Principal Consultant

Summary

Join Palo Alto Networks as a Principal Consultant in Unit 42 and lead high-profile incident response engagements for major clients. You will provide expert incident response services, deliver findings to executive leadership, and contribute to the development and execution of Unit 42's DFIR practice strategy. This role requires driving innovation in reactive offerings, ensuring service quality, integrating threat intelligence, and recruiting top talent. You will also support consultant development, foster a positive team culture, and identify strategies for service improvement and product integration. Furthermore, you will cultivate client relationships, amplify Unit 42's market presence, and contribute to thought leadership. This position demands deep cybersecurity expertise and experience leading large-scale incident response engagements.

Requirements

• 6 years of hands-on professional experience in incident response, with 3 years experience in client-facing consulting roles
• Demonstrated prior experience and success in leading multi-site, large scale incident response engagements, including scoping work, managing incident response engagements end-to-end and providing guidance on tactical and longer term remediation recommendations
• Experience in managing, leading and motivating consultants at all levels
• Experience as a team leader including overseeing other senior, and mid-level analyst/consultant teams
• Ability to travel as needed to meet business demands
• Able to split your time across commercial support, client delivery, team coaching, and technical expertise and skills maintenance activities
• Strong presentation, communication, and presentation skills with verifiable industry experience communicating at CxO and/or Board of Directors level
• Expert level of knowledge of applicable laws, compliance regulations, and industry standards as it relates to privacy, security, and compliance
• Deep technical experience and operational understanding of major operating systems (Microsoft Windows, Linux, or Mac) and/or proficiency in host based forensics, network forensics and cloud incident response
• Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR), threat hunting, log analysis,and triage forensics
• Collection and analysis of host and cloud based forensic data at scale
• Client services mindset and top-notch client management skills
• Experienced-based understanding of clients’ needs and desired outcomes in incident response investigations
• Demonstrated writing ability, including technical reports, business communication, and thought leadership pieces
• Operates with a hands-on approach to service delivery with a bias towards collaboration and teamwork
• Track record of championing innovation and improvement initiatives for your area of expertise, identifying emerging trends and technologies and developing leading solutions to address client needs
• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Security, Computer Science, Digital Forensics, Cyber Security, or equivalent years of professional experience or equivalent relevant experience to meet job requirements and expectations
• Professional industry certifications such as: GIAC Certified Forensic Analyst (GCFA), GIAC Certified Forensic Examiner (GCFE), GIAC Incident Handler (GCIH)

Responsibilities

• Lead the team delivering high-profile, high-stakes enterprise level incident response engagements
• Provide hands-on, expert-level incident response services to clients and deliver findings to CxO and/or Board of Directors
• Partner with the Unit 42 Directors, executive team and service line leaders to develop and execute strategy for the Unit 42 Digital Forensics & Incident Response (DFIR) practice, as well as continuously advance the maturity of our services
• Drive innovation in Unit 42’s reactive offerings, by leading the consulting team and collaborating with cross-functional teams to bring new capabilities and services to market that leverage Palo Alto Networks products
• Ensure the consistency and quality of our services and highest level of customer service
• Integrate threat intelligence into our services by deepening the feedback loop with Unit 42 Threat Intelligence team and telemetry
• Recruit and onboard world class Incident Response talent to support our growth goals
• Support the professional growth and development of our consultants through training and technical enablement
• Foster and maintain a culture that attracts and retains smart, kind team members dedicated to executing with excellence
• Identify and execute strategies for service development, enablement, and process that result in the pull through of Palo Alto Networks products
• Cultivate and maintain relationships with key clientele to increase awareness of Unit 42’s’ capabilities and provide on-demand expertise for client needs
• Amplify Unit 42s’ presence and credibility in the marketplace through thought leadership, including via speaking engagements, articles, whitepapers, and media exposure

Preferred Qualifications

Be a valuable contributor to the practice and, specifically develop an external presence via public speaking, conferences, and/or publications have credibility, executive presence, and gravitas be able to have a meaningful and rapid delivery contribution have the potential and capacity to understand all aspects of the business and an excellent understanding of PANW products be collaborative and able to build relationships internally, externally, and across all PANW functions, including the sales team

Benefits

FLEXBenefits wellbeing spending account with over 1,000 eligible items selected by employees, our mental and financial health resources, and our personalized learning opportunities