Senior Consultant, Cloud Security, Proactive Services (Unit 42)

$128,000 - $176,000/Yr

Palo Alto Networks - Santa Clara, CA

Full-time - Mid Level

Santa Clara, CA

Publishing Industries

About the position

This role is client-facing and requires the Senior Consultant to produce deliverables based on proactive services client engagements. The Senior Consultant will work directly with multiple customers and key stakeholders (Admins, C-Suite, etc) to drive the security priorities of the Cloud Platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP) and Cloud Related Applications/Services (CASB). The Senior Consultant will support engagements delivering Proactive Consulting Services with consulting clients. This individual will be a trusted advisor tasked with supporting delivery of contracted services and assisting customers with their cybersecurity posture.

Responsibilities

• Conducting security configuration audits of client cloud administration consoles against industry-standard frameworks and best practices
• Performing architectural overviews of client cloud environment networking edge protections
• Analyzing the current level of monitoring and alerting within cloud-hosted infrastructure and environments and provide a gap analysis on log coverage
• Conducting reviews of cloud identity management methodologies including federation, delegation of rights, conditional access, and multi-factored authentication
• Using command-line interfaces of cloud-hosted environments to conduct technical and control set validation
• Assessing client implementations of multi-cloud and hybrid-cloud environments by understanding the technical implementations of both on-premises infrastructure and other cloud environment dependencies
• Advising on and developing cloud security initiative roadmaps for clients to further secure their cloud environment and interactions with on-premises infrastructure

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience performing cloud security advisement and risk assessments based upon industry-accepted standards
• Former professional services and consulting experience preferred
• Cloud Security-related certifications preferred
• Hands-on experience with a cloud hosting provider (AWS, Azure, GCP, etc.)
• Experience with a Cloud Application Security Broker - MCAS, Netskope
• Possess a deep technical knowledge in CASBs, Cloud Platforms and the dependencies around such an environment (WAF, SSO, Cloud Threats, API Security, Cloud Security Posture Management)
• Former experience with cloud migrations (cloud to cloud, or on-prem to cloud)
• Demonstrates a track record in strengthening existing and developing new client relationships
• Knowledge of command-line interfaces or scripting tools in cloud environments is a plus
• Ability to perform light travel requirements as needed to meet business demands (on average 30%)
• Bachelor's Degree in Information Security, Computer Science, Digital Forensics, Cyber Security OR equivalent years of professional experience or equivalent military experience to meet job requirements and expectations

Benefits

• Compensation offered for this position will depend on qualifications, experience, and work location
• Starting base salary expected to be between $128000 - $176000/YR
• Offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus