Principal Security Consultant Palo Alto Networks

Summary: The Principal Security Consultant at Palo Alto Networks is a leadership role focused on cybersecurity, requiring extensive experience in consulting and technical expertise. The candidate will be responsible for mentoring team members, delivering complex engagements, and ensuring high-quality client deliverables. A strong background in security domains and the ability to communicate effectively with various stakeholders is essential. This position is remote and emphasizes collaboration with global enterprise and government customers.

Key Responsibilities:

• Play a leadership role in the Product Aligned Services practice for engagement execution.
• Mentor team members of the Product Aligned Services practice engaged on your assignments on security strategy and architectures as well as consulting approach and skillsets.
• Lead the successful delivery of complex engagements involving Palo Alto Networks technology that result in meaningful outcomes to large global enterprise and government customers.
• Participate or lead customer-facing meetings, workshops, or other events related to assigned engagements.
• Have expert-level knowledge in one or more of the following cybersecurity areas: security architecture, cloud security, remote access, SOC operations, networks, protocols, threat management, change management, vulnerability management, and overall cyber security best practices.
• Lead oversight and review of client-facing engagement deliverables to ensure accuracy, quality, and alignment with client expectations.

Key Skills:

• 10-plus years of cybersecurity experience with five or more years background as a practitioner, or industry-facing consultant.
• Minimum of a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Information Security, or related field experience.
• Technical expert in core Palo Alto Networks Strata NGFW and SSE/SD-WAN across a variety of deployment scenarios.
• Highest level of technical pre-sales & post-sales certification(s) focusing on NGFW and Strata SSE/SD-WAN (Prisma Access/SD-WAN).
• Palo Certified Network Security Professional (Legacy PCNSE) (required).
• SSE Engineer & SD-WAN Engineer Specialist certifications (preferred).
• Cloud Security Professional (PCCSE) a plus.
• Demonstrable experience as a project or task lead and working with professionals across organizations.
• Experience defining and scoping consulting engagements, including level of effort preferred.
• Experience leading multifunctional teams in the execution of complex security consulting engagements.
• Knowledge of the various industry and government strategies and standards in privacy and cybersecurity.
• Extensive ability to perform concurrent tasks in complex environments while adjusting priorities.
• Ability to communicate and modify approach, language, and style to different audiences.
• Extensive experience in organizing resources, establishing priorities, and leading security initiatives.
• Must have excellent communication skills, with the ability to clearly convey complex security concepts to both technical and executive audiences, writing skills, and the ability to work with team members at all levels.
• Proven ability to operate effectively in client environments and build trusted relationships with stakeholders up to the executive level.
• Must be a performance-driven team player with a superior attitude.

Salary (Rate): undetermined

City: undetermined

Country: undetermined

Working Arrangements: remote

IR35 Status: undetermined

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Industry: IT