Principal Consultant, Cloud Security

Summary

Join Palo Alto Networks as a Principal Consultant and contribute to a safer digital world. This client-facing role involves leading projects, delivering proactive consulting services, and acting as a trusted advisor to clients. You will be responsible for understanding cloud threat intelligence, conducting security audits, performing architectural overviews, analyzing monitoring and alerting, reviewing cloud identity management, conducting cyber risk assessments, using command-line interfaces, assessing multi-cloud and hybrid-cloud environments, advising on cloud security roadmaps, and strengthening client relationships. This position requires 6+ years of experience in cloud security advisement and risk assessments, former professional services and consulting experience, experience managing a team of consultants, cloud security-related certifications, hands-on experience with cloud hosting providers, experience with Cloud Application Security Brokers, deep technical knowledge in CASBs, Cloud Platforms, and related dependencies, experience with cloud migrations, and the ability to scope new opportunities and perform travel requirements.

Requirements

• 6+ years of experience performing cloud security advisement and risk assessments based upon industry-accepted standards
• Experience managing a team of consultants
• Hands-on experience with a cloud hosting provider (AWS, Azure, GCP, etc)
• Experience with a Cloud Application Security Broker - MCAS, Netskope
• Possess a deep technical knowledge in CASBs, Cloud Platforms and the dependencies around such an environment (WAF, SSO, Cloud Threats, API Security, Cloud Security Posture Management)
• Demonstrates a track record in strengthening existing and developing new client relationships
• Ability to scope new opportunities with prospective clients, including drafting statements of work and proposals
• Ability to perform travel requirements as needed to meet business demands (on average 30%)
• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Security, Computer Science, Digital Forensics, Cyber Security OR equivalent years of professional experience or equivalent military experience to meet job requirements and expectations

Responsibilities

• Leading projects and produce deliverables based on proactive services client engagements
• Work directly with multiple customers and key stakeholders ( technical operators, management, C-Suite, etc) to drive the security priorities of the Cloud Platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP) and Cloud Related Applications/Services (CASB)
• Lead engagements delivering Proactive Consulting Services for consulting clients
• Be a trusted advisor tasked with fostering partnerships and assisting customers with their cybersecurity posture
• Understanding the cloud threat intelligence landscape, including threat actors in cloud environments and common attacks in the cloud
• Conducting security configuration audits of client cloud administration consoles against industry-standard frameworks and best practices
• Performing architectural overviews of client cloud environment networking edge protections
• Analyzing the current level of monitoring and alerting within cloud-hosted infrastructure and environments and provide a gap analysis on log coverage
• Conducting reviews of cloud identity management methodologies including federation, delegation of rights, conditional access, and multi-factored authentication
• Conducting general cyber risk assessments using framework or standards like NIST CSF, ISO 27001/2, PCI, CIS Top 2, CMMD, or other industry measurement tools
• Using command-line interfaces of cloud-hosted environments to conduct technical and control set validation
• Assessing client implementations of multi-cloud and hybrid-cloud environments by understanding the technical implementations of both on-premises infrastructure and other cloud environment dependencies
• Advising on and develop cloud security initiative roadmaps for clients further to secure their cloud environment and interactions with on-premises infrastructure

Preferred Qualifications

• Former professional services and consulting experience
• Cloud Security-related certifications
• Former experience with cloud migrations (cloud to cloud, or on-prem to cloud)
• Knowledge of command-line interfaces or scripting tools in cloud environments
• Identified ability to grow into a valuable contributor to the practice and, specifically - External presence via public speaking, conferences, and/or publications
• Credibility, executive presence, and gravitas
• Meaningful and rapid delivery contribution
• Potential and capacity to understand all aspects of the business and an excellent understanding of PANW products
• Collaborative nature and capable of building relationships internally, externally, and across all PANW functions, including the sales team

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 $151000 - $208000/YR
• The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus
• A description of our employee benefits may be found here