Principal Consultant, Cloud Security Proactive Services (Unit 42) - Remote

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.

FLEXWORK is an employee-centric reimagining of how we work. We built FLEXWORK based on employee feedback – it is about flexibility, trust, and choice whenever possible. It’s been a journey of disruption that has yielded the best of our values. We offer as much flexibility as possible, and choices that enable you to be most productive, including benefits that meet your needs and learning opportunities that you feel passionate about.

Our Approach to Work

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

The Principal Consultant will help drive Proactive Consulting Services with Cloud Customers.  This individual will be the trusted advisor to grow partnerships and assist customers to get and STAY healthy from a cyber security perspective.

Your Impact

• Conduct security configuration audits of client cloud administration consoles against industry-standard frameworks and best practices
• 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 
• Conduct general cyber risk assessments using framework or standards like NIST CSF, ISO 27001/2, PCI, CIS Top 2, CMMD, or other industry measurement tools
• 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

Qualifications

Your Experience

• 6+ years of experience performing cloud security advisement and risk assessments based upon industry-accepted standards
• Former professional services and consulting experience preferred
• Experience managing a team of consultants
• Cloud Security-related certifications preferred
• Hands-on experience with a cloud hosting provider (AWS, Azure, GCP, etc).
• Experience with a Cloud Application Security Broker - MCAS, Netskope
• Possess a deep technical knowledge in CASBs, Cloud Platforms and the dependencies around such an environment (WAF, SSO, Cloud Threats, API Security, Cloud Security Posture Management)
• Former experience with cloud migrations (cloud to cloud, or on-prem to cloud)
• Demonstrates a track record in strengthening existing and developing new client relationships
• Knowledge of command-line interfaces or scripting tools in cloud environments is a plus
• Ability to scope new opportunities with prospective clients, including drafting statements of work and proposals
• Ability to perform travel requirements as needed to meet business demands (on average 30%)
• Identified ability to grow into a valuable contributor to the practice and, specifically -
  • have an external presence via public speaking, conferences, and/or publications
  • have credibility, executive presence, and gravitas
  • be able to have a meaningful and rapid delivery contribution
  • have the potential and capacity to understand all aspects of the business and an excellent understanding of PANW products
  • be collaborative and able to build relationships internally, externally, and across all PANW functions, including the sales team
• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Security, Computer Science, Digital Forensics, Cyber Security O