Principal Professional Services Consultant - jobs at Palo Alto in India, Mumbai

Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.

Your Career

The Principal, Technical Program Management is a senior-level role dedicated to supporting and leading large, complex consulting engagements and security transformation programs across the EMEA region. This individual reports directly to the VP for Unit 42 in EMEA and partners with Unit 42 leadership to drive high-stakes client and internal programs. The role focuses on ensuring successful execution of all Digital Forensics and Incident Response (DFIR) and Proactive Services engagements. This position serves as the VP's core strategic partner, translating executive vision into actionable program execution and ensuring the operational excellence of the EMEA consulting practice.

Your Impact

This role serves as the central driver for program delivery and client satisfaction, ensuring the successful execution and strategic maturity of client cybersecurity initiatives.

Strategic Operations & Practice Management

• Serve as a key advisor to the VP, helping to develop, cascade, and track the Unit’s annual strategic plans.

• Drive the "rhythm of the business" for the EMEA leadership team, including the planning and execution of QBRs, partner meetings, and executive offsites.

• Analyze practice performance dashboards (utilization, realization, project profitability, pipeline) to identify operational bottlenecks and drive efficiency.

• Lead cross-functional "special projects" on behalf of the VP (e.g., new market entry, internal transformation, service offering development).

Program Leadership & Client Transformation

• Lead large and complex security transformation and cyber uplift programs for clients, including managing strategic maturity roadmaps and supporting cyber security strategies.

• Elevate program management to a portfolio level, ensuring consistency and quality across the region.

• Serve as the program management expert, aligning execution with best practices across a multi-project portfolio.

• Manage all projects effectively by defining goals based on Statements of Work (SOWs) while ensuring alignment with internal margin and profitability targets.

• Drive outcomes by leading GCO programs and supporting DFIR/Proactive engagements.

• Proactively manage risk and scope: Recognize organizational or system-wide risks and create comprehensive program risk management plans. Drive scope-versus-schedule/budget discussions to conclusion.

• Rally the team to quick and effective outcomes and demonstrate expertise in leading high-pressure situations, including operating/leading war-rooms.

• Partner with Engagement Leads to ensure projects adhere to budget/time frame guidelines and to increase client satisfaction and deepen relationships.

Strategic Consulting & Stakeholder Management

• Operate at technical, CxO, and board levels, acting as a trusted advisor to clients with considerable cybersecurity and security transformation experience across EMEA.

• Prepare high-stakes presentations, briefing documents, and financial models for customer events, and internal leadership reviews.

• Possess the necessary consulting, program, and change management skills to gain credibility and trust with complex stakeholders.

• Effectively articulate market themes driving client transformation, including the legal/regulatory landscape, budgetary concerns (TCO/ROSI), 3rd party risk, and the evolving threat landscape.

• Develop strong partnerships with internal and external stakeholders and cross-organizational leaders to achieve mutually successful results.

• Guide technical team members, ensure task execution, and maintain a strong understanding of Unit 42 skill sets to assist leadership with staffing needs.

• Understand threat-led, data-driven consulting and possess sufficient technology and cybersecurity experience to be able to learn our products and services.

Your Experience

• 10+ years of professional experience with a blend of external client delivery and internal business operations.

• Specialization in one or more of the following: transformative IT, Cybersecurity, Digital Forensics, Incident Response, or Management Consulting Operations.

• Demonstrated experience supporting senior executives in a Portfolio Management, Strategy, or Practice Operations capacity.

• Strong business acumen: Deep understanding of professional services P&L, sales cycles, and resource management economics.

• Bachelor’s degree in MIS, Cybersecurity, Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent work/military experience.

• Proven ability to lead multiple large-scale projects, creating plans, ensuring on-time execution, and managing documentation.

• Exceptional ability to synthesize complex information into clear, actionable insights for executive leadership (strong presentation development and spreadsheet skills required).

• Demonstrated ability to work autonomously, prioritize projects, solve problems requiring meticulous attention to detail, and communicate effectively with stakeholders at all levels.

• Ability to maintain confidentiality, communicate effectively in both verbal and written form, and be flexible to work nights, weekends, and holidays as needed.

Preferred Qualifications

• 10+ years experience delivering a wide range of cybersecurity consulting services..

• Previous direct client/customer consulting experience.

• Strong proficiencies with Google Suite, Asana, and Clarizen.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.

