Principal Consultant, Cloud Security, Proactive Services (Unit 42)

1 Month ago • 6 Years + • Devops • $151,000 PA - $208,000 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

Palo Alto Networks is seeking a Principal Consultant for their Unit 42 Proactive Services team. This client-facing role involves leading projects and delivering proactive cybersecurity services for cloud platforms like Azure, AWS, and GCP, as well as Cloud Application Security Brokers (CASB). The consultant will act as a trusted advisor, helping clients improve their security posture through understanding cloud threat intelligence, conducting security configuration audits, performing architectural overviews, analyzing monitoring and alerting, reviewing identity management, performing risk assessments, and validating controls using cloud command-line interfaces. Responsibilities also include assessing multi-cloud and hybrid-cloud environments, advising on security roadmaps, and engaging with clients from technical operators to C-suite executives.
Must have:
  • 6+ years of cloud security advisement and risk assessment experience
  • Experience managing a team of consultants
  • Hands-on experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP
  • Experience with CASB solutions (MCAS, Netskope)
  • Deep technical knowledge of CASBs, cloud platforms, and related dependencies
  • Ability to scope new opportunities and draft proposals
  • Bachelor's Degree in Information Security, Computer Science, Digital Forensics, Cyber Security, or equivalent professional experience
Good to have:
  • Former professional services and consulting experience
  • Cloud Security-related certifications
  • Experience with cloud migrations
  • Track record in strengthening client relationships
  • Knowledge of command-line interfaces or scripting tools in cloud environments
  • Ability to travel as needed (on average 30%)
Perks:
  • FLEXBenefits wellbeing spending account
  • Mental and financial health resources
  • Personalized learning opportunities

Job Details

Company Description

Our Mission

At Palo Alto Networks® everything starts and ends with our mission:

Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.
Our vision is a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. We are a company built on the foundation of challenging and disrupting the way things are done, and we’re looking for innovators who are as committed to shaping the future of cybersecurity as we are.

Who We Are

We take our mission of protecting the digital way of life seriously. We are relentless in protecting our customers and we believe that the unique ideas of every member of our team contributes to our collective success. Our values were crowdsourced by employees and are brought to life through each of us everyday - from disruptive innovation and collaboration, to execution. From showing up for each other with integrity to creating an environment where we all feel included.

As a member of our team, you will be shaping the future of cybersecurity. We work fast, value ongoing learning, and we respect each employee as a unique individual. Knowing we all have different needs, our development and personal wellbeing programs are designed to give you choice in how you are supported. This includes our FLEXBenefits wellbeing spending account with over 1,000 eligible items selected by employees, our mental and financial health resources, and our personalized learning opportunities - just to name a few!

Job Description

Your Career

This role is client-facing and requires the Principal Consultant to lead projects and produce deliverables based on proactive services client engagements.  The Principal Consultant will 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).

The Principal Consultant will lead engagements delivering Proactive Consulting Services for consulting clients.  This individual will be a trusted advisor tasked with fostering partnerships and assisting customers with their cybersecurity posture.

Your Impact

  • 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

Qualifications

Your Experience

  • 6+ years of experience performing cloud security advisement and risk assessments based upon industry-accepted standards
  • Former professional services and consulting experience preferred
  • Experience managing a team of consultants
  • Cloud Security-related certifications preferred
  • 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)
  • Former experience with cloud migrations (cloud to cloud, or on-prem to cloud)
  • Demonstrates a track record in strengthening existing and developing new client relationships
  • Knowledge of command-line interfaces or scripting tools in cloud environments is a plus
  • 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%)
  • 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
  • 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

Additional Information

The Team

Unit 42 Consulting is Palo Alto Network's security advisory team.  Our vision is to create a more secure digital world by providing the highest quality incident response, risk management, and digital forensic services to clients of all sizes. Our team is composed of recognized experts and incident responders with deep technical expertise and experience in investigations, data breach response, digital forensics, and information security. With a highly successful track record of delivering mission-critical cybersecurity solutions, we are experienced in working quickly to provide an effective incident response, attack readiness, and remediation plans with a focus on providing long-term support to improve our clients’ security posture.

Compensation Disclosure

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.

Our Commitment

We’re problem solvers that take risks and challenge cybersecurity’s status quo. It’s simple: we can’t accomplish our mission without diverse teams innovating, together.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for all qualified individuals with a disability. If you require assistance or accommodation due to a disability or special need, please contact us at  accommodations@paloaltonetworks.com.

Palo Alto Networks is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity in our workplace, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or other legally protected characteristics.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Is role eligible for Immigration Sponsorship? No. Please note that we will not sponsor applicants for work visas for this position.

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Our enterprise security platform detects and prevents known and unknown threats while safely enabling an increasingly complex and rapidly growing number of applications. Come be part of the team that redefined the firewall industry and is now the fastest-growing security company in history. Palo Alto Networks, the global cybersecurity leader, is shaping the cloud-centric future with technology that is transforming the way people and organizations operate. Our mission is to be the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life. We help address the world's greatest security challenges with continuous innovation that seizes the latest breakthroughs in artificial intelligence, analytics, automation, and orchestration. By delivering an integrated platform and empowering a growing ecosystem of partners, we are at the forefront of protecting tens of thousands of organizations across clouds, networks, and mobile devices. Our vision is a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before.

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