Consulting Director

The Consulting Director on the Offensive Security team is focused on assessing and challenging the security posture across a comprehensive portfolio of clients. The individual will utilize a variety of tools developed and act as a key team member and leader in client engagements. They will be the clients advocate for cybersecurity best practices and will provide strong recommendations in this domain.

Your Impact

• Perform red and purple team assessments (with and without industry regulator oversight) assumed breach assessments (red team engagements with a pre-deployed implant) ransomware readiness reviews (assessing susceptibly to modern ransomware threats) threat analysis and social-engineering assessments
• Develop scripts tools and methodologies to automate and streamline internal processes and engagements -Examples include Terraform and Ansible custom payload generators / loaders
• Conduct cloud penetration testing engagements to assess specific workloads (i.e. AWS GCP Azure containers or other PaaS and SaaS instances) for vulnerabilities and subsequently attempt to exploit identified weakness after receiving permission from client stakeholders
• Lead scoping and services overview conversations with clients for prospective engagements in area of expertise presenting with credibility and authority clearly articulating various testing approaches and methodologies to audiences ranging from highly technical to executive personnel
• Determines processes and procedures to be followed on assignments -On large and complex engagements lead technical workstreams with guidance and oversight as required
• Leads communications with clients on engagements including highly technical matters ensuring client inquiries are responded to promptly
• Ability to lead engagement delivery through to completion manage engagement economics to deliver projects on time and on budget and uphold high standards of quality
• Mentor and coach new team members and lead by example demonstrating technical skills and procedures during engagements -Delegate tasks and provide feedback to empower team members to produce high-quality results
• Ability to perform travel requirements as needed to meet business demands

Qualifications : Your Experience

Offensive Security Certified Expert (OSCE)

Additional Information :

The Team

Unit 42 brings together our world-renowned threat researchers with an elite team of security consultants to create an intelligence-driven response ready organization. The Unit 42 Threat Intelligence team provides threat research that enables security teams to understand adversary intent and attribution while enhancing protections offered by our products and services to stop advanced attacks. As threats escalate Unit 42 is available to advise customers on the latest risks assess their readiness and help them recover when the worst occurs.

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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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 : Full-time

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