Global Solutions Architect - AI and Automation
Palo Alto Networks1 day ago
Remote, United StatesSenior / Staff+
Base Salary
$175k - $241k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the Technical Services automation portfolio, including scripts, PAN-OS and Prisma API integrations, configuration migration and validation tooling, and workflow orchestration.
- Architect and operate production platforms for security and maturity assessments across NGFW, Strata Cloud Manager, Prisma Access, Cloud-Delivered Security Services, and Prisma SD-WAN.
- Design and evaluate multi-agent AI systems, including tools, agent loops, structured outputs, retrieval, refusal handling, and quality evaluation.
- Apply zero-trust architecture, identity-based access, least privilege, encryption, workload segmentation, continuous verification, and telemetry.
- Build full-stack features in TypeScript, Python, and React with authorization, tenant isolation, credential encryption, and audit logging.
- Operate Terraform-managed infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines on multi-region GKE, including supply-chain controls, observability, rollout safety, and incident follow-through.
- Design and maintain agent harnesses, MCP servers, skills, sub-agent roles, hooks, context files, and quality gates for safe coding-agent use.
- Translate business priorities into architecture, roadmaps, and delivered capabilities while reporting progress, risks, ROI, adoption, and AI spend to senior leadership.
- Deliver tooling, enablement, reference architectures, documentation, and service-launch support to Customer Success and Professional Services teams.
- Provide thought leadership on AI and network security, contribute to open-source API SDKs, mentor engineers, and collaborate across Product, Engineering, Sales, Security, and IT.
Requirements
- 8–12 years of professional software development experience, including a full-stack system designed, shipped to production, and owned after launch.
- Expertise across frontend frameworks, backend APIs, relational data modeling and SQL, cloud infrastructure, containers, Kubernetes, infrastructure as code, and CI/CD; working proficiency in TypeScript and Python.
- Experience with application security, OWASP Top 10, secure coding, threat modeling, IAM, OAuth 2.0, OIDC, mTLS, RBAC, secrets and key management, SBOMs, provenance, and secure software supply chains.
- Ability to apply NIST SP 800-207 and the CISA Zero Trust Maturity Model to real systems.
- Network and security engineering experience with routing, segmentation, policy, VPN, SASE, threat prevention, and firewall, SASE, or SD-WAN environments.
- Hands-on experience with LLMs, agents, MCP, coding-agent harnesses, multi-agent workflows, custom skills, hooks, sub-agents, context and memory management, evaluation, guardrails, and cost control.
- Production experience building and operating an LLM-backed application with tool-using agents and evaluating output quality.
- Knowledge of AI security risks and controls, including prompt injection, excessive agency, sensitive data disclosure, insecure tools or MCP servers, RAG data leakage, and model or supply-chain risk.
- Production experience on a major cloud, preferably Google Cloud with GKE, Cloud SQL, IAM, Secret Manager, or KMS, and experience with Terraform or OpenTofu.
- Strong executive communication, technical writing, cross-functional influence, asynchronous collaboration, and experience working with global teams.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or a related technical field.
- Preferred qualifications include PAN-OS, Panorama, Strata Cloud Manager, Prisma Access, PCNSE, Prisma AIRS, AI red teaming, LLM evaluation, Ansible, network Terraform providers, pan-os-python, Google ADK, Claude Agent SDK, MCP server development, Bun, Hono, Zod, Drizzle, Vite, Cortex, multi-region architecture, FinOps, security certifications, open-source maintenance, and small-team leadership.
Benefits
- Remote work arrangement with collaboration across global hybrid teams and time zones.
- Annual base salary range of $175,200.00–$240,900.00, with potential restricted stock units and bonus.
- Employee benefits are available through the company benefits program.
- Reasonable accommodations are available for qualified individuals with disabilities or special needs.
Tech Stack
Categories
Solutions Engineering
About Palo Alto Networks
Palo Alto Networks builds cybersecurity products for enterprises and governments, including next-generation firewalls, cloud security (Prisma Cloud/Prisma Access), and SOC tools (Cortex). It sells subscriptions and appliances with cloud-delivered threat intelligence, securing networks, endpoints, and applications across data centers and public clouds. Founded in 2005 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California, the company is publicly traded on the NYSE under the ticker PANW.