Company Description

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.

FLEXWORK is an employee-centric reimagining of how we work. We built FLEXWORK based on employee feedback – it is about flexibility, trust, and choice whenever possible. It’s been a journey of disruption that has yielded the best of our values. We offer as much flexibility as possible, and choices that enable you to be most productive, including benefits that meet your needs and learning opportunities that you feel passionate about.

Job Description

Your Career

Unit 42 is looking for Consultants to work with a single, long-term client across a wide range of unique security and regulatory needs. Unit 42 has nine distinct teams working on this engagement, and understands nobody will have all of the skills listed below - but the ability to be versatile and work across multiple teams is highly desirable.  Unit 42 is looking for someone who can help us help our clients better manage their data risk, exposure, and compliance obligations.

We expect office-based employees to be in the office four days per week, with one day working from where they choose. We believe being together facilitates casual conversations and those magic moments where we can work on issues and ideas informally. These moments build capability and deepen trusted relationships and allow our people to feel safe in taking risks and being disruptive. Like so many companies, we are working through the details and things could change …. but in general if a role is deemed office-based we want our teams to be together four days per week.

Your Impact

• The Consulting Director will manage the priorities of client-focused activities through leveraging their experience within cybersecurity
• Deliver technical, administrative, and operational management of assigned projects for client engagements
• Create clear and attainable project objectives, build project requirements, and manage internal and client expectations within deadlines, scope, and quality
• Communicate complex technical matters in a way both technical and non-technical personnel can understand
• Track program activities and progress from individual task level to strategic forecasts. Identify problems in advance and drive mitigation
• Present and summarize complex, technical findings for legal, management, and other non-technical audiences

Qualifications

Your Experience

• Ideal candidate will have 10+ years of following
• Bachelor’s Degree, or equivalent military experience, preferably in a technical or security-related field
• Self-starter who thrives in ambiguity. Bias towards action and attention to detail required. 
• Program management experience in information security or a related technology field
• People management experience 
• Experience with ensuring appropriate project communication occurs on an on-going basis with internal and external stakeholders at all levels
• Experience in a cross-functional environment and matrixed organization structures
• Ability to keep track of rapidly developing situations and navigate to a successful outcome with little or no direction 
• Other valuable experience includes requirements analysis, resource allocation, P&L oversight, deliverable tracking, scheduling, and related activities
• Basic understanding of networking, mobile development, and web development technologies
• Familiarity with established project/operations management methodologies and technologies (ex: Six Sigma, PMP, Jira, Agile, etc)
• Experience using SQL in a professional setting. Python experience is a plus.
• Software development or scripting experience is a plus
• 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 understanding of PANW products
  • be collaborative and able to build relationships internally, externally, and across all PANW functions, including the sales team

Additional Information

The Team

Unit 42 Consulting is Palo Alto Network's 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 comprised 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

We’re trailblazers that dream big, take risks, and challenge cybersecurity’s status quo. It’s simple: we can’t accomplish our mission without diverse teams innovating, together.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for all qualified individuals with a disability. If you require assistance or accommodation due to a disability or special need, please contact us at [email protected].

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.

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 non-sales roles) or base salary + commission target (for sales/com-missioned roles) is expected to be between $183,500/yr to $252,350/yr. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found here.