Senior Consulting Director, Cloud Security, Proactive Services (Unit 42) - Remote
Senior Consulting Director, Cloud Security, Proactive Services (Unit 42) - Remote
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Job Description
Your Career
As a Senior Consulting Director within Unit 42s Cyber Risk Management (CRM) team you will lead our Cloud Security Assessments offering and own the delivery success of the service line in North America. This includes overseeing a highperforming team of consultants maintaining delivery quality driving revenue and utilization supporting business development and thought leadership 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 cloud security posture and resilience through tailored assessments driving meaningful risk reduction product integration and cloud transformation at scale.
In this strategic leadership role you will serve as the executive sponsor on key cloud security 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 cloud security outcomes for our customers. You will be responsible for setting and achieving service line KPIs including delivery excellence customer satisfaction and identifying opportunities to align Palo Alto Networks product capabilities to client needs uncovered during assessments.
This role requires deep technical and architectural expertise in cloud security experience leading consulting delivery teams and the ability to influence both internal and external stakeholders. You will collaborate crossfunctionally with sales product marketing and service innovation teams to scale Unit 42s cloud consulting capabilities and expand our market presence.
Your Impact
Provide strategic leadership and vision for Unit 42s Cloud Security Assessment services ensuring alignment with customer needs industry best practices and Unit 42s transformation strategy
Own and drive success across all Cloud Assessment KPIs including revenue utilization delivery quality customer satisfaction and Security Transformation Program (STP) contribution
Lead the ongoing maturation of cloud security methodologies deliverables and automation approaches across IaaS PaaS SaaS and hybrid environments
Serve as the executive sponsor strategic advisor and delivery lead for complex client engagements guiding secure cloud architecture and remediation strategies
Advise executive stakeholders on cloud security posture identity management configuration gaps and detection capabilities across major cloud providers (AWS Azure GCP)
Embed Palo Alto Networks technologies (e.g. Cortex Cloud Prisma Access NGFW Cortex XDR) into service delivery to maximize client value and risk reduction
Lead delivery staffing resource forecasting and team performance tracking to meet quality demand and efficiency targets
Lead and mentor a highperforming team of Directors and consultants fostering career growth technical depth and leadership capability
Collaborate with GTM teams to shape cloud security messaging scope new opportunities and support business development through executivelevel engagement
Lead or support the development of complex cloud security proposals statements of work and client roadmaps
Build and maintain longterm trusted advisor relationships with strategic customers and Unit 42 retainer clients
Represent Unit 42 at industry events conferences and forums enhancing our market reputation as a thought leader in cloud security
Author and contribute to whitepapers blogs and internal training content to elevate Unit 42s internal capability and external brand in the cloud domain
Influence Unit 42s cloud services roadmap by identifying gaps client feedback and market needs in collaboration with product and innovation teams
Track evolving threats compliance mandates and architectural trends across multicloud environments to inform the evolution of service offerings
Qualifications :
Your Experience
10 years of experience in cybersecurity with 5 years focused on cloud security services architecture or assessments
7 years managing consulting delivery teams or leading security services at the Director level or higher
Deep technical experience with cloudnative security architectures cloud misconfiguration risks and identity and access controls across AWS Azure and GCP
Proven expertise with CNAPP CSPM IAM logging and zero trust architecture in multicloud environments
Strong understanding of cloudspecific threats frameworks (e.g. NIST CSF CIS Benchmarks CSA CCM) and compliance models
Experience with tools and scripting for validation configuration management and assessment automation (e.g. Terraform CloudFormation Python Bash)
Demonstrated success in building scaling and optimizing cloud security consulting services and delivery teams
Strong executive presence and ability to influence CISOs CTOs and Boards with clarity and credibility
Experience supporting presales and GTM efforts including scoping solutioning and closing strategic consulting engagements
Knowledge of Palo Alto Networks Prisma Cloud and broader platform offerings
Bachelors Degree required; Masters Degree or relevant certifications (e.g. CCSK CCSP AWS/Azure/GCP Architect CISSP) strongly 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 $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.
Remote Work :
Yes
Employment Type :
Fulltime
Employment Type
Remote
