Principal Consultant, Incident Preparedness - Proactive Services (Unit 42)

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 believe that the unique ideas of every member of our team contribute 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.

Your Career

This role is client‑facing and requires the Principal Consultant to lead and produce deliverables based on proactive services engagements. The Senior Consultant will work directly with multiple customers and key stakeholders (security teams, system and network administrators and owners, C‑Suite, etc.) to manage and deliver proactive incident preparedness engagements, as well as wider proactive assessments and services.

Your Impact

• Lead and contribute to proactive incident preparedness projects, including but not limited to TableTop Exercises (TTX), Incident Response Plans and Response Maturity Assessments.
• Review Crisis Management, Incident Response, Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Plans, and other relevant documents that support holistic business resilience.
• Plan and deliver a range of TTXs, including writing post‑exercise reports that provide detailed analysis and recommendations on areas for improvement.
• Manage and contribute incident preparedness and other cyber security engagements from initial scoping through to delivery.
• Ability to perform travel requirements as needed to meet business demands (on average 20%).

Your Experience

• 8+ years of incident preparedness and/or incident response related consulting experience with a passion for cyber security.
• Experience with leading and delivering complicated engagements including scoping, interfacing with the client, and have executed incident preparedness or IR related projects.
• Incident response consulting experience required. Incident preparedness experience is a must as it will be a core focus of the position.
• Bachelor's Degree in Information Security, Computer Science, Cyber Security or related field or equivalent experience required.

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. Our team is composed of recognized experts and incident responders with deep technical expertise and experience in investigations, data breach response, digital forensics, and information security. With a highly successful track record of delivering mission‑critical cybersecurity solutions, we are experienced in working quickly to provide an effective incident response, attack readiness, and remediation plans with a focus on providing long‑term support to improve our clients' security posture.

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. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for all qualified individuals with a disability. If you require assistance or accommodation due to a disability or special need, please contact us at accommodations@paloaltonetworks.com.

Equal Opportunity Employment

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 age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or other legally protected characteristics. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.