Principal Consultant, Offensive Security, Proactive Services (Unit 42) Remote

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 we 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.

As a member of our team, you will be shaping the future of cybersecurity. We work fast, value ongoing learning, and we respect each employee as a unique individual. Knowing we all have different needs, our development and personal wellbeing programs are designed to give you choice in how you are supported. This includes our FLEXBenefits wellbeing spending account with over 1,000 eligible items selected by employees, our mental and financial health resources, and our personalized learning opportunities – just to name a few!

Job Description

Your Career

The Principal Consultant on the Offensive Security team is focused on assessing and challenging the security posture across a comprehensive portfolio of clients. The individual will utilize a variety of tools developed and act as a key team member and leader in client engagements. They will be the client’s advocate for cybersecurity best practices and will provide strong recommendations in this domain.

Your Impact

• Perform red and purple team assessments (with and without industry regulator oversight), assumed breach assessments, ransomware readiness reviews, threat analysis, and social-engineering assessments.
• Develop scripts, tools, and methodologies to automate and streamline internal processes and engagements.
• Conduct cloud penetration testing engagements to assess specific workloads (i.e., AWS, GCP, Azure, containers, or other PaaS and SaaS instances) for vulnerabilities.
• Lead scoping and services overview conversations with clients for prospective engagements in area of expertise.
• Determine processes and procedures to be followed on assignments.
• Lead communications with clients on engagements, including highly technical matters.
• Ability to lead engagement delivery through to completion, manage engagement economics, and uphold high standards of quality.
• Mentor and coach new team members and lead by example.
• Ability to perform travel requirements as needed to meet business demands.

Qualifications

Your Experience

• 8+ years of professional experience with cybersecurity tools, technologies, and methods focused on Red/Purple Teaming.
• Demonstrate a deep understanding of how malicious software works.
• Ability to modify known and/or craft custom exploits manually.
• Ability to create bypasses to security tools and weaponize payloads for delivery on social-engineering engagements.
• Demonstrable experience of evasion techniques.
• Strong experience with Active Directory and attack killchain.
• Experience with penetration testing, administering, and troubleshooting major flavours of Linux, Windows, and major cloud providers.
• Experience with scripting and editing existing code and programming using one or more of the following – Perl, Python, ruby, bash, C/C++, C#, or Java.
• Ability to read and use the results of mobile code, malicious code, and anti-virus software.
• Demonstrable experience of threat-intelligence led red teaming frameworks.
• Track record of championing innovation and improvement initiatives.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Security, Computer Science, Digital Forensics, Cyber Security, or equivalent experience.
• Professional industry certifications such as Offensive Security Certified Expert (OSCE), Offensive Security Certified Professional (OSCP), and others.

This role can be done remotely from UK, Netherlands, Belgium or France.

Additional Information

The Team

Unit 42 brings together our world-renowned threat researchers with an elite team of security consultants to create an intelligence-driven, response-ready organization.

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.

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 legally protected characteristics.

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