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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.
Our vision is a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. 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.
Who We Are
We take our mission of protecting the digital way of life seriously. We are relentless in protecting our customers and we believe that the unique ideas of every member of our team contributes to our collective success. Our values were crowdsourced by employees and are brought to life through each of us everyday - from disruptive innovation and collaboration, to execution. From showing up for each other with integrity to creating an environment where we all feel included.
As a member of our team, you will be shaping the future of cybersecurity. We work fast, value ongoing learning, and we respect each employee as a unique individual. Knowing we all have different needs, our development and personal wellbeing programs are designed to give you choice in how you are supported. This includes our FLEXBenefits wellbeing spending account with over 1,000 eligible items selected by employees, our mental and financial health resources, and our personalized learning opportunities - just to name a few!
Your Career
As a Palo Alto Networks Solutions Architect (SA), you will aim to build influential relationships with key technical decision makers at customers. With those trusted relationships, you are better positioned to uncover new opportunities that help solve customer problems and fuel their business drivers.
We aim to make the role of the SA the highlight of your technical sales career. You will be surrounded by the preeminent cybersecurity experts in the industry who will support your success personally, professionally, and with your customer engagements. Rallying all the Palo Alto Networks resources for the benefit of customer success, you will become the influential cloud native security thought leader.
All this happens by having a culture of psychological safety where we give and accept feedback freely for the goal of continually growing and improving, so we show up as the best versions of ourselves every day.
Your Impact
Required Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications
The Team
The SA is mapped to one or more Sales Specialists. As a Prisma Cloud specialist team, we are part of the Core Palo Alto Networks account team that owns the end-to-end relationship with our customers.
The Prisma Cloud specialist team will plan, collaborate, and coordinate with the Core team for customer engagements and opportunity ownership. For all Prisma Cloud opportunities, the specialist team owns the opportunity end-to-end, while keeping the Core team in the loop throughout.
Compensation Disclosure
The compensation offered for this position will depend on qualifications, experience, and work location. 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 between $198,000/yr to $273,000/yr. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found here.
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 [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.
$200,000 - $230,000 / year
Application Deadline: 9/16/2024
Vertafore is a leading technology company whose innovative software solutions are advancing the insurance industry. Our suite of products provides solutions to our customers that help them better manage their business, boost their productivity and efficiencies, and lower costs while strengthening relationships.
Our mission is to move InsurTech forward by putting people at the heart of the industry. We are leading the way with product innovation, technology partnerships, and focusing on customer success.
Our fast-paced and collaborative environment inspires us to create, think, and challenge each other in ways that make our solutions and our teams better.
We are headquartered in Denver, Colorado, with offices across the U.S., Canada, and India.
We are seeking a dynamic and experienced Vice President of Cybersecurity to lead our efforts in implementing a comprehensive zero-trust security framework, foster a culture of cybersecurity awareness, and manage incident response, risk assessment, mitigation strategies, security architecture design in the cloud and data centers, security governance, compliance, and customer-facing team management.
Over the past 50 years, Vertafore has advanced the entire insurance distribution channel with the best software solutions in the industry. Today, we’re proud to say hundreds of thousands of Vertafore users rely on our solutions to write business faster, reduce costs, and fuel growth by increasing collaboration and streamlining processes. Vertafore leads the industry with secure, cloud-based mobile products that provide superior reporting and analytics, delivering actionable insight— right when customers need it most. We partner with other leading technology companies to deliver comprehensive solutions to improve the way our customers do business and serve their customers.
Insurance is about relationships, and technology should make those relationships stronger. That’s why, at Vertafore, it’s our mission to transform the way the industry operates by putting people at the heart of insurance technology. By focusing on our customers, becoming better every day, and delivering results you can see, we provide the level of trust and security that insurance is all about.
Zero-Trust Security:
Develop and execute a comprehensive zero-trust security strategy to protect our digital infrastructure, data, and assets.
Lead the design and implementation of zero-trust principles, ensuring access controls, network segmentation, and identity verification are integrated into all systems and processes.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure continuous monitoring, anomaly detection, and data protection.
Leadership & Culture Development:
Develop relationships cross-functionally to understand business priorities and barriers, and work together to create plans that can be successfully executed.
Foster a culture of cybersecurity awareness and best practices across the organization.
Provide leadership and mentorship to the cybersecurity team, promoting professional growth and a commitment to excellence.
Champion cybersecurity initiatives at all levels of the company, advocating for security as a core business value.
