Consulting Director, DFIR, Reactive 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.

Job Description

Your Career

Consulting Director, Reactive Services is a senior-level consulting position.  The individual will provide expert-level guidance on all areas of cybersecurity and data breach response to Unit 42 clients across a wide array of industries, geographies, and organizational structures.  They will be the client’s advocate for cybersecurity and will provide strategic and technical leadership in this area.  

We expect office-based employees to be in the office four days per week, with one day working from where they choose. We believe being together facilitates casual conversations and those magic moments where we can work on issues and ideas informally. These moments build capability and deepen trusted relationships and allow our people to feel safe in taking risks and being disruptive. Like so many companies, we are working through the details and things could change …. but in general if a role is deemed office-based we want our teams to be together four days per week.

Your Impact

• You are an Industry-recognized inspiring leader with media and public speaking experience, deeply embedded in information security community
• Experience with forensic processes and procedures (chain of custody, computer acquisition techniques, and memory acquisition techniques)
• Maintain hyper-current knowledge of extant vulnerabilities and threat landscape
• Experience using forensics tools such as EnCase, FTK, SleuthKit, Volatility, etc.
• Analysis experience and operational understanding of one or more major operating systems (Microsoft Windows, Linux, or Mac)
• Knowledge of common malware persistence mechanisms
• Experience identifying and triaging malware
• Experience leading technical breach response teams in fast-paced environment
• 10 years of hands-on consulting experience in digital forensics, and incident response

Qualifications

Your Experience

• Strategic mindset but also detail-oriented and hands-on ability to lead high-level discussion on DFIR technology strategy and approach both internally and externally
• Demonstrated self-starter with intellectual curiosity and ability to adapt to change
• Ability to work quickly, willingness to work on ad hoc assignments, work independently or leading teams as needed
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to develop unique and creative solutions to problems on the fly
• Willingness to learn new technologies and techniques to solve complex customer issues
• Ability to manage clients, lead meetings, and manage multiple project teams concurrently
• Ability to quickly develop and maintain rapport with clients 
• Demonstrated ability to cross-sell or upsell existing clients and generate new business
• Experience managing complex budgets
• Ability to allocate staff to various projects quickly and efficiently
• Willingness to travel as required (up to 20%) to support leadership, customer briefings, planning and other activity as needed
• 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

Additional Information

The Team

Unit 42 Consulting is Palo Alto Network's security advisory team.  Our vision is to create a more secure digital world by providing the highest quality incident response, risk management, and d