Technical Director, Proactive Services, DFIR (Unit 42)

Your Career

Technical Director Reactive Services is a senior-level consulting position. The individual will provide expert-level 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

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

Qualifications

Your Experience

• 10 years of incident response or digital forensics consulting experience with a passion for cyber security
• Strong leadership skills including experience managing a team or individuals
• Experience with leading complicated engagements including scoping interfacing with the client and have executed on a technical front 
• Proficient in enterprise-wide mass data acquisition and analysis on the host and network level as well as solutions for cyber forensic and Incident Response scenarios
• Experience with working efficiently on the command line and creating automation for Incident Response scenarios 
• Incident response consulting experience required
• Identified ability to grow into a valuable contributor to the practice and specifically
• Have an external presence via public speaking conferences and/or publications
• Have credibility executive presence and gravitas
• Able to have a meaningful and rapid delivery contribution
• Have the potential and capacity to understand all aspects of the business and an excellent understanding of PANW products
• Collaborative and able to build relationships internally externally and across all PANW functions including the sales team
• Bachelors Degree in Information Security Computer Science Digital Forensics Cyber Security or related field or equivalent military experience required
• Fluency in German and English required

Qualifications :

Your Experience

• 10 years of incident response or digital forensics consulting experience with a passion for cyber security
• Strong leadership skills including experience managing a team or individuals
• Experience with leading complicated engagements including scoping interfacing with the client and have executed on a technical front 
• Proficient in enterprise-wide mass data acquisition and analysis on the host and network level as well as solutions for cyber forensic and Incident Response scenarios
• Experience with working efficiently on the command line and creating automation for Incident Response scenarios 
• Incident response consulting experience required
• Identified ability to grow into a valuable contributor to the practice and specifically
• Have an external presence via public speaking conferences and/or publications
• Have credibility executive presence and gravitas
• Able to have a meaningful and rapid delivery contribution
• Have the potential and capacity to understand all aspects of the business and an excellent understanding of PANW products
• Collaborative and able to build relationships internally externally and across all PANW functions including the sales team
• Bachelors Degree in Information Security Computer Science Digital Forensics Cyber Security or related field or equivalent military 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 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. 

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.

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Remote Work :

Yes

Employment Type :

Full-time