Senior Incident Readiness Consultant - SOC & Risk Advisory

Jobs Paloaltonetworks; Lombardia; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Palo Alto Networks in Lombardia, Italy seeks a Principal Consultant to lead cyber risk management engagements for client SOC and information security teams, acting as trusted advisor to strengthen cybersecurity posture.

You will work with administrators to C-suite, deliver deliverables, and drive security priorities; travel up to 30% and have deep expertise in SIEM/EDR/XDR and firewall tech.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field or equivalent military experience.
• Master's degree with 6 years of experience, or a PhD with 3 years.
• 8+ years of information security experience, including at least 3 years in a consulting capacity focused on SOC, security engineering, or incident management for large organizations.
• Deep technical knowledge of SIEM platforms, EDR/XDR tools, Next-Gen Firewalls, and Vulnerability Management.

Responsibilities

• Lead comprehensive security audits of client security operations programs, including organization, processes, and technology.
• Analyze security monitoring and alerting to perform a gap analysis on asset visibility, log coverage, and detection effectiveness.
• Conduct cyber risk assessments using MITRE ATT&CK, NIST CSF, and ISO 27001/2.
• Utilize command-line and graphical interfaces of security tools to perform technical validation of security controls.
• Assess client security architecture and the implementation and integration of security monitoring and protection tools.
• Advise on and develop strategic roadmaps with actionable recommendations for clients to mature their SOC capabilities.
• Collaborate with prospective clients to scope new opportunities, including the creation of proposals and statements of work.

Skills

SIEM platforms

EDR/XDR tools

Next-Gen Firewalls

Vulnerability Management

Security advisor relationships

Client stakeholder management

MITRE ATT&CK framework

Python scripting

PowerShell scripting

Education

Bachelor's degree in a relevant field

Master's degree with 6 years of experience

PhD with 3 years of experience

Tools

Python scripting

PowerShell scripting

Job description

Palo Alto Networks in Lombardia, Italy seeks a Principal Consultant to lead cyber risk management engagements for client SOC and information security teams, acting as trusted advisor to strengthen cybersecurity posture.

You will work with administrators to C-suite, deliver deliverables, and drive security priorities; travel up to 30% and have deep expertise in SIEM/EDR/XDR and firewall tech.