Remote Cortex XSIAM Solutions Consultant

Palo Alto Networks, Inc.; Austin (TX); Remote; USD 144,000 - 198,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits (full-time)

Job summary

Palo Alto Networks, Inc. is seeking an experienced Professional Services Consultant to enable customers in securely integrating and automating their cloud environments with Cortex XSIAM.

You will guide complex deployments, develop automation workflows, and drive continuous improvement through real-time support. You will collaborate with SOC analysts to CISOs, ensuring successful adoption and long-term value while delivering technical design documentation and workshops for customer autonomy.

Qualifications

• 4+ years deploying, integrating, and managing enterprise SIEM solutions like Splunk, IBM QRadar, or Microsoft Sentinel.
• Proven experience building playbooks, configuring correlation rules, and managing content and integrations within the Cortex ecosystem.
• Proficiency in Python for security tool integration and automation scripting, with strong Regex capabilities for log parsing.
• Experience working with RESTful APIs, JSON data structures, and third-party security integrations.
• Exceptional written and verbal presentation skills, with a track record of authoring clear technical design documentation.
• Strong analytical mindset capable of troubleshooting complex technical workstreams and integration flows independently.
• Proactive, consultative approach to understanding customer challenges and translating them into actionable engineering requirements.
• Ability to travel occasionally (up to 10%) for on-site customer meetings, strategic workshops, and technical kickoffs.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

SIEM deployment

Python scripting

Regex for log parsing

RESTful APIs

JSON data structures

Technical documentation

Analytical mindset

Travel readiness

Tools

Splunk

IBM QRadar

Microsoft Sentinel

Cortex XSIAM

Job description

Palo Alto Networks, Inc. is seeking an experienced Professional Services Consultant to enable customers in securely integrating and automating their cloud environments with Cortex XSIAM.

You will guide complex deployments, develop automation workflows, and drive continuous improvement through real-time support. You will collaborate with SOC analysts to CISOs, ensuring successful adoption and long-term value while delivering technical design documentation and workshops for customer autonomy.