Senior Consulting Director, SOC Advisory, Proactive Services (Unit 42) - Remote

Your Career

As a Senior Consulting Director within Unit 42s Cyber Risk Management team you will lead our Security Operations Center (SOC) Assessment offering and own the delivery success of the service line in North America. This includes overseeing a highperforming team of consultants delivering these critical capabilities maintaining delivery quality driving revenue and utilization supporting business development and advancing service innovation. Working closely with the Managing Director and CRM NAM Practice leader along with peers in North America and other theaters and regions you will provide executive oversight and strategic direction for how we evaluate mature and optimize security operations through our assessments across our client base driving greater security outcomes product integration and transformation at scale.

In this strategic leadership role you will serve as the executive sponsor on key engagements guide a highperforming team of Directors and consultants and partner across Unit 42 and Palo Alto Networks to refine services contribute to thought leadership and elevate SOC capabilities across industries. You will be responsible for setting and achieving service line KPIs including delivery excellence customer satisfaction and introducing Palo Alto Networks products as solutions to risks identified during engagements.
 

This role requires deep expertise in SOC operations and consulting experience managing delivery teams and the ability to influence both internal and external stakeholders. You will work crossfunctionally with sales product service innovation and marketing teams to evolve and scale Unit 42s SOC capabilities integrating best practices and Palo Alto Networks product offerings.

Your Impact

• Provide strategic leadership and vision for Unit 42s global SOC Assessment services ensuring alignment with organizational goals customer needs and emerging threat trends

• Own and drive success across all SOC Assessment service line KPIs including revenue growth delivery excellence utilization customer satisfaction and Security Transformation Program (STP) contribution

• Lead the continual maturation and innovation of SOC Assessment methodologies deliverables and tooling by integrating industry best practices threat intelligence and customer feedback

• Serve as the executive sponsor strategic advisor and delivery lead for complex highimpact SOC engagements ensuring delivery quality client satisfaction and longterm value realization

• Deliver strategic guidance to CISOs CTOs and executive stakeholders on optimizing detection response and security operations capabilities across hybrid and cloud environments

• Embed Palo Alto Networks technologies such as Cortex XDR XSIAM and XSOAR into assessment and transformation engagements to drive measurable security outcomes

• Own delivery staffing and capacity planning to ensure the right mix of talent availability and expertise across concurrent engagements

• Lead and mentor a highperforming team of Directors and consultants fostering career growth technical depth and leadership capability

• Collaborate with GTM teams to shape messaging identify new opportunities and support the successful closing of SOC Assessment engagements through solutioning and executive engagement

• Lead and contribute to complex scoping and quoting efforts ensuring accurate effort estimates appropriate resourcing and alignment to customer goals

• Build and nurture trusted advisor relationships with key customers especially Unit 42 retainer accounts to drive repeat business and longterm strategic value

• Represent Unit 42 as a SOC subject matter expert at key industry events roundtables webinars and forums to enhance thought leadership and market credibility

• Author and contribute to whitepapers blogs and internal enablement materials to advance the teams knowledge and influence in the SOC domain

• Champion a culture of excellence innovation and collaboration fostering a positive and inclusive environment that attracts retains and develops top talent

• Act as the internal voice of the SOC Assessment service line collaborating across product sales and delivery teams to influence service roadmap product alignment and market positioning

• Continuously monitor the evolving security operations landscape including adversary techniques SOC tooling trends and customer challenges to evolve service offerings and maintain relevance

Qualifications :

Your Experience 

• 10 years of experience in cybersecurity with 5 years leading SOCrelated services or operations (e.g. SOC transformation SOC consulting etc)

• 7 years managing consulting delivery teams or security operations teams ideally at the Director level or higher

• Deep understanding of SOC operations detection and response workflows SIEM/SOAR tooling and threatinformed defense

• Experience conducting SOC assessments maturity benchmarking or blue team capability reviews

• Familiarity with relevant frameworks and standards (MITRE ATT&CK NIST CSF CIS Controls etc.)

• Demonstrated success in building leading and scaling consulting services

• Strong executive presence and comfort engaging with CISOs CTOs and Boards

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with a record of influencing clients and internal stakeholders

• Knowledge of Palo Alto Networks products (e.g. Cortex suite) and how they support best in class security operations

• Bachelors Degree required; Masters Degree or cybersecurity certifications (CISSP CISM GIAC etc.) preferred

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 $236000 to 275000/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

Were problem solvers that take risks and challenge cybersecuritys status quo. Its simple: we cant 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  .

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.