Your Career

As a Principal Consultant for SOC Transformation & XSIAM Deployment, you will be a seasoned leader at the forefront of our most strategic customer engagements. You will leverage a rare blend of consultative presence, deep technical mastery, and executive influence to guide our customers through complex Security Operations Center (SOC) transformations. Your primary role is to drive these large-scale programs, ensuring the successful execution of foundational elements like seamless log migration and the development of sophisticated detection strategies, to deliver measurable security outcomes in highly dynamic enterprise environments.

Your Impact

• Serve as the lead strategic advisor and subject matter expert for customers undertaking a full-scale SOC modernization with XSIAM
• Lead multi-national SOC transformation programs, consolidating fragmented detection and response processes into a unified, AI-driven platform
• Direct enterprise-scale XSIAM deployments, guiding customers from initial strategy to full operationalization
• Devise and oversee comprehensive log ingestion strategies to ensure high-quality data fuels the XSIAM platform
• Architect and implement sophisticated detection strategies and correlation rules to fortify customer defenses against advanced threats
• Fine-tune and optimize log sources and correlation rules to maximize system performance and detection efficacy
• Identify opportunities to enhance analyst alert handling and response through automation
• Transform ambiguity into structured action plans, driving accountability at every level of a customer engagement
• Build and mentor high-performing professional services teams that blend consulting, engineering, and change management expertise
• Partner with Product and R&D teams to incorporate field insights into roadmap priorities

Your Experience

• The candidate should have demonstrated experience running a Security Operations Center (SOC), with a proven track record of modernizing operations through automation, AI-driven threat detection, and measurable improvements in Mean Time to Detect (MTTD) and Mean Time to Respond (MTTR)."
• Exceptional executive presence, with strong verbal and written communication skills to engage with stakeholders from the SOC analyst to the CISO
• Experience acting as a trusted advisor to senior security leaders, with the ability to diagnose challenges and deliver strategic recommendations
• 10+ years of hands-on experience in deploying and integrating SIEM/security analytics solutions within large enterprise environments
• 8+ years of experience with Security Operations Center (SOC) tooling, processes, and workflows
• Hands-on technical mastery across SIEM, SOAR, EDR, cloud security, and threat intelligence
• Ability to conceive, architect, and develop effective correlation and detection rules
• Familiarity with a range of SIEM technologies, such as Splunk and IBM QRadar, is a plus
• Strong expertise in Regular Expressions (Regex)
• Relevant bachelor's degree or industry-recognized qualifications (CISSP, GIAC, etc.), is a plus

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.

Your Impact

• Collaborate with sales teams to recommend and develop customer solutions within your assigned specialization.
• Present to customers as our expert at all levels in the customer hierarchy, from practitioner to senior leadership.
• Lead and support customer demonstrations that showcase our unique value proposition.
• Responsible for prospective customers and partners' Technical Validation projects based on best practices to ensure technical win in assigned opportunities.
• Architect solutions that will help our customers strengthen and simplify their security posture
• Document high-level design and key use cases to ensure proper implementation and value realization of Palo Alto Networks solutions
• Lead conversations about industry trends and emerging changes to the security landscape.
• Responsible for discussing and highlighting product alignment with customer requirements and differentiation
• As the main technical point of contact for Network Security, you will assist and collaborate to respond effectively to RFIs/RFPs.
• Position Palo Alto Networks or Partner delivered services as appropriate to ensure proper implementation and value realization of Palo Alto Networks solutions
• Discuss, with credibility, competitive offers in the marketplace and position ours as the best alternative

Your Experience

• 5+ years experience in pre-sales/sales engineering within Zero Trust, Networking, Network Security, SaaS Security or SSE/SASE or graduate of Palo Alto Networks Academy Program
• Experience with L2-L4 Networking (L2 Switching architectures including Spanning Tree, VLANs/trunking, IP routing including static routes, OSPF and BGP, route re-distribution, L4 Load-balancing)
• Outstanding customer communication and problem-solving skills
• Experience in working with customers, demonstrating problem-solving skills and a can-do attitude
• Solid understanding of NGFW, Network Security, SASE, SD-WAN, CASB, Proxy, DLP and BYOD Solutions
• Knowledge of On-Premise and Cloud-Delivered Network Security Technologies
• This is a field sales position where travel requirements may be required to support in person customer meetings, please discuss with the recruiter on the specifics for this position.
• Proficient in English

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.

