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Palo Alto Senior Consultant DFIR Reactive Services Unit 
United States, Texas, Austin 
486284900

15.05.2024
Description

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

Your Career

This role is client-facing and requires the Senior Consultant to help lead and produce deliverables based on reactive services client engagements. The Senior Consultant will work directly with multiple customers and key stakeholders (Admins, C-Suite, etc) to lead incident response incidents and guide clients through the engagement from start to finish.

Your Impact

  • Perform reactive incident response functions including but not limited to - host-based analysis functions through investigating Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X systems to identify Indicators of Compromise (IOCs)
  • Examine firewall, web, database, and other log sources to identify evidence and artifacts of malicious and compromised activity
  • Investigate data breaches leveraging forensics tools including Encase, FTK, X-Ways, SIFT, Splunk, and custom Unit 42 investigation tools to determine source of compromises and malicious activity that occurred in client environments
  • Lead incident response engagements to guide clients through forensic investigations, contain security incidents, and provide guidance on longer term remediation recommendations
  • Mentorship of Incident Response Consultants in incident response and forensics best practices
  • Ability to perform light travel requirements as needed to meet business demands (on average 30%)

Your Experience

  • 4+ years of incident response or digital forensics experience with a passion for cyber security
  • Proficient with host-based forensics and data breach response
  • Experienced with EnCase, FTK, X-Ways, SIFT, Splunk, Volatility, WireShark, TCPDump, and open source forensic tools
  • Identified ability to grow into a valuable contributor to the practice and, specifically
    • have an external presence via public speaking, conferences, and/or publications
    • have credibility, executive presence, and gravitas
    • be able to have a meaningful and rapid delivery contribution
    • have the potential and capacity to understand all aspects of the business and an excellent understanding of PANW products
    • be collaborative and able to build relationships internally, externally, and across all PANW functions, including the sales team
  • Incident Response Consulting preferred
  • Bachelor’s Degree in Information Security, Computer Science, Digital Forensics, Cyber Security or related field or equivalent military experience required

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

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/com-missioned roles) is expected to be between $127,600/yr to $175,450/yr. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found .