Cortex XSIAM Security Consultant (Remote)

Jobs Paloaltonetworks; Texas; Hybrid; USD 144,000 - 198,000; Full time

Job summary

Palo Alto Networks in the United States (Texas) seeks an experienced Professional Services Consultant to help customers securely integrate and automate their cloud environments, focusing on Cortex XSIAM adoption. You will guide complex deployments, develop automation workflows, and drive continuous improvement with real-time support.

Collaborating with SOC analysts to CISOs, you will design onboarding strategies, build detection rules, and deliver technical design documentation, while traveling

Qualifications

• 4+ years of hands-on experience deploying, integrating, and managing enterprise SIEM solutions.
• Experience building playbooks, configuring correlation rules, and managing Cortex ecosystem content.
• Proficiency in Python for security tool integration and regex log parsing.
• Experience with RESTful APIs and JSON.
• Strong written and verbal presentation skills with technical design documentation.
• Travel up to 10% for on-site meetings.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement onboarding, ingestion, and parsing strategies for Cortex XSIAM.
• Build and fine-tune correlation and detection rules across endpoints, networks, and cloud.
• Monitor and tune log sources, ingestion rates, and detection logic for efficiency.
• Analyze manual SOC processes and transform them into automated, scalable workflows with XSIAM playbooks.
• Deploy and manage content packs, layouts, and dashboards for security use cases.
• Serve as a trusted SME on Cortex XSIAM, SIEM architecture, and SOAR best practices.
• Partner with security stakeholders to define metrics and automation roadmaps.
• Create technical design documentation for long-term customer autonomy.

Skills

SIEM deployment

Playbooks automation

Python scripting

REST APIs & JSON

Technical writing

Problem solving

Customer consultation

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Tools

Cortex XSIAM

SIEM content packs

XSOAR

Python

Job description

Palo Alto Networks in the United States (Texas) seeks an experienced Professional Services Consultant to help customers securely integrate and automate their cloud environments, focusing on Cortex XSIAM adoption. You will guide complex deployments, develop automation workflows, and drive continuous improvement with real-time support.

Collaborating with SOC analysts to CISOs, you will design onboarding strategies, build detection rules, and deliver technical design documentation, while traveling