Your Career

As a Principal Consultant for SOC Transformation & XSIAM Deployment, you will be a seasoned leader at the forefront of our most strategic customer engagements. You will leverage a rare blend of consultative presence, deep technical mastery, and executive influence to guide our customers through complex Security Operations Center (SOC) transformations. Your primary role is to drive these large-scale programs, ensuring the successful execution of foundational elements like seamless log migration and the development of sophisticated detection strategies, to deliver measurable security outcomes in highly dynamic enterprise environments.

Your Impact

• Serve as the lead strategic advisor and subject matter expert for customers undertaking a full-scale SOC modernization with XSIAM
• Lead multi-national SOC transformation programs, consolidating fragmented detection and response processes into a unified, AI-driven platform
• Direct enterprise-scale XSIAM deployments, guiding customers from initial strategy to full operationalization
• Devise and oversee comprehensive log ingestion strategies to ensure high-quality data fuels the XSIAM platform
• Architect and implement sophisticated detection strategies and correlation rules to fortify customer defenses against advanced threats
• Fine-tune and optimize log sources and correlation rules to maximize system performance and detection efficacy
• Identify opportunities to enhance analyst alert handling and response through automation
• Transform ambiguity into structured action plans, driving accountability at every level of a customer engagement
• Build and mentor high-performing professional services teams that blend consulting, engineering, and change management expertise
• Partner with Product and R&D teams to incorporate field insights into roadmap priorities

Your Experience

• The candidate should have demonstrated experience running a Security Operations Center (SOC), with a proven track record of modernizing operations through automation, AI-driven threat detection, and measurable improvements in Mean Time to Detect (MTTD) and Mean Time to Respond (MTTR)."
• Exceptional executive presence, with strong verbal and written communication skills to engage with stakeholders from the SOC analyst to the CISO
• Experience acting as a trusted advisor to senior security leaders, with the ability to diagnose challenges and deliver strategic recommendations
• 10+ years of hands-on experience in deploying and integrating SIEM/security analytics solutions within large enterprise environments
• 8+ years of experience with Security Operations Center (SOC) tooling, processes, and workflows
• Hands-on technical mastery across SIEM, SOAR, EDR, cloud security, and threat intelligence
• Ability to conceive, architect, and develop effective correlation and detection rules
• Familiarity with a range of SIEM technologies, such as Splunk and IBM QRadar, is a plus
• Strong expertise in Regular Expressions (Regex)
• Relevant bachelor's degree or industry-recognized qualifications (CISSP, GIAC, etc.), is a plus

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.

Your Impact

• Design, develop, test and release prevention and detection systems against modern Web attacks to protect enterprise customers around the globe

• Research and construct new automated and ML/AI powered solutions to identify malicious indicators used by malicious websites and URLs

• Leverage frontier technologies in ML and AI, as well as other data-driven techniques

• Implement and maintain complex software pipelines and data infrastructure with challenging requirements for high quality and performance

• Work closely with threat researchers and other teams to gather requirements, design architecture and write design documents

• Work closely with QA and infrastructure teams to deliver high quality products

• Improve product development and release processes

• Demonstrate good software development practices and coach the team in improving coding standards

Your Experience

• Fullstack engineer who can learn and adapt to new programming languages and technologies to implement novel end-to-end solutions

• Creative thinker and team player with a passion for building high quality, complex systems as a part of an incredible research team

• Passion for Web Security and experience with cyber security fundamentals are required

• Basic knowledge in machine learning and experience with applying ML or implementing ML pipelines are required

• Experience with malicious URL detection and malware traffic analysis is a plus

• Experience with crawling infrastructures and security scanners is a plus

• Experience with web browser security development and browser extensions is a plus

• Strong engineering skills and experience with designing software architecture

• Advanced programming skills in Python, JavaScript, shell scripting

• Advanced programming skills in Golang is a plus

• Knowledge and experience with modern databases and big data tools (such as ELK stack, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, Kafka, etc.)

• Knowledge of cloud computing platforms, such as GCP, AWS, Azure

• Advanced experience with GCP technologies (GKE, Pub/Sub, Bigtable, BigQuery, Dataflow, Dataproc) is a plus

• Experience with developing REST APIs and microservices

• Knowledge and experience with Docker and Kubernetes

• Experience with unit testing and regression testing, delivering a high-quality code

• Familiar with CI/CD pipelines and source control best practices

• Familiar with application security best practices

• Strong organizational, communication and presentational skills

• Past work experience in early-stage, fast-growth startups is a plus

• Past experience on open source projects is a plus

• Must have 3+ years software engineering experience

Compensation Disclosure

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/commissioned roles) is expected to be between $126000/YR - $204500/YR. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found .