Incident Response Management:
Enhance and maintain an incident response plan, ensuring rapid and effective responses to security incidents.
Coordinate with internal and external stakeholders to investigate, contain, and remediate security breaches.
Conduct post-incident analysis to identify vulnerabilities and improve incident response procedures.
Risk Assessment and Mitigation:
Identify potential security risks and vulnerabilities within the organization.
Conduct regular risk assessments, including threat modeling and vulnerability assessments.
Develop and implement risk mitigation strategies, ensuring compliance with industry standards and regulations.
Customer-Facing and Team Management:
Interact with customers to understand their security requirements and provide assurance on our security posture.
Manage and lead a customer-facing cybersecurity team, ensuring exceptional service and client satisfaction.
Security Architecture Design in the Cloud and Data Centers:
Assist and direct the design and implementation of secure cloud and data center architectures.
Ensure that all security measures are integrated into cloud-based and on-premises systems.
Collaborate with IT and development teams to align security with business goals.
Project Management:
Plan, execute, and oversee cybersecurity projects, ensuring they are completed on time and within budget.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams and stakeholders to achieve project goals.
Ability to work alongside team members and roll-up sleeves as part of project management.
Security Governance and Compliance:
Enforce compliance with relevant regulations and standards in collaboration with the Compliance team.
Vulnerability Management:
Ensure best practice external attack surface management (EASM), threat intelligence, metrics, and vulnerability scanning are executed.
Required Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications
Is this role not an exact fit for you? Keep an eye on our Careers Page for other positions!
Vertafore is a drug-free workplace and conducts preemployment drug and background screenings.
The selected candidate must be legally authorized to work in the United States.
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this job. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all the job responsibilities, duties, skill, or working conditions. In addition, this document does not create an employment contract, implied or otherwise, other than an "at will" relationship.
Vertafore strongly supports equal employment opportunity for all applicants regardless of race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, marital status, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, sexual orientation, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by state or federal law.
We do not accept resumes from agencies, headhunters, or other suppliers who have not signed a formal agreement with us.
Vertafore is a Flexible First working environment which allows team members to work from home as often as you’d like, while using our offices as a place for collaboration, community, and teambuilding. There are times you may be asked to come into an office and/or travel for specific meetings for a specific business purpose and this varies by job responsibilities.
Wabtec Corporation is a leading global provider of equipment, systems, digital solutions and value-added services for freight and transit rail. Drawing on nearly four centuries of collective experience across Wabtec, GE Transportation and Faiveley Transport, the company has unmatched digital expertise, technological innovation, and world-class manufacturing and services, enabling the digital-rail-and-transit ecosystems. Wabtec is focused on performance that drives progress, creating transportation solutions that move and improve the world. Wabtec has approximately 27,000 employees in facilities throughout the world. Visit the company’s new website at: http://www.WabtecCorp.com.
It’s not just about your career… or your job title…it’s about who you are and the impact you are going to make on the world. Do you want to go into uncharted waters…do things that haven’t been done to make yours and someone else's life better? Wabtec has been doing that for decades and we will continue to do so! Through our people, leadership development, services, technology and scale, Wabtec delivers better outcomes for global customers by speaking the language of industry.
Who will you be working with?
Our best-in-class Enterprise Information Security team has overarching responsibility for cyber security across our global Wabtec Enterprise. You will drive the strategy and define requirements to protect company assets and businesses.
How will you make a difference?
As a member of our IT leadership staff, Wabtec is looking for an individual to run a best-in-class Cyber Security & Risk function. The VP – Chief Information Security Officer reports directly to the CIO and is responsible for establishing and maintaining Wabtec’s enterprise information security policy and strategy, ensuring availability, integrity and confidentiality of customer, business partner, employee and business information. This position leads a global team that oversees the development, implementations, and enforcement of several key security domains including Security Operations, Application Security, Security Architecture, and Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC). The right leader for this job will be passionate about security, both enterprise and product, and takes pride in developing people and process.
Required Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications
Relocation assistance may be provided if eligibility requirements are met.
Wabtec Corporation is committed to taking on the world’s toughest challenges. In order to fulfill that commitment we rely on a culture of leadership, diversity and inclusiveness. We aim to employ the world’s brightest minds to help us create a limitless source of ideas and opportunities. We believe in hiring talented people of varied backgrounds, experiences and styles…people like you! Wabtec Corporation is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or expression, or protected Veteran status. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.