Senior Manager, Offensive Security (InfoSec)

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.

We have the vision of a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. These aren’t easy goals to accomplish – but we’re not here for easy. We’re here for better. 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.

We’re changing the nature of work. Palo Alto Networks is evolving to meet the needs of our employees now and in the future through FLEXWORK, our approach to how we work. From benefits to learning, location to leadership, we’ve rethought and recreated every aspect of the employee experience at Palo Alto Networks.  And because it FLEXes around each individual employee based on their individual choices, employees are empowered to push boundaries and help us all evolve, together. 

Job Description

Your Career

Palo Alto Networks Information Security team is looking for a Senior Manager to lead the Offensive Security teams. Offensive Security’s mission is to leverage adversarial knowledge and skills to improve security posture. A set of specialized teams pursue this mission across two scopes; the Palo Alto Networks enterprise and the Palo Alto Networks product ecosystem. Adversarial operations against the enterprise are conducted by members of the Red Team. On the other hand, the penetration testing team members focus on assessments against all products and services within the Palo Alto Networks portfolio.

As a Senior Manager, you’ll look for strategic opportunities to evolve the offensive security services as well as the teams. Interpersonal communication will be key to your success in aligning the teams’ work with the constituent/stakeholder needs. Securing our products and business against known and anticipated threats is a mission critical outcome for the company. Your intention must be to effectively persuade, convince or influence all relevant stakeholders to achieve this desired outcome. On the other hand, to technically accomplish the set strategy, you’ll need to empower and maintain a high morale across your teams. Preserving the inclusive culture must be the crux of your organizational development strategy. 

Your Impact

The successful candidate will thrive in a fast-paced environment where energy, drive, and a collaborative approach are crucial to success. In this role, you will:

• Red Team
  • Oversight of day-to-day operations for the red team
  • Continuously mature red team processes, and drive new innovations
  • Guide the team through the design and execution of red team scenarios to highlight gaps impacting enterprise security posture and readiness
  • Assist with security investigations, root-cause analysis, and corrective measures as required
  • Resource and budget management
• Product Penetration Testing
  • Envision and execute the strategy for ongoing product security assurance through penetration testing
  • Engage with the product engineering and management teams to track and plan for the penetration testing needs across the product portfolio
  • Supervise the scoping, scheduling, and execution of third-party penetration testing assessments and manage the 3rd party partners
  • Ensure timely remediation of issues discovered during assessments
  • Resource and budget management  

Qualifications

Your Experience

• Minimum 2 years security leadership with experience building long-term career development plans for team members at all levels
• Expert level experience in red team, network penetration testing or product security roles
• Demonstrated understanding of the principles of network and endpoint security, current threat and attack trends, and have a working knowledge of security principles such as defense in depth
• Strong technical leader capable of planning and executing to meet core objectives
• Demonstrated experience in planning and execution complex red team operations
• Strong communication skills, both spoken and written
• Strong familiarity with technologies commonly seen in Enterprises (i.e. AD, Cloud, VMs etc)
• Previous management and project leadership experience required
• Ability to establish priorities, work independently and proceed with objectives
• Must be well organized and able to leverage best practices, able to thrive in fast-paced environment, and, most importantly, have the ability to approach problems with an innovative, can-do attitude