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

Overview

This role is client-facing and requires the Principal Consultant to lead and deliver proactive services engagements focused on incident preparedness. The Principal Consultant will work with multiple customers and stakeholders to manage and deliver proactive incident preparedness engagements, as well as broader proactive assessments and services.

Responsibilities

• Lead 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 documents supporting holistic business resilience
• Plan and deliver a range of TTXs, including writing post-exercise reports with detailed analyses and recommendations for improvement
• Manage and contribute to incident preparedness and other cybersecurity engagements from initial scoping through delivery
• Travel as needed to meet business demands (approximately 20%)

Qualifications

• 8+ years of incident preparedness and/or incident response consulting experience with a strong interest in cyber security
• Experience leading and delivering complex engagements including scoping, client interfacing, and executing incident preparedness or IR projects
• Incident response consulting experience required; incident preparedness experience is a core focus of the role
• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Security, Computer Science, Cyber Security or related field, or equivalent experience

Additional Information

This is a remote role inviting applicants based in Germany, France, Spain, Italy and UAE. Local in-country language is required.

Unit 42 Consulting is Palo Alto Networks’ security advisory team. We are an equal opportunity employer and celebrate diversity in the workplace. We provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. All information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.