Sr Threat Hunter Researcher jobs at Palo Alto in United Kingdom

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You should also possess a strong reputation for achieving company goals and relationship development with key customer contacts and be an excellent presenter, ranging from tech level up to senior executives.

• Work with your Area Sales VP to develop a technical strategy that accelerates growth of pipeline and sales. Identify key verticals, markets, use cases, and solutions to focus on, and devise a comprehensive strategy and engagement model tailored to the Region (UK, Ireland, Benelux and Nordics).
• Develop and maintain positive relationships with Palo Alto Networks’ partners (reseller, distribution, system integrators, and alliances) through the design, drive and measure of various initiatives (training, evaluation installations, to improve sales productivity through partners, also with focus on ensuring partners drive products in new technology areas
• Demonstrated people leadership skills – including leading through change, coaching managers, demonstrated development plans and execution, reduced attrition results and initiatives, a clear history of promotions and success, etc. Experience of leading teams across multiple countries and cultural nuances.
• Foster channel partner relationships with partner and customer technical leaders
• Drive portfolio sales into the region’s account base and not just single products including selling strategic emerging solutions within a broader portfolio and leading portfolio expansion initiatives, with factual results upselling subscriptions and strategic solutions including cloud delivered services and public cloud security solutions
• Plan and architect compelling technical and business-focused solutions which drive adoption and growth after the initial sale and across the portfolio
• Understand and articulate the key technical, operational, and commercial challenges faced by our prospects and customers that the Palo Alto Networks solution addresses
• Build and maintain relationships with key customers in the territory to solidify reference accounts and to assist the account teams with defining plans to drive more business
• Provide account support through assignments, load balancing, continuity, planning strategically with Sales management, Sales Reps and Technical Solutions, and customer meetings including sales calls, relationship building and problem resolution
• Partner effectively in a matrix manner with extended teams, such as GCS, Finance, HR, Product Management, Marketing, and other relevant organizations
• Act as a skip-level critical issue point for serious and complex pre-sales and post sales technical issues that arise in the region
• Recruit and hire new Technical Solutions Managers into the Region balancing internal hiring and external hiring by building out succession plans.
• Coach, support and develop improved standard methodologies for the Managers in the execution of their duties and responsibilities, including hiring, training and mentoring of new employees on the team;
• Assist with Defining periodic SCE training curriculum, run successful evaluations and timely return of evaluation equipment

Your Experience

• Experience as a Senior pre-sales leader across multiple countries including UK, Nordics, Ireland and Benelux
• Experience in leading a transformation to a platform sell including enabling teams on solution selling
• Industry knowledge of security product market trends and directional awareness of our roadmap and technology development efforts, knowledge of competitor offerings and products
• Knowledge of how to deliver comprehensive security solutions to Palo Alto Networks customer base
• Experience in long term sales plans in order to grow large deals with long term customer relationships.
• Experience in selling, designing, implementing or managing one or more of the following solutions: Network Security, SASE, SaaS, CNAPP and/or SOC Transformation Technologies
• Able to build a high trust culture, where you can address performance issues and reward great performance.
• Partnering with Customer Support functions to ensure successful implementation and adoption of sold solutions
• Strong communication (written and verbal) and presentation skills
• Quota driven attitude focused on client's best solution by being a trusted advisor
• Speaking another language relevant to the area comes as a strong plus.

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

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Your Career

We’re looking for a dynamic Senior Social Media Specialist to join our global social media team in the London office, supporting our brand and campaigns across the EMEA region. In this role, you’ll help shape and share our cybersecurity story across social platforms with a focus on localization, regional amplification, and storytelling that resonates with EMEA audiences.

Your Impact

• Lead the execution of EMEA social media programs in partnership with the global social team, including adapting messaging and assets to resonate with regional audiences
• Create compelling social content for LinkedIn, X, Instagram, Facebook, and Threads, with a focus on regional storytelling and voice
• Partner with campaign managers to localize and amplify case studies, thought leadership, and customer wins across EMEA markets
• Coordinate event coverage and travel for key regional events like Ignite on Tour, capturing moments and developing content in real time
• Craft engaging content for our Employee Advocacy platform to empower regional teams and partners with brand-aligned content
• Manage stakeholder feedback and approvals while keeping projects on track
• Collaborate with designers and video editors (or edit simple graphics/videos yourself) to bring ideas to life
• Monitor and report on key performance metrics, applying insights to optimize strategy
• Participate in social listening activities and share EMEA-specific insights with global teams
• Help manage agency partners to ensure on-time, high-quality deliverables
• Travel is required for this role to support Ignite on Tour

