Director - Campus and Cloud Networking - job 1 of 2

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!

At Palo Alto Networks, we believe in the power of collaboration and value in-person interactions. This is why our employees generally work full time from our office with flexibility offered where needed. This setup fosters casual conversations, problem-solving, and trusted relationships. Our goal is to create an environment where we all win with precision.

Your Career

We are looking for a dynamic and highly technical Director of Cloud and Campus Networking to join our fast-paced, high-growth organization. This hands-on leadership role requires a strong leader with expertise in cloud networking, campus infrastructure, and people management. The ideal candidate will drive the architecture, strategy, and operational execution of all networking and cloud initiatives across the organization. This individual will lead a team of engineers and collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to deliver robust, scalable, and secure networking solutions.

Your Impact

• Provide Cloud and Campus Network engineering and operational leadership in close partnership with SRE and Platform teams
• Ability to hire and retain a world-class and diverse engineering teams
• Build and lead a Networking Product Engineering organization that owns the architecture and deployment of Cloud and Campus Networking products
• Working closely with SRE and Platform teams to ensure best-in-class availability and Infra-as-code capabilities of Cloud & Campus Networks
• Own definitions of service monitoring to ensure uptime and performance, including synthetic, real user, system, application performance, dashboards etc.
• Define, measure, and meet key Service Level Objectives including availability, performance, level of automation, incidents and chronic problems 
• Drive a results-oriented culture with a strong focus on execution, quality, and speed
• Recognize process and product gaps early and able to drive changes to achieve better outcomes

Your Experience 

• BA/BS degree in Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent practical experience or equivalent military experience required
• 12+ years of strong hands-on technical experience including 5+ years spent in technical management leading teams
• Extensive experience on architecture design of large scale data platforms, machine learning, analytics, and data-drive applications
• Experience building, scaling, and running production operations 24x7 for heterogeneous applications in a cloud environment
• Proven experience attracting, retaining, and growing top engineering talent across geographically distributed teams
• Ability to nurture and support a strong operations culture: customer/service focus excellent technology; high quality implementations; self-motivated innovation and problem-solving
• Demonstrated ability of establishing and maintaining metrics-based process improvement
• Demonstrated ability to develop strong partnerships with those outside of your immediate organization
• Experience in building and managing strong technical teams

Required Technologies:

Cloud Networking:

• AWS (Amazon Web Services) and/or Azure networking (VPC, VPN, Direct Connect, Peering)
• Google Cloud Platform (GCP) networking concepts
• SD-WAN (Software-Defined Wide Area Networking)
• Network Load Balancing (NLB)
• Cloud Security (VPC security groups, IAM policies, Cloud Firewall)
• Cloud Automation and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation)

Campus Networking:

• Routing and Switching (Cisco, Juniper, Arista, or similar)
• Wireless Networking (Wi-Fi 6, Wi-Fi 5, Wi-Fi controllers, access points)
• Network Security (Firewalls, VPN, Network Access Control (NAC), IDS/IPS)
• Software-Defined Networking (SDN)
• LAN/WAN Architecture and Design
• Network Monitoring and Management Tools (SolarWinds, Wireshark, etc.)

Additional Skills:

• High Availability Networking (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) planning
• Data Center Networking (VLAN, STP, BGP, OSPF)
• Automation/Scripting (Python, Ansible, Bash, etc.)
• Virtualization (VMware NSX, Hyper-V)
• Network Performance Monitoring (SNMP, NetFlow)

The Team

Working at a high-tech cybersecurity company within Information Technology is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. You’ll join the brightest minds in technology, creating, building, and supporting tools and enabling our global teams on the front line of defense against cyberattacks.

We’re connected by one mission but driven by the impact of that mission and what it means to protect our way of life in the digital age. Join a dynamic and fast-paced team of people who feel excited by the prospect of a challenge and feel a thrill at resolving technical gaps that inhibit productivity.

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/commissioned roles) is expected to be between $224000/YR - $318000/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.