Consulting Director Specialized Services Proactive Services Unit 42 - Remote

Your Career

The Consulting Director will help drive Proactive Consulting Services across a growing portfolio of strategic service offerings including SOC Assessments Cloud Security AI/ML Security Assessments and other emerging service domains. This seniorlevel consultant will serve as a trusted advisor and key contributor to helping our customers strengthen cybersecurity resilience and advance their overall security maturity.

Your Impact

• Serve as a key contributor to the development maturation and innovation of SOC AI Security and Cloud Security consulting services

• Lead and deliver technical and strategic cybersecurity assessments in areas such as SOC maturity cloud security AI/ML model and implementation risks and application/infrastructure security

• Translate technical findings and observations into clear actionable business risk implications and strategic recommendations

• Conduct reviews and assessments based on frameworks such as NIST CSF MITRE ATT&CK ISO 27001 and other industry standards

• Provide deep subject matter expertise and delivery leadership across a range of environments including cloudnative hybrid and onpremises ecosystems

• Provide strategic guidance on the development of security programs operations models threat detection capabilities and incident readiness

• Drive crossfunctional value by integrating the Palo Alto Networks product platform (e.g. Cortex XSIAM Prisma SASE Precision AI) into consulting engagements where applicable

• Engage in a presales capacity with client prospects uncovering cybersecurity pain points across SOC operations cloud infrastructure and AI system implementations

• Identify alignment between Unit 42 solutions and customer challenges crafting and delivering communications that clearly articulate solution value and outcomes

• Support engagement teams in addressing and overcoming deep technical objections that arise throughout the delivery process

• Strengthen the teams ability to tie recommendations to each clients unique business processes strategic initiatives and risk mitigation objectives

• Lead the practice and invest in developing longterm client relationships that support Unit 42s goal of becoming a trusted strategic advisor

• Lead the design development and delivery of consulting enablement content to grow capabilities across the Unit 42 team

• Partner with Palo Alto Networks product development teams by contributing to feedback loops that support bidirectional communication on product features delivery impact and consultant needs in reducing customer risk

Qualifications :

Your Experience 

• 4 years of experience delivering cybersecurity advisory or risk assessments based on industryaccepted frameworks and standards

• 6 years of professional services and consulting experience with 3 years in a Director (or equivalent Senior Manager) role leading consulting delivery teams strongly preferred

• Demonstrated delivery experience in one or more of the following: SOC Maturity Assessments Cloud Security Reviews AI/ML Model Security Assessments Application Security Reviews and Threat Modeling

• Experience advising CISOs and other senior stakeholders on strategic planning resource prioritization capability development and cybersecurity roadmaps

• Strong understanding of cybersecurity domains including network endpoint identity cloud and AI/ML security principles

• Adept at translating highlevel strategic client discussions into detailed proposals and project outcomes

• Handson experience with technologies such as SIEM EDR/XDR CNAPP CSPM IAM Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and cloudnative platforms (e.g. AWS Azure GCP)

• Solid knowledge of emerging threats and attacker TTPs with the ability to contextualize them into practical assessment and strategy engagements

• Experience advising CISOs and other senior stakeholders on strategic planning resource prioritization capability development and cybersecurity roadmaps

• Proven experience managing diverse teams of business and technical consultants

• Ability to scope new consulting opportunities including drafting statements of work proposals and resource estimates

• Background in scripting automation or use of commandline tools in assessments is a plus

• Public speaking training and enablement experience is strongly preferred

• 10 years of experience building strengthening and expanding longterm client relationships

• Ability to travel as needed to meet business demands (on average 25

• Bachelors Degree in Information Security Computer Science Digital Forensics Cybersecurity or equivalent professional experience required

Additional Information :

The Team

Unit 42 Consulting is Palo Alto Networks 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 missioncritical cybersecurity solutions we are experienced in working quickly to provide an effective incident response attack readiness and remediation plans with a focus on providing longterm 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 nonsales roles) or base salary commission target (for sales/commissioned roles) is expected to be between $183000 $252000/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

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