SOC Security Engineer (InfoSec)

Company Description

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.

Our Approach to Work

We lead with flexibility and choice in all of our people programs. We have disrupted the traditional view that all employees have the same needs and wants. We offer personalization and offer our employees the opportunity to choose what works best for them as often as possible - from your wellbeing support to your growth and development, and beyond!

At Palo Alto Networks, we believe in the power of collaboration and value in-person interactions. This is why our employees generally work from the office three days per week, leaving two days for choice and flexibility to work where you feel most effective. This setup fosters casual conversations, problem-solving, and trusted relationships. While details may evolve, our goal is to create an environment where innovation thrives, with office-based teams coming together three days a week to collaborate and thrive, together!

Job Description

Your Career 

Palo Alto Networks Information Security team is looking for a SOC Security Engineer to join the Global Security Operations team and support threat detection and incident response in our internal environments.  The scope of the Security Operations team spans both the Enterprise and Product environments.  

You will join a team of analysts and engineers who protect the enterprise that aims to protect the world from cyberattacks. In this role, you will quickly become an expert in Palo Alto Networks security products; primarily XDR, XSOAR, Next Generation Firewalls and Prisma Cloud.  You will also provide feedback to the engineering teams to continually improve our world leading security products.

Many SOCs are drowning in false positive alerts, but Palo Alto Networks SOC changed the game and re-invented how Security Operations should function.  Our vigilant focus on automation, prevention and high-fidelity alerts enables our analysts to be more proactive.  You will not spend your day sifting through alerts.  Instead, your day will be split evenly between (1) analyzing and responding to high fidelity alerts (2) proactive threat hunting and (3) contributing to a variety of different projects aligned to your personal interests.

Continuous learning is also key to our Security Operations team’s philosophy.  We offer many channels for learning to ensure our teammates are up to speed with the latest TTPs.

Responsibilities: 

• Monitor and analyze alerts to confirm security incidents

• Perform analysis of true positive alerts to determine root cause and impact

• Own and lead individual incident response activities by analyzing security alerts and coordinating responses. Perform in-depth event review and analysis where appropriate.  Analyze events, research the potential cause, and recommend a course of action.

• Hunt for indications of compromise across multiple technology platforms

• Continuously improve our alerting use cases and the threat hunting program

• Collaborate with SOC Automation team to automate tedious, boring activities

• Contribute to proof-of-concept assessments of new security products

• Generate reports detailing security incidents for security leaders and the business

• Show off your excellent communication skills in post mortem reviews of incident response activities, to facilitate continuous improvement

• Research security trends with the goal of improving our own processes and tools

Qualifications

Your Experience 

• Qualifications: 

• Minimum 1+ years working in a Security Operations role

• Familiarity with the principles of network and endpoint security, current threat and attack trends, and have a working knowledge of security principles such as defense in depth.

• Familiarity with performing security Incident Response activities in complex organizations, with familiarity in at least one of the following three core areas:

  • Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) or Endpoint Forensics

  • Network Log Analysis

  • Public Cloud Defense (AWS, GCP etc)

• Threat hunting experience

• Hands-on working knowledge of a SIEM

• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills

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