Senior Consultant, Cloud Security

Summary

Join Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42 Consulting team as a Senior Consultant and become a trusted advisor to clients, shaping the future of cybersecurity. This client-facing role requires delivering proactive consulting services focused on cloud security (Azure, AWS, GCP). You will conduct security audits, architectural overviews, and gap analyses, advising clients on improving their cloud security posture. The position demands strong technical expertise in cloud security, including CASBs and cloud platforms. Success requires building client relationships and delivering contracted services. Compensation includes a competitive salary, restricted stock units, and a bonus.

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience performing cloud security advisement and risk assessments based upon industry-accepted standards
• 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 perform light 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

• 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
• 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 developing cloud security initiative roadmaps for clients to further 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

Benefits

• Restricted stock units
• A bonus