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.

Your Impact

• Analyze supplier spend, performance, and risk metrics to support supply base strategies and cost-reduction initiatives
• Lead cross-functional projects focused on AI integration, supply chain optimization, and automation opportunities
• Develop and maintain dashboards and reports in Tableau, Pigment, Google Sheets, and Excel to provide actionable insights to stakeholders
• Utilize SAP for data extraction, supplier management, and spend analysis
• Collaborate with Procurement, Engineering, Finance, and Operations teams to support data-driven decision-making processes
• Design predictive models and what-if scenarios to assess supply chain risks and opportunities
• Implement AI tools such as Gemini and ChatGPT to streamline reporting, forecasting, and communication processes
• Ensure data accuracy and integrity across all reporting systems and processes
• Provide ad hoc analyses and presentations for executive leadership to support strategic supply chain initiatives
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives by identifying process gaps and recommending enhancements using data insights

Your Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Data Analytics, Business, or a related field. Master’s degree is a plus or equivalent military experience required
• 5+ years of experience in supply chain data analytics, preferably within Supply Base Management
• Proficiency in SAP, Pigment, Tableau, Google Sheets, and Microsoft Excel (advanced functions, pivot tables, and macros)
• Hands-on experience using AI tools such as Gemini and ChatGPT for automation and process improvements
• Strong knowledge of supply chain processes, supplier management, and procurement analytics
• Experience managing large datasets, performing data mining, and developing KPIs
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to translate complex data into clear, actionable insights
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional projects and collaborate with diverse teams
• Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail, with a continuous improvement mindset
• Familiarity with programming languages (e.g., Python, SQL) for advanced analytics is a plus

Compensation Disclosure

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/commissioned roles) is expected to be between $135,000/YR - $186,000/YR. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found .

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.

Your Career

As a Domain Consultant you will be the expert for our Cortex portfolio, a Next-Gen AI-powered security operations platform. You will play a key role in defining technical solutions that secure a customer’s key business imperatives.

Your Impact

• Collaborate with account teams to recommend and develop customer solutions within your assigned specialization area
• Present to customers as our expert at all levels in the customer hierarchy, from practitioner to senior leadership
• Lead and support customer demonstrations that showcase our unique value proposition
• Scope and Lead Proof of Value (PoV) projects for prospective customers based on best practices to ensure technical win in your assigned opportunities
• Drive high technical validation and PoV win rates within your assigned specialization area
• Architect solutions that will help our customers strengthen and simplify their security posture
• Accelerate technical validation of proposed solutions within your specialization
• Document High-Level Design and Key Use Cases to ensure proper implementation and value realization of Palo Alto Networks Solutions
• Help our customers build and develop further their services around Cortex solutions
• Lead conversations about industry trends and emerging changes to the security landscape
• Discuss, with credibility, competitive offers in the marketplace and position ours as the best alternative
• Assist account solutions consultants to respond effectively to RFIs/RFPs while serving as the main technical point of contact for Cortex
• Position Palo Alto Networks or Partner delivered services as appropriate to ensure proper implementation and value realization of Palo Alto Networks solutions

Your Experience

• Deep experience with security incident response, both IR tools and IR workflow process or SOC operational processes
• Strong technical hands-on experience (At least 5+ years) with EDR/XDR
• Experience around SOAR and SIEM will be an added advantage
• Strong practical experiences with threat hunting, malware, exploits and be able to demonstrate simulation of cyber attacks
• Experience installing, configuring and integrating a complex Security environment
• Experience with Security Analytics or Threat Intel is a plus
• Deep understanding of Unix/Linux and Windows operating systems and scripting skill in Python/JavaScript/PowerShell is an advantage
• Strong problem finding and solving skills, ability to analyze complex multivariate problems and use a systematic approach to gain quick resolution
• 8+ years of experience in a customer facing role
• Strong English language skills, both oral and written - Ability to confidently present with impact to an audience in person and remotely
• A team player - ability to share knowledge openly, interact with integrity, embrace diversity
• A Self-Starter, self-motivated and a quick learner with the ability to embrace change - the Cortex portfolio is always evolving and as a technical Specialist your expertise must be at the leading edge

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

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