Principal Consultant, Security Operations, 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 as a Principal Consultant:

This role is client-facing and requires the Principal Consultant to lead and produce deliverables based on cyber risk management (CRM) client engagements.  The Principal Consultant will work directly with multiple customers and key stakeholders (Admins, C-Suite, etc) to drive the security priorities of the security operations management, security operations center (SOC) staff, and Information Security team.

Your Impact as a Principal Consultant:

• Principal Consultants will help drive Proactive Consulting Services with SOC assessments.  This individual will be the trusted advisor to grow partnerships and assist customers to get and stay healthy from a cyber security perspective
• Lead security audits of client’s security operations program, processes, and technology
• Analyze the current level of monitoring and alerting within the enterprise and provide a gap analysis on log coverage
• Conduct general cyber risk assessments using framework or standards like MITRE ATT&CK, NIST 800-61r2, NIST CSF, ISO 27001/2, PCI, CIS Top 2, CMMD, or other industry measurement tools.
• Utilize command-line interfaces or graphical user interfaces (GUI) of security tools to conduct technical and control set validation
• Assess client implementations of security monitoring and endpoint/network protection tooling to understand the technical implementations of security controls
• Advise and develop SOC initiative roadmaps for clients to further secure their environments.
• Scope new opportunities with prospective clients, including drafting statements of work and proposals

Qualifications

Your Experience

• 6-9+ years of experience performing information security advisement and risk assessments based upon industry-accepted standards
• 3+ years of consulting experience in SOC, security engineering, SIEM administration, and incident management serving large, multinational organizations
• Knowledge or certification in the MITRE ATT&CK framework
• Former professional services and consulting experience preferred
• Experience managing a team of consultants and large engagements
• Hands-on experience with SIEM engineering or management
• Possess a deep technical knowledge in Security Incident and Event Management (SIEM) platforms, Endpoint Protection and Response/Next Gen Protection and Response (EDR/XDR) tools, Next GenFirewalls, Threat Intelligence and Hunting platforms
• Former experience with Security Operations or Cyber Defense Operations
• Demonstrates a track record in strengthening existing and developing new client relationships
• Knowledge of command-line interfaces or scripting tools in security tools 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