Staff MDR Analyst (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

We are seeking a driven problem solver to join our growing Security Analyst team at Unit 42. We are responsible for the internal security monitoring, threat hunting, and incident response for some of the largest networks in the world. As a Security Analyst, we will rely on you to detect and respond to cyber incidents facing customers’ internal business

The ideal candidate is a quick learner and good communicator who will analyze threat alerts that fire from our Cortex XSOAR. The candidate should be a creative thinker who takes pride in solving challenging security problems.

Your Impact

• Work closely with Palo Altos' largest customers providing the best Managed Detection and Response (MDR) security service in market
• Own an incident lifecycle from outbreak to full remediation as an integral part of a 24x7x365 follow-the-sun global SOC
• Provide critical feedback to the different product, research and engineering teams to help improve the products for the entire Palo Alto Networks' customer base
• Work closely with Security Research, Threat Intelligence and Threat Hunting teams to remediate and detect new emerging threats
• We are seeking a driven problem solver to join our Security Analysts team -Our team is responsible for customers internal security monitoring, threat hunting, and incident response - As a Security Analyst, we will rely on you to detect and respond to cyber incidents facing customers’ internal business
• The ideal candidate is a quick learner and good communicator who will be able to follow established processes for analyzing threat alerts that fire from our Cortex XSOAR -The candidate should be a creative thinker who takes pride in solving tough problems

Qualifications

Your Experience

• 3+ years of experience in a multi tiered SOC/IR/MDR team
• Experienced with Technologies such as EDR, SIEM, SOAR, FW
• Deep understanding of attack trends and threat detection services
• Familiarity with security best practices and common emerging security threats
• Excellent written and oral communication skills  
• Some degree of Python programming - An advantage
• Some degree of Malware Analysis - An advantage
• Hands-On experience with XSOAR or Cortex XDR - An advantage
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent military experience required 

Additional Information

The Team

Unit 42 is the global threat intelligence team at Palo Alto Networks. We believe threat intelligence should be shared and available to all within the industry. We deliver high-quality, in-depth research on adversaries, malware families, and attack campaigns. Our analysts uncover and document adversary behaviors and then share playbooks that give insight into the various tools, techniques, and procedures threat actors execute to compromise organizations.

If you’re looking for a career with access to the brightest minds in cybersecurity, you’ve found it. We have a hunger for researching, hunting out the world’s newest threats and sharing them with our industry to make the digital world a safer place.

You will be part of a growing, passionate, and dynamic team with an opportunity to work on challenging and exciting projects — centered on what we believe is one of the mo