Your Experience

• 4+ years of experience in social media, content marketing, or digital marketing within a B2B or high-tech environment
• Strong writing, editing, and storytelling skills—especially for social-first formats
• Familiarity with EMEA audiences and an understanding of how to adapt content for different cultures and regions
• Experience collaborating with designers and editors; basic design or video editing skills (e.g., PhotoShop, Final Cut) are a strong plus
• Comfortable working in a global, fast-paced environment with shifting priorities
• Experience working with social media scheduling and analytics platforms (e.g., Sprout Social, LinkedIn Campaign Manager)
• A self-starter with solid organizational and project management skills
• Bonus: experience working on influencer programs, customer marketing, or executive social content

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

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Your Impact

• Lead end-to-end analytics program management, including the design, implementation, and optimization of data-driven processes and dashboards for the Technical Solutions organization.

• Develop and automate complex reports and analytical dashboards using advanced tools (e.g., Tableau, Google Sheets, GCP BigQuery, Google Looker Studio, Salesforce, Einstein Analytics, SQL, Python).

• Translate business needs into actionable data insights, proactively identifying trends, opportunities, and risks to inform executive decision-making.

• Collaborate cross-functionally with Sales, Sales Operations, Finance, Human Resources, Product, and Engineering to ensure data integrity, alignment, and execution of strategic initiatives.

• Author high-quality executive summaries, strategic documents, and presentations to communicate complex analytical findings to senior leadership and stakeholders.

• Drive continuous process improvement through data mining, statistical analysis, and the implementation of automation solutions.

• Establish and monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure program effectiveness and support business objectives.

• Ensure best practices in data governance, quality, and security are maintained across all analytics initiatives.

• Mentor and train team members on advanced analytics tools and methodologies, fostering a culture of data literacy and continuous improvement.

Your Experience

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Engineering, Economics, or a related quantitative field.

• Minimum 5 years of experience in analytics program management, data analytics, or a similar role within a technology or consulting environment.

• Demonstrated expertise in data analytics tools and programming languages (e.g., Tableau, Google Sheets, GCP BigQuery, Google Looker Studio, Salesforce Analytics, ETL processes).

• Proven ability to automate complex reporting tasks and build scalable, repeatable analytics solutions.

• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with experience preparing executive-level reports and presentations.

• Advanced critical thinking, problem-solving, and attention to detail, with a track record of delivering error-free, high-impact analytical work.

• Strong strategic planning skills and the ability to independently identify, prioritize, and drive high-value initiatives.

• Experience working with large datasets, data warehousing, and business intelligence concepts.

• Project management certification (e.g., PMP, Lean Six Sigma, CAPM, CSM) is highly preferred.

• Experience in leading cross-functional teams and managing multiple stakeholders with competing priorities.

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

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

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Your Career

As a Principal Engineer, you will be an innovator who can challenge the status quo, thrive in a fast-paced environment, and architect elegant solutions to complex platform-level problems. You will have a massive impact on thousands of engineers by shaping the technical direction of the team and mentoring other engineers to foster a culture of engineering excellence.

This role is located at our dynamic Santa Clara, California headquarters campus.

Your Impact

• You will be responsible for building the next generation of platforms that accelerate product development across the company. The core problems we are solving are foundational and will have a massive impact. If these challenges excite you, you are a great fit for our team.

• Simplify and Automate Onboarding: Design and implement streamlined platforms to radically simplify new customer and new region onboarding, reducing time-to-value and operational complexity.

• Build a Scalable Workflow Service: Own the creation and operation of a "Workflow as a Service" platform, providing reliable, scalable orchestration for various product teams by running technologies like multi-tenant Temporal at scale.

• Champion Cost Optimization: Develop a Central Cost Platform that provides a holistic inventory service, enabling product teams to "shift-left" on cost awareness, eliminate unnecessary infrastructure spending, and auto-remediate regressions.

• Deliver Agentic Compute as a Service: Create a robust agentic compute platform for running standalone agents, providing a secure and vetted environment with managed control plane servers for various agentic workloads.

