjoy networking with key contacts outside your own area of expertise, with a strong capability of detailing difficult technical issues to both non-technical and technical professionals.

You will regularly participate in technical discussions with multi-functional teams, creating an environment of transparency that ultimately leads to better products, better working environments, and better cybersecurity. Your quick thinking and support to our clients provides the fast assistance they need to keep their environments secure – which means you’ll need to move quickly, thoughtfully, and provide technical assistance as needed (often, in high pressure situations).

Your Impact

• Provide customers on-site support, deployment and implementation, knowledge transfer, configurations, troubleshooting, and standard practices to customers via phone, e-mail, and web.
• Use fault isolation and root cause analysis skills to diagnose and solve complicated technical issues.
• Provide post sales technical support, while handling support cases to ensure issues are recorded, tracked, resolved, and follow-ups finished in a timely manner.
• Work to reproduce customer issues and qualify critical issues.
• Publish Technical Support Bulletins and other user documentation in the Knowledge Base.
• Build a positive customer experience by working closely with Development, Sales, Quality Assurance, and Marketing
• Responsible for reviewing user documentation for training materials, technical marketing collateral, manuals, problem solving guides, etc.
• Provide on-call support 24x7 on an as-needed basis, including travel to customer sites for critical situations to expedite resolution.
• Work shoulder to shoulder with the Sales and Sales Engineering Teams.

Qualifications

Your Experience

• 5+ years of hands-on technical knowledge in support, troubleshooting, and customer-facing environments.
• Experience as a Professional Services engineer, handling deployment, implementation, and integration projects for customers.
• Solid understanding of cloud infrastructure, security processes, and core concepts across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
• Strong knowledge of operating systems, virtual machines, and containers.
• Solid understanding of networking fundamentals: TCP/IP, DNS, IP routing, and security protocols/procedures (HTTP/HTTPS, IPSec, NAT).
• Experience with containers and orchestrators (Openshift, Kubernetes, Docker), CI/CD pipelines, Terraform, Ansible, container registries, serverless environments.
• Basic to intermediate Linux skills, including filesystem navigation, user and permission management, log analysis, networking commands (curl, wget, tcpdump), system monitoring, and basic shell scripting.
• Familiarity with scripting and configuration formats: Python, JSON, YAML, and Bash.
• Strong consulting, project management, time management, and organizational skills.
• Proven ability to act as a trusted advisor, delivering business value and interacting effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Full professional fluency (written and verbal) in both English and Hebrew.
• Strong problem-solving, critical thinking, teamwork, and relationship-building abilities.
• Prior experience with IDF computer units - a plus.
• Active Israeli MOD security clearance - a plus.

Bonus Skills

• Prior experience in similar vendor Technical Support Centers.
• Knowledge of CNAPP, CSPM, cloud security certifications, or cloud compliance tools.
• SaaS experience, CI/CD processes, and Infrastructure as Code familiarity.

Additional Information

The Team

Our technical support team is essential to our success and mission. As part of this team, you enable customer success by providing support to clients after they have purchased our products. Our dedication to our customers doesn’t stop once they sign – it just evolves. Our technical team provides behind-the-scenes support to meet our customer’s needs. As threats and technology evolve, we stay in step to accomplish our mission. You’ll be involved in implementing new products, transitioning from old products to new, and will fix integrations and critical issues as they are raised – in fact, you’ll seek them out to ensure our clients are safely supported. We fix and identify technical problems, with a pointed focus of providing the best customer support in the industry.

We’re a fast-growing, immensely successful organization because of our people and products (built and supported by our people). We work the frontlines against cyberthreats and attacks, protecting every day transactions in the digital environment. It means we’re good at scaling quickly to new threats, get fulfillment from resolving new problems, and think about things just plain differently.

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Our Commitment

We’re problem solvers that take risks and challenge cybersecurity’s status quo. It’s simple: we can’t accomplish our mission without diverse teams innovating, 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 accommodations@paloaltonetworks.com.

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.