Palo Alto Managed Threat Detection Manager Unit MDR - 

United States, California 

740578290

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

Your Career

As a manager, you will join a team of leaders who overlook the Unit 42 MDR team to ensure premium delivery to our customers. You will have a critical role in how the team works, including creation of new processes, methodologies, and capabilities the team requires.

Your Impact

• Hire for and lead a team of MDR Analysts working globally. Guide the team, create and improve processes, methodologies, and capabilities that the team requires to work effectively

• Lead a team that analyzes incidents from real customer environments to identify ongoing threats to customer environments

• Provide critical feedback to different Product, Research, and Engineering teams to help improve the products for the entire Palo Alto Networks’ customer base

• Work closely with Security Research, Threat Intelligence, and Threat Hunting teams to remediate and detect new emerging threats

Your Experience

• At least 3 years of team management experience, global management experience (world-wide team) is a plus

• Great interpersonal skills and a proven experience collaborating with customers

• Understanding of the threat landscape in terms of the tools, tactics, and techniques of attacks, as well as networking and security fundamentals

• Basic hands-on coding skills (e.g. Python)

• Excellent written and oral communication skills

• Experience investigating targeted, sophisticated or hidden threats

  • Background in forensic analysis and incident and response tools to identify a threat and determine the extent and scope of a compromise

  • Experience with investigative technologies such as SIEM, packet capture analysis, host forensics, and Endpoint Detection and Response tools

  • Understanding of how APTs operate and the attack cycle – different attack vectors, propagation and data exfiltration, lateral movement, persistence mechanism, etc.

  • Understanding of how organizations protect themselves from cyber-attacks, what tools are used and what remediation techniques are leveraged

• Advantages

  • Having worked in SOC analysis or an investigation environment

  • Having worked in Incident Response environment

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 $158,000 - $254,000/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.