Your Experience

• We are looking for someone who cares deeply about the technical development of other engineers and can effectively balance the needs of the business, our users, and the growth of our engineers.

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, a related field, or equivalent military experience.

• 7+ years of software engineering experience, with a strong background in building large-scale, distributed systems.

• Proven track record of building SaaS applications and being part of several SaaS release cycles.

• Strong proficiency in at least one of the following languages: Go, Python, or Java, with a proven ability to pick up a new language with ease.

• Deep experience with cloud-native technologies including containerization (Docker) and microservices architecture.

• Decent understanding of core distributed systems principles. You should have an ability to continuously map problems to first principles.

• Familiarity with modern SaaS release models, including feature flags.

• Extensive hands-on experience with at least one major cloud platform (GCP or AWS) is strongly recommended.

• Demonstrated experience mentoring at least two engineers in their career, providing technical guidance, and helping them achieve promotion.

• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to troubleshoot complex issues in a distributed environment.

• Strong communication skills and the ability to work collaboratively across teams.

Nice to Have

• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes. Since we are a platform team and use it extensively, deep K8s knowledge will help you stand out.

• Familiarity with agentic infrastructure and a basic curiosity on how to build and manage intelligent agents.

• Experience building applications with temporal.

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 $173,000/YR - $237,500/YR. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. The description of our employee benefits may be found here.

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

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Your Career

As a Sr. TPE, you will play a key role in providing detailed technical information to our partners, customers, and our internal employees. You will be a strategic adviser to the business, driving valuable insight, guidance and feedback back into Palo Alto Networks. You will work across product teams to deliver this feedback

Your Impact

• Drive innovation within the modern Security Operations Center (SOC) by developing content and capabilities aligned with Cortex and detection-focused workflows
• Collaborate with legal, sales, product, and customer-facing teams to translate security operations needs into actionable product improvements
• Lead and coordinate cross-functional initiatives across product management, engineering, and field teams for high-impact security use cases. Build high-quality content for the Cortex Marketplace including detection rules, parsers, dashboards, and other SOC-enabling artifacts
• Provide structured product feedback to influence roadmap decisions based on real-world SecOps challenges and opportunities
• Create detailed documentation and usage guides tailored for analysts, detection engineers, and security practitioners
• Promote operational excellence by designing scalable detection and response workflows grounded in industry best practices and threat-informed defense

Your Experience

• Ability to inspire and align teams across functions, paired with strong execution and delivery skills.
• 2+ years of experience in security operations, threat detection, incident response, or detection engineering roles
• Solid understanding of SIEM, log analytics, data normalization, and detection lifecycle management (rule creation, tuning, suppression, enrichment)
• Hands-on experience with XSIAM or similar platforms (Splunk, QRadar, Sentinel, etc.) is a strong plus
• Strong technical writing and communication skills, with the ability to convey complex ideas clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Skilled in scripting or automation (Python, JavaScript, etc.) for detection development or incident investigation tasks
• Experience managing multiple projects or programs in dynamic, fast-paced environments with cross-functional visibility
• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, GCP), especially as it relates to telemetry ingestion, detection engineering, or automated response — a significant advantage
• Experience with CNAPP solutions (e.g., Prisma Cloud, Wiz, Orca) and integrating cloud posture, workload protection, or entitlement data into SecOps workflows — an advantage
• Bonus: Exposure to infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD pipelines, or cloud-native services and their intersection with SecOps

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

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Your Impact

• You will act as the main point of contact for all UK&I employees when it comes to high level Tier 1 and Tier 2 work
• Ensure a best in class employee experience through high level of service, empathy and operational excellence
• Embrace a mindset of “executing with excellence” in which you anticipate challenges, diagnose problems, develop and implement robust solutions that enable for amazing execution
• Build strong relationships with other HR teams to coordinate workflow, processes, and communication with key stakeholders; ensure seamless hand-off of processes and deliverables. Important internal partners/customers are: Employee Relations team ,Legal team
• People Business Partners for the markets you are supporting
• Participate in meetings as operational subject matter expert which impact operational design, reporting, or workflows
• Manage and support multiple and concurrent ad hoc requests in a timely manner with accuracy
• Ownership of regional project from end to end with a focus on process automation, simplification and scalability
• Provide employees with exceptional service regarding Tier 1 and Tier 2 HR related inquiries through resolution accountability
• Ensure employee data is up to date, accurate and compliant within our HR system
• Be a subject matter expert for the team in critical HR functions such as Benefits, Compensation, etc.
• Help train, coach and develop team members
• Ensure internal knowledge base is kept up to date and knowledge gaps are addressed in a timely fashion
• Ensure compliance with local rules and regulations regarding ER cases and sick leave cases in close coordination with the CoE’s

