Consulting Director, DFIR, Reactive Services

Summary

Join Palo Alto Networks as a Consulting Director, Reactive Services, a senior-level consulting position providing expert guidance on cybersecurity and data breach response. You will advocate for clients' cybersecurity, offering strategic and technical leadership. This role demands an industry-recognized leadership background, experience with forensic processes, and knowledge of forensics tools. You will need experience leading technical breach response teams and possess a strong understanding of malware and operating systems. The position requires 10 years of hands-on consulting experience in digital forensics and incident response. Compensation is expected to be between $183,000 - $252,000/YR, including restricted stock units and a bonus.

Requirements

• 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
• 10 years of hands-on consulting experience in digital forensics, and incident response
• Experience with forensic processes and procedures (chain of custody, computer acquisition techniques, and memory acquisition techniques)

Responsibilities

• 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
• Be the client’s advocate for cybersecurity and provide strategic and technical leadership in this area
• 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