Cortex XSIAM Deployment Lead

OpticoreIT Limited; Greater London; Remote; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Opticore IT is seeking a Palo Alto Cortex Consultant to join our security-focused team on a 12-month contract based across Europe, with central responsibilities delivering Cortex XSIAM deployments for enterprise customers.

You will act as SME for Cortex XSIAM, lead deployment from discovery to operationalisation, and work with security and infrastructure teams to implement data onboarding, detections, analytics and automation.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of customer-facing cybersecurity or security operations experience.
• 3+ years deploying Cortex XSIAM in enterprise environments.
• Strong experience with SIEM architectures, data onboarding and use-case development.
• Proven ability to lead technical engagements with enterprise customers.
• Fluent in Spanish and English; comfortable in remote, client-facing settings.

Responsibilities

• Lead the technical implementation and deployment of Palo Alto Networks Cortex XSIAM across enterprise customer environments.
• Act as the senior technical point of contact for customers throughout the deployment lifecycle.
• Work with customer security and infrastructure teams to understand existing SOC, SIEM, EDR, SOAR and threat intelligence capabilities.
• Design and implement XSIAM solutions aligned to customer security requirements and operational objectives.
• Lead migration from legacy SIEM and security platforms into Cortex XSIAM.
• Configure and onboard data sources, endpoints, applications, network infrastructure and security technologies into XSIAM.
• Develop and implement integrations with third-party security and IT platforms.
• Configure detection, analytics, automation, incident response and operational workflows.
• Help customers maximise the value of XSIAM's AI-driven detection, investigation and response capabilities.
• Support the development and optimisation of SOC processes and use cases.
• Provide technical leadership during customer workshops, design sessions and deployment activities.
• Troubleshoot complex technical issues and act as an escalation point during deployments.
• Work closely with Palo Alto Networks and partner teams to ensure successful project delivery.
• Produce technical documentation, deployment plans, configuration standards and operational handover documentation.
• Provide knowledge transfer and technical enablement to customer security teams.
• Identify opportunities to improve customer security operations through automation, analytics and additional Cortex capabilities.
• Support multiple customer engagements across Spain and EMEA, managing competing priorities while maintaining a high standard of technical delivery.

Skills

Palo Alto Cortex XSIAM

SIEM deployment

SOC operations

Technical leadership

Customer-facing

Spanish fluency

Tools

SIEM platforms

Job description

Opticore IT is seeking a Palo Alto Cortex Consultant to join our security-focused team on a 12-month contract based across Europe, with central responsibilities delivering Cortex XSIAM deployments for enterprise customers.

You will act as SME for Cortex XSIAM, lead deployment from discovery to operationalisation, and work with security and infrastructure teams to implement data onboarding, detections, analytics and automation.