Consulting Director, Cloud Security, Proactive Services (Unit 42)

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

As a Consulting Director, you will help drive Proactive Consulting Services with customers where you will act as a senior consultant and trusted advisor to grow partnerships and assist customers from a healthy cyber security perspective. This senior-level consultant will be the trusted advisor to grow partnerships and assist customers from a healthy cybersecurity perspective.

Your Impact

• Serve as a key contributor to the development, maturation, and innovation of cloud security consulting services 
• Conduct security configuration audits of client cloud administration consoles against industry-standard frameworks, best practices and threats
• Architectural overviews of client cloud environment networking edge protections
• Analyze the current level of monitoring and alerting within cloud-hosted infrastructure and environments and provide a gap analysis on log coverage
• Conduct reviews of cloud identity management methodologies including federation, delegation of rights, conditional access, and multi-factored authentication 
• Utilize command-line interfaces of cloud-hosted environments to conduct technical and control set validation
• Assess client implementations of multi-cloud and hybrid-cloud environments by understanding the technical implementations of both on-premises infrastructure and other cloud environment dependencies
• Advise and develop cloud security initiative roadmaps for clients further to secure their cloud environment and interactions with on-premises infrastructure
• Leverage the PANW cloud platform product platform, Prisma, to continue to enhance Unit 42’s cloud security consulting delivery capabilities
• Engage in a pre-sales capacity with client prospects, discovering customer pain related to their cloud environment operations and threats
• Identify gaps and alignment of Unit 42 solutions to customer pains and craft and deliver communications that clearly position the solution value and impact to key target outcomes
• Support engagement teams in their abilities to address and overcome deep technical objections to recommendations that arise throughout the delivery process
• Further the team’s ability to speak to the alignment of recommendations with a client’s unique business process, broader strategic landscape or specific initiatives or risk mitigation or resource allocation
• Lead the practice and invest in developing relationships with clients that further Unit 42’s goals to become a more strategic trusted advisor
• Lead the design, development and delivery of consulting enablement content for Unit 42 consultants
• Assist with Palo Alto Networks product development team’s contributing into feedback loops that work to ensure bi-directional communication about compelling features and capabilities that would benefit Unit 42 consultants (and the broader consulting industry and security practitioners) in assessing and facilitating risk reduction activity

Qualifications

Your Experience

• 4+ years of experience performing cloud security advisement and risk assessments based upon industry-accepted standards
• 6+ years of  professional services and consulting experience and 3+ years of Director (or and equivalent Senior Manager) experience leading consulting delivery team’s is highly preferred
• Experience managing a diverse team of