Senior Consultant, Proactive Services; Unit

Senior Consultant, Proactive Services (Unit 42)

Location:

London, England, United Kingdom

Mission:
Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life. Vision: A world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before.

This role is remote, but distance is no barrier to impact. Our hybrid teams collaborate across geographies to solve big problems, stay close to our customers, and grow together. You will be part of a culture that values trust, accountability, and shared success where your work truly matters.

As a Senior Consultant in Unit 42 you will work across proactive cybersecurity domains including Cloud Security, Security Operations, Cyber Risk Management, and Artificial Intelligence in cybersecurity.

• SOC Advisory – 4 years of consulting experience in SOC, security engineering, SIEM administration, incident management, and demonstrated success with serving large, multinational organizations in designing and implementing a security operations program, organizational structures, and capabilities.
• Deep technical knowledge of SIEM platforms, SOAR technologies, EDR/XDR tools, next‑gen firewalls, threat intelligence, and hunting platforms.
• Defensive Security skills (desired).
• Security operations design, engineering, and analysis, investigations, ideally in complex environments, with security event correlations across cloud, network, endpoint, and logs.
• Ability to perform detailed assessments, identify improvement areas, and recommend transformations to protect, detect, and respond to modern threats.
• Experience improving security operations capabilities such as asset visibility, threat detection, automation, case management, and compliance enablement.
• Threat hunting and compromise assessments to identify IoCs or unknown threats.
• Relevant industry certifications: GIAC Defensible Security Architect (GDSA), GIAC Intrusion Analyst (GCIA), GIAC Continuous Monitoring (GMON), CISSP.
• Understanding of cyber risk frameworks or industry standards: NIST 800‑53, ISO 27001/2, PCI, CIS 18, CMMC.
• Principal Cloud Security – 4 years of experience performing cloud security advisement and risk assessments based on industry‑accepted standards.
• Hands‑on experience with AWS, Azure, GCP, etc.
• Experience with a Cloud Application Security Broker – MCAS, Netskope.
• Deep technical knowledge of CASBs, Cloud Platforms, WAF, SSO, Cloud Threats, API Security, Cloud Security Posture Management.
• Former cloud migrations experience.
• Command‑line or scripting knowledge in cloud environments (plus).
• Cloud Security skills (desired).
• Secure software development practices, including Sec Dev Ops .
• Knowledge of OWASP, MITRE ATT&CK, D3
  
  FEND, CIS, NIST CSF, CSA CCM, ISO 27107.
• Relevant industry certifications: CSCP.
• Cyber Risk Management – experience performing threat & risk assessments to support strategies and roadmaps.
• Technical proficiency in cyber risk services: threat, risk, control assessments, secure dev practices, penetration testing, vulnerability assessments.
• Knowledge of applicable laws, compliance regulations, privacy and security frameworks.
• Strong communication and presentation skills.
• Cyber Risk Management skills (desired).
• Experience in threat modelling, application security risk assessments, Sec Dev Ops .
• FAIR Open certified & experience applying FAIR for cyber risk quantification.
• Relevant industry certifications: CISSP, CISM, CISA.

• 4 years of experience performing cybersecurity consulting in at least two of the three domains above, with SME experience in one domain.
• Track record of strengthening existing and developing new client relationships.
• Ability to thrive in a startup environment.
• Willingness to travel as needed to meet business demands.
• Credibility, presence and gravitas to grow into a valuable contributor.
• Deep understanding of PANW products.
• Collaborative, relationship‑building skills across PANW functions, including sales.
• Bachelor's Degree in Information Security, Computer Science, Digital Forensics, Cyber Security or equivalent years of professional experience.

Unit 42 Consulting is Palo Alto Networks’ security advisory team. We aim to create a safer…