SOC Security Engineer

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 Security Engineer to join the Security Operations team and support threat detection and incident response in our internal environments, specializing in logs, platforms, and data management.  

In this role you will be responsible for executing security engineering programs to support the SOC. You will be working very closely with the SOC and cross functional teams to manage and develop solutions and infrastructure that enable the Information Security team to prevent, detect, contain and manage risks within Palo Alto Networks environments. You will quickly become an expert in Palo Alto Networks security products; primarily XSIAM, XDR, and XSOAR.  You will also provide feedback to the engineering teams to continually improve our world-leading security products.

This is a fast-paced, post-startup environment. Successful candidates will be customer-oriented, results-driven and passionate about building great products that will impact across the organization. Continuous learning is also key to our Security Operations team’s philosophy.  

Your Impact 

• Lead critical log ingestions and data management initiatives
• Develop methodologies to identify visibility gaps and action plans
• Architect and implement effective solutions to ensure data continuity, integrity, and reliability 
• Coordinate data ingestion deployments with multi-functional team members 
• Collaborate with cross SOC functions to design solutions to help accelerate threat detection, responses and remediation of security incidents in a global organization
• Maintain the overall SOC Platforms including maintenance, enhancements and integration
• Support testing of new product integrations for infrastructure and monitor production performance
• Collaborate with internal customers to establish strong requirements and develop project plans to deliver products and services
• Partner with security engineers, threat management staff and infrastructure engineers to build security products that help secure the brand, trust and customer experience
• Work closely with the security operations team to transfer knowledge and operational process to publish services for run-the-business consumption of developed solutions
• Participate in working groups to problem solve and identify methods to improve or enhance existing tools, products and services
• Assist with security incidents, investigations, root-cause analysis and support real-time tools development to enable prevention, or to drive down detection and containment times in partnership with the Security Operations and Engineering teams

Qualifications

Your Experience 

• Minimum 3+ years working in a SOC role with hands-on working knowledge of SIEM solutions
• Log Management experience
• Familiarity with data reliability and platform assurance concepts 
• Familiarity with 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
• Familiarity with performing security Incident Response activities in complex organizations, with familiarity in at least one of the following three core areas -
  • Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) or Endpoint Forensics
  • Network Log Analysis
  • Public Cloud Defense (AWS, GCP etc)
• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills
• Python scripting proficiency
• Strong written and oral communication skills
• Strong organizational skills
• Customer focused, have a drive for results, and passionate about building great products that will have impact