Principal Consultant, SOC Advisory, Proactive Services; Unit - Remote

Position: Principal Consultant, SOC Advisory, Proactive Services (Unit 42)- Remote
Our Mission  At Palo Alto Networks® everything starts and ends with our mission:
Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.
Our vision is a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. We are a company built on the foundation of challenging and disrupting the way things are done, and we’re looking for innovators who are as committed to shaping the future of cybersecurity as we are.
Who We Are  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.
Your Career  This role is client-facing and requires the Principal Consultant to lead and produce deliverables based on cyber risk management (CRM) client engagements. The Principal Consultant will work directly with multiple customers and key stakeholders (Admins, C-Suite, etc) to drive the security priorities of the security operations management, security operations center (SOC) staff, and Information Security team.
Your Impact    Principal Consultants will help drive Proactive Consulting Services with SOC assessments. This individual will be the trusted advisor to grow partnerships and assist customers to get and stay healthy from a cyber security perspective

Lead security audits of client’s security operations program, to include security organization and functions, processes, and technology

Analyze the current level of monitoring and alerting within the enterprise and provide a gap analysis on visibility of assets, log coverage, and detection effectiveness

Conduct general cyber risk assessments using framework or standards like MITRE ATT&CK, NIST 800-61r2, NIST CSF, ISO 27001/2, PCI, CIS Top 2, CMMD, or other industry measurement tools.

Utilize command-line interfaces or graphical user interfaces (GUI) of security tools to conduct technical and control set validation

Assess client security architecture, implementations and integration of security monitoring and endpoint/network and cloud protection tooling to understand the technical implementations of security controls

Assess SOC effectiveness of Vulnerability Management and threat exposure mitigation

Advise and develop SOC initiative roadmaps and recommendations for clients to further secure their environments.

Scope new opportunities with prospective clients, including drafting statements of work and proposals

Your Experience    6-9+ years of experience performing information security advisement and risk assessments based upon industry-accepted standards

3+ years of consulting experience in SOC, security engineering, SIEM administration, or and incident management serving large, multinational organizations

Knowledge or certification in the MITRE ATT&CK framework

Former professional services and consulting experience preferred

Experience managing a team of consultants and large engagements

Hands‑on experience with SIEM engineering or management

Possess a deep technical knowledge in Security Incident and Event Management (SIEM) platforms, Endpoint Protection and Response/Next Gen Protection and Response (EDR/XDR) tools, Next Gen Firewalls, Vulnerability Management, Threat Intelligence and Hunting platforms

Former experience with Security Operations or Cyber Defense Operations

Demonstrates a track record in strengthening existing and developing new client relationships

Knowledge of command-line interfaces or scripting tools in security tools is a plus

Ability to scope new opportunities with prospective clients, including drafting statements of work and proposals

Ability to perform travel requirements as needed to meet business demands (on average 30%)

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

be able to have a meaningful and rapid delivery contribution

have the potential and capacity to understand all aspects of the business and an excellent…