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.
Who We Are
We take our mission of protecting the digital way of life seriously. We are relentless in protecting our customers and we believe that the unique ideas of every member of our team contributes to our collective success. Our values were crowdsourced by employees and are brought to life through each of us every day - from disruptive innovation and collaboration, to execution. From showing up for each other with integrity to creating an environment where we all feel included.
As a member of our team, you will be shaping the future of cybersecurity. We work fast, value ongoing learning, and we respect each employee as a unique individual. Knowing we all have different needs, our development and personal wellbeing programs are designed to give you choice in how you are supported.
Job Description
Your Career
The Principal Consultant 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 client’s advocate for cybersecurity best practices and will provide strong recommendations in this domain.
Your Impact
- Assist in the development of internal infrastructure design for research, development, and testing focused on offensive security.
- Conduct scans of networks to find and detect vulnerabilities.
- Employ penetration testing methodologies to find exploitable vulnerabilities or weaknesses, using open-source, custom, and commercial testing tools.
- Conduct scoping engagements by clearly articulating various penetration approaches and methodologies to audiences ranging from highly technical to executive personnel.
- Report generation that clearly communicates testing and assessment details, results, and remediation recommendations to clients.
- Develop scripts, tools, and methodologies to automate and streamline internal processes and engagements.
- Conduct IT application testing, cybersecurity tool and systems analysis, system and network administration, and systems engineering support for the sustainment of information technology systems.
- Conduct threat hunting and/or compromise assessment engagements to identify active or dormant indicators of compromise (IoCs).
- Assist in the development of security standards and best practices for the organization and recommend security enhancements as needed.
- Able to conduct cyber risk assessments using frameworks or standards like NIST CSF, ISO 27001/2, PCI, CIS Top 20, CMMC, or other industry measurement tools.
- Conduct cloud penetration testing engagements to assess specific workloads for vulnerabilities and subsequently attempt to exploit identified weaknesses.
- Provide recommendations to clients on specific security measures to monitor and protect sensitive data and systems from infiltration and cyber-attacks.
- Ability to perform travel requirements as needed to meet business demands (on average 20%).
- Ability to work onsite within a classified environment at an approved US military installation.
Qualifications
Your Experience
- 6+ years of professional experience in an offensive security role, resulting in subject matter expertise in at least three core service offerings.
- Experience managing a team of consultants.
- Demonstrate a deep understanding of how malicious software works.
- Ability to modify known and/or craft custom exploits in a manner that evades detection from prominent EDRs.
- Strong knowledge of tools and techniques used to conduct network, wireless, and web application penetration testing.
- Familiarity with web application penetration testing and code auditing to find security gaps and vulnerabilities.
- Knowledge and experience in conducting cyber risk assessments using industry standards.
- Experience with penetration testing, administering, and troubleshooting major flavors of Linux, Windows, and major cloud IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS providers.
- Experience with scripting and editing existing code and programming using one or more of the following - Perl, Python, ruby, bash, C/C++, C#, or Java.
- Experience with industry standard tools.
- Knowledge of application, database, and web server design and implementation.
- Knowledge of network vulnerability assessments, web and cloud application security testing, network penetration testing, red teaming, security operations, or 'hunt'.
- Knowledge of open security testing standards and projects.
- Ability to scope new opportunities with prospective clients, including drafting statements of work and proposals.
- Identified ability to grow into a valuable contributor.
- Bachelor’s Degree in Information Security, Computer Science, Digital Forensics, Cyber Security, or equivalent experience.
Mandatory DoD Security Clearance Requirements: This position requires an active DoD clearance at the Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI) level; Counterintelligence Scope Polygraph preferred but not required.
Mandatory Location and Onsite Support Requirements: All applicants must live near a major US military installation to facilitate support for an ongoing DoD contract.
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.
Compensation Disclosure
The compensation offered for this position will depend on qualifications, experience, and work location.
Our Commitment
We’re problem solvers that take risks and challenge cybersecurity’s status quo. It’s simple: we can’t accomplish our mission without diverse teams innovating, together.
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 legally protected characteristics.
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
Is role eligible for Immigration Sponsorship? No.
