Consulting Director, Cloud Security, Proactive Services (Unit 42)
The Consulting Director will help drive Proactive Consulting Services with Cloud Customers. This senior-level consultant will be the trusted advisor to grow partnerships and assist customers from a healthy cybersecurity perspective
Serve as a key contributor to the development, maturation, and innovation of cloud security consulting services
Conduct security configuration audits of client cloud administration consoles against industry-standard frameworks\, best practices and threats.
Architectural overviews of client cloud environment networking edge protections
Analyze the current level of monitoring and alerting within cloud-hosted infrastructure and environments and provide a gap analysis on log coverage
Conduct reviews of cloud identity management methodologies including federation, delegation of rights, conditional access, and multi-factored authentication
Utilize command-line interfaces of cloud-hosted environments to conduct technical and control set validation
Assess client implementations of multi-cloud and hybrid-cloud environments by understanding the technical implementations of both on-premises infrastructure and other cloud environment dependencies
Advise and develop cloud security initiative roadmaps for clients further to secure their cloud environment and interactions with on-premises infrastructure
Leverage the PANW cloud platform product platform, Prisma, to continue to enhance Unit 42’s cloud security consulting delivery capabilities
Engage in a pre-sales capacity with client prospects, discovering customer pain related to their cloud environment operations and threats.
Identify gaps and alignment of Unit 42 solutions to customer pains and craft and deliver communications that clearly position the solution value and impact to key target outcomes.
Support engagement teams in their abilities to address and overcome deep technical objections to recommendations that arise throughout the delivery process.
Further the team’s ability to speak to the alignment of recommendations with a client’s unique business process, broader strategic landscape or specific initiatives or risk mitigation or resource allocation.
Lead the practice and invest in developing relationships with clients that further Unit 42’s goals to become a more strategic trusted advisor.
Lead the design, development and delivery of consulting enablement content for Unit 42 consultants.
Assist with Palo Alto Networks product development team’s contributing into feedback loops that work to ensure bi-directional communication about compelling features and capabilities that would benefit Unit 42 consultants (and the broader consulting industry and security practitioners) in assessing and facilitating risk reduction activity.
4+ years of experience performing cloud security advisement and risk assessments based upon industry-accepted standards
6+ years of professional services and consulting experience and 3+ years of Director (or and equivalent Senior Manager) experience leading consulting delivery team’s is highly preferred
Experience managing a diverse team of business and technical consultants
Cloud Security-related certifications preferred
Hands-on experience with a cloud hosting provider (AWS, Azure, GCP, etc).
Deep experience within the cloud native application protection platform (CNAPP) technology or advisory/consulting space.
Strong fluency in the application of Virtual Machines, SaaS, IaaS, PaaS, FaaS and other public cloud technical infrastructure concepts.
Possess a deep technical knowledge in Cloud Platforms and the dependencies around such an environment (WAF, SSO, Cloud Threats, API Security, Cloud Security Posture Management)
Former experience with cloud migrations (cloud to cloud, or on-prem to cloud)
Knowledge of the technical nuances related to SD-WAN and SASE solutions and their application to Cloud Environment access solutions.
10+ years in developing, strengthening and expanding client relationships
Knowledge of how to integrate command-line interfaces or scripting tools as a part of a risk assessment or remediation in cloud environments is a plus.
Rich understanding of how Enterprise’s use and struggle using infrastructure as code and continuous integration tools such as Ansible, Chef, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Packer, Pulumi, Puppet, Saltstack and Terraform or CSP tools such as CloudFormation, Resource Manager or Deployment Manager.
Ability to scope new opportunities with prospective clients, including drafting statements of work and proposals
Ability to perform travel requirements as needed to meet business demands (on average 25%)
Bachelor’s Degree in Information Security, Computer Science, Digital Forensics, Cyber Security OR equivalent years of professional experience to meet job requirements and expectations
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