Your Experience

• BA/BS degree or equivalent of 4+ years of progressive HR Operations experience in a technology organization or technology-related business, preferably with a multinational company (MNC)
• You have excellent communication skills in English
• Relevant professional HR experience in the UK and good knowledge of local typical legal requirements related to the HR processes around e.g. reference letters, sick leave, maternity leave etc.
• Ability to demonstrate integrity, maintain confidentiality and influence without authority
• Ability to set priorities, stay focused, and manage time in a fast-paced, developing environment
• Ability to establish strong relationships at all levels and across functions, regionally and globally
• Excellent interpersonal skills and demonstrated success working with all levels in an organization
• High level of accuracy and excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a global, dynamic environment. Must be able to operate with limited direction
• Ability to address immediate employee needs, including escalations, while maintaining a view to long-term goals and the organization’s vision and objectives with a continuous improvement mindset
• Relevant experience in HR process design
• Commitment to continuous learning and study of your craft
• Ability to self-direct work and comfortable dealing with ambiguity
• Capable of leading and delivering on regional projects and supporting global ones

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

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Your Career

Palo Alto Networks is seeking a senior Threat Hunter to join Unit 42's Managed Services group. Threat Hunters in Unit 42 play a critical role in safeguarding organizations against cyber threats by proactively searching for threats across multiple datasets. They are responsible for leading and conducting threat hunting activities related to malware, threat actor groups, and campaign activity. This position requires a cross-disciplinary approach that involves a deep understanding of cybersecurity, incident response, threat intelligence, and hands-on technical skills.

One primary responsibility of this role is to proactively search for signs of malicious activity within an organization's network. Our Threat Hunters use advanced tools and methodologies to identify anomalies and potential threats that may go undetected by traditional security solutions. Additionally, our Threat Hunters should actively engage in research and experimentation to develop new hunting techniques and stay ahead of evolving threats.

Your Impact

• Help multinational organizations stay one step ahead of adversaries and cyber threats

• Collaborate and guide our customers on the best ways to enhance their protection and readiness for future events

• Improve Palo Alto Networks' solutions by identifying and analyzing new threats and tactics

• Influence the industry by sharing knowledge and findings

• Collaborate with multiple research and development groups

• Contribute to making the world a safer and better place

Your Experience

• ​​Have or be eligible for UK Security Clearance (SC)

• Understanding the threat landscape, including attack tools, tactics, and techniques, as well as networking and security fundamentals

• Experience investigating targeted, sophisticated, or hidden threats in both endpoints and networks

• 4+ years of relevant experience with a proven track record in cybersecurity research, specializing in either APTs or cybercrime, but with the ability to address the broader threat landscape

• Background in forensic analysis and incident response tools (both Dynamic and Static, such as IDA Pro, Ollydbg, and Wireshark) to identify threats and assess the extent and scope of compromises

• Understanding of APT operations, including attack vectors, propagation, data exfiltration, lateral movement, persistence mechanisms, and more

• Familiarity with organizational cybersecurity measures, including protective tools and remediation techniques

• Excellent written and oral communication skills in English

• Strong attention to detail

• Knowledge of advanced threat hunting methodologies and the ability to develop novel techniques

• Experience in an Incident Response environment is a plus

• Proficiency in Python and SQL is beneficial

• Familiarity with reverse engineering is advantageous

• Ability to simplify and clarify complex ideas

• Experience in writing technical blog posts and analysis reports

• Ability to analyze and understand the infrastructure of malicious campaigns

• Self-starter who can work independently and adapt to changing priorities

Please note that this role requires eligibility for UK Security Check (SC) Clearance. Eligibility includes having spent the last five years in the UK and holding British citizenship. Unfortunately, if you do not meet these requirements, we will be unable to proceed with your application.

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