MDR Manager (Unit 42)

Company Description

Our Mission

At Palo Alto Networks® everything starts and ends with our mission:

Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.

We have the vision of a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. These aren’t easy goals to accomplish – but we’re not here for easy. We’re here for better. We are a company built on the foundation of challenging and disrupting the way things are done, and we’re looking for innovators who are as committed to shaping the future of cybersecurity as we are.

Disruption is at the core of our technology and on our way of work to meet the needs of our employees now and in the future through FLEXWORK, our approach to how we work. We’re changing the nature of work from benefits to learning, location to leadership, we’ve rethought and recreated every aspect of the employee experience at Palo Alto Networks. And because it FLEXes around each individual employee based on their individual choices, employees are empowered to push boundaries and help us all evolve, together.

Job Description

Your Career

We are seeking a driven problem solver to join our Unit 42 MDR team.

Our team is responsible for customers internal security monitoring, threat hunting and incident response. As a MDR Manager, we will rely on you to manage a team of experts who detect and respond to cyber incidents facing customers’ internal business.

As a team manager, you will join a team of managers who overlook the Unit 42 MDR team to ensure premium delivery to our customers and also have a critical role in how the team works, but also be able to create new processes, methodologies and capabilities that the team requires.

Your Impact

• Hire for and lead a team of MDR Analysts working globally, guide the team, create and improve processes, methodologies and capabilities that the team requires to work effectively
• Lead a team that analyzes incidents from real customer environments to identify ongoing threats to customer environments.
• Provide critical feedback to the different product, research and engineering and threat hunting teams to help improve the products for the entire Palo Alto Networks’ customer base
• Work closely with Security Research, Threat Intelligence and Threat Hunting teams to remediate and detect new emerging threats
  
  

Qualifications

Your Experience

• At least 3 years of team management experience, global management experience (world-wide team) is a plus
• Great interpersonal skills and a proven experience collaborating with customers
• Understanding of the threat landscape in terms of the tools, tactics, and techniques of attacks, as well as networking and security fundamentals
• Basic hands-on coding skills (e.g. Python)
• Excellent written and oral communication skills in English
• Experience investigating targeted, sophisticated or hidden threats:
• Background in forensic analysis and incident and response tools to identify a threat and determine the extent and scope of a compromise.
• Experience with investigative technologies such as SIEM, packet capture analysis, host forensics, and Endpoint Detection and Response tools
• Understanding of how APTs operate and the attack cycle – different attack vectors, propagation and data exfiltration, lateral movement, persistence mechanism, etc.
• Understanding of how organizations protect themselves from cyber-attacks, what tools are used and what remediation techniques are leveraged.
• Advantages:
• Having worked in SOC analysis or an investigation environment
• Having worked in Incident Response environment
  

Additional Information

The Team

The team you’ll lead helps protect customers by identifying the most sophisticated & stealthy attacks in their environment. The team does so by leveraging the Cortex product suite as well as unique tools, methodologies and techniques.

Cortex provides enterprise-scale detection and response that runs on integrated endpoint, network and cloud data — reduce the noise and focus on real threats. This team works closely with the different product teams and helps improve each and every product by providing first-hand insights into how the product is used and how it can perform even better.

Our Commitment

We’re trailblazers that dream big, take risks, and challenge cybersecurity’s status quo. It’s simple: we can’t accomplish our mission without diverse teams innovating, together.

Palo Alto Networks is evolving and changing the nature of work to meet the needs of our employees now and in the future through FLEXWORK, our approach to how we work. From benefits to learning, location to leadership, we’ve rethought and recreated every aspect of the employee experience at Palo Alto Networks. And because it FLEXes around each individual employee based on their individual choices, employees are empowered to push boundaries and help us all evolve, together.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for all qualified individuals with a disability. If you require assistance or accommodation due to a disability or special need, please contact us at [email protected].

Is role eligible for Immigration Sponsorship?: No. Please note that we will not sponsor applicants for work visas for this position.