Consulting Director, DFIR, Reactive Services (Unit 42) - Remote

Your Career

Consulting Director Reactive Services is a seniorlevel consulting position.  The individual will provide expertlevel guidance on all areas of cybersecurity and data breach response to Unit 42 clients across a wide array of industries geographies and organizational structures.  They will be the clients advocate for cybersecurity and will provide strategic and technical leadership in this area.

Your Impact

• You are an Industryrecognized inspiring leader with media and public speaking experience deeply embedded in information security community

• Experience with forensic processes and procedures (chain of custody computer acquisition techniques and memory acquisition techniques)

• Maintain hypercurrent knowledge of extant vulnerabilities and threat landscape

• Experience using forensics tools such as EnCase FTK SleuthKit Volatility etc.

• Analysis experience and operational understanding of one or more major operating systems (Microsoft Windows Linux or Mac)

• Knowledge of common malware persistence mechanisms

• Experience identifying and triaging malware

• Experience leading technical breach response teams in fastpaced environment

• 10 years of handson consulting experience in digital forensics and incident response

Qualifications :

Your Experience 

• Strategic mindset but also detailoriented and handson ability to lead highlevel discussion on DFIR technology strategy and approach both internally and externally

• Demonstrated selfstarter with intellectual curiosity and ability to adapt to change

• Ability to work quickly willingness to work on ad hoc assignments work independently or leading teams as needed

• Strong written and verbal communication skills

• Ability to develop unique and creative solutions to problems on the fly

• Willingness to learn new technologies and techniques to solve complex customer issues

• Ability to manage clients lead meetings and manage multiple project teams concurrently

• Ability to quickly develop and maintain rapport with clients 

• Demonstrated ability to crosssell or upsell existing clients and generate new business

• Experience managing complex budgets

• Ability to allocate staff to various projects quickly and efficiently

• Willingness to travel as required (up to 20%) to support leadership customer briefings planning and other activity as needed

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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