Principal Consultant, Incident Preparedness

Summary

Join Palo Alto Networks® as a Principal Consultant and contribute to their mission of protecting the digital way of life. This client-facing role involves leading and delivering proactive services engagements, working directly with customers and key stakeholders to manage and deliver incident preparedness engagements, proactive assessments, and services. You will also mentor and guide the Proactive Services team, participate in conferences, and represent Unit 42. This position requires a passion for cybersecurity and experience in incident preparedness and incident response consulting, including leading and delivering complex engagements, scoping, client interaction, and executing incident preparedness or IR-related projects.

Requirements

• 6+ years of incident preparedness and/or incident response related consulting experience with a passion for cyber security
• Experience with leading and delivering complicated engagements including scoping, interfacing with the client, and have executed incident preparedness or IR related projects
• Incident response consulting experience required. Incident preparedness experience is a must as it will be a core focus of the position
• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Security, Computer Science, Cyber Security or related field or equivalent experience required

Responsibilities

• Perform and lead proactive incident preparedness projects, including but not limited to TableTop Exercises (TTX), Incident Response Plans and Response Maturity Assessments
• Review Crisis Management, Incident Response, Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Plans, and other relevant documents that support holistic business resilience
• Plan and deliver a range of TTXs, including writing post exercise reports that provide detailed analysis and recommendations on areas for improvement
• Manage and lead incident preparedness and other cyber security engagements from initial scoping through to delivery
• Ability to perform travel requirements as needed to meet business demands (on average 20%)
• Mentorship of wider team members in incident preparedness best practices

Benefits

• FLEXBenefits wellbeing spending account with over 1,000 eligible items selected by employees
• Mental and financial health resources
• Personalized learning opportunities