Consulting Director, DFIR, Reactive Services

Summary

Join Palo Alto Networks as a Consulting Director, Reactive Services and provide expert-level guidance on cybersecurity and data breach response to Unit 42 clients. Lead and advocate for clients' cybersecurity needs, offering strategic and technical leadership. Leverage your industry recognition and experience in information security to guide clients through complex situations. This senior-level consulting position requires extensive experience in digital forensics, incident response, and managing teams. You will be responsible for leading technical breach response teams, managing budgets, and developing creative solutions. The role involves client management, cross-selling, and up to 20% travel.

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)
• Experience using forensics tools such as EnCase, FTK, SleuthKit, Volatility, etc
• You are an Industry-recognized inspiring leader with media and public speaking experience, deeply embedded in information security community

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
• 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

Benefits

• The compensation offered for this position will depend on qualifications, experience, and work location. For candidates who receive an offer at the posted level, the starting base salary (for non-sales roles) or base salary + commission target (for sales/commissioned roles) is expected to be between $183,000 - $252,000/YR
• The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus