Senior SOC Manager (InfoSec)

Company Description

Our Mission

At Palo Alto Networks® everything starts and ends with our mission: protecting our way of life in the digital age by preventing successful cyberattacks. It’s not a small goal. It isn’t simple either, but we aren’t in this for the easy answer. As a company with a foundation in challenging the way things are done, we’re looking for innovators with a dedication to best. In return, your career will have a tangible impact – one that's working toward technology that affects every level of society.

Our mission doesn’t happen by treading softly – no, it happens by defining an industry. It means building products that haven't been thought of. It means selling products with a solutions mindset. It means supporting the infrastructure of a company that moves at an incredible speed – intentionally – to stay ahead of the world’s next cyberthreat.

Job Description

Your Career

Palo Alto Networks Information Security team is looking for a Security Operations Center (SOC) Senior Manager to join the Global Security Operations team. As the senior manager of the team, you will lead the Tel Aviv-based group of SOC analysts and engineers in support of the SOC’s mission to protect the company from cyberattacks. You will be responsible for threat detection and incident response across our internal environments. The scope of the Security Operations team spans both the Enterprise and Product environments.

In this role, as a hands-on technical leader you will quickly become an expert in Palo Alto Networks security products; primarily XSIAM, XDR, and Next Generation Firewalls. You will also facilitate the SOC team’s feedback to the engineering teams to continually improve our world leading security products.

Many SOCs are drowning in false positive alerts, but Palo Alto Networks SOC changed the game and re-invented how Security Operations should function. Our vigilant focus on automation, prevention and high-fidelity alerts enables our analysts to be more proactive. Our analysts do not spend their days sifting through alerts. Instead, their workloads are split evenly between (1) analyzing and responding to high fidelity alerts (2) proactive threat hunting and (3) contributing to a variety of different projects aligned to their personal interests. As the Security Operations Center (SOC) Manager, you will ensure we are practicing this philosophy.

As a people manager at Palo Alto Networks, top candidates for this role will demonstrate an ability to effectively mentor individuals on a high performing team, build morale and maintain an educational environment where the knowledge and performance of the group is constantly advancing.

Responsibilities:

Ownership of the SOC team’s threat detection and incident response activities

Oversight of day-to-day operations for the SOC team to ensure they adhere to the philosophy described above

Continuously mature SOC processes, and drive new innovations.

Coordinate the SOC team’s efforts so they align with those of the US-based SOC

Keep current with the latest security industry developments for potential inputs into threat detection services

Oversee documentation efforts that detail security incidents for security leaders and the business

Demonstrate excellent communication skills in post mortem reviews of incident response activities, to facilitate continuous improvement

Manage SOC team staffing, including recruitment, supervision, scheduling, development and evaluations

Develop and maintain an educational environment where the knowledge and performance of the group is constantly advancing

Contribute to proof-of-concept assessments of new security products

Qualifications

Your Experience

Minimum 4 years security leadership, with experience building long-term career development plans for team members at all levels

Demonstrated understanding of the principles of network and endpoint security, current threat and attack trends, and have a working knowledge of security principles such as defense in depth

Strong technical leader capable of planning and executing to meet core objectives

Thought leader in security operations with experience working in a automation, analytics, and advanced threat analysis

Demonstrated experience managing major/complex security incidents

Demonstrated experience leading security Incident Response efforts in complex organizations based on the following three core areas:

Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) or Endpoint Forensics

Network Log Analysis

Public Cloud Defense (AWS, GCP etc)

Threat hunting experience

Make decisions and perform complex problem-solving activities under pressure.

Familiarity with a SIEM

Strong communication skills, both spoken and written

Strong familiarity with technologies commonly seen in Enterprises. (i.e. AD, Cloud, VMs etc)

Previous management and project leadership experience required

Additional Information

The Team

Our technical support team is essential to our success and mission. As part of this team, you enable customer success by providing support to clients after they have purchased our products. Our dedication to our customers doesn’t stop once they sign – it just evolves. Our technical team provides the behind-the-scenes support to meet our customer’s needs. As threats and technology evolve, we stay in step to accomplish our mission. You’ll be involved in implementing new products, transitioning from old products to new, and will fix integrations and critical issues as they are raised – in fact, you’ll seek them out to ensure our clients are safely supported. We fix and identify technical problems, with a pointed focus of providing the best customer support in the industry.

We’re a fast-growing, immensely successful organization because of our people and products (built and supported by our people). We work the frontlines against cyberthreats and attacks, protecting every day transactions in the digital environment. It means we’re good at scaling quickly to new threats, get fulfillment from resolving new problems, and think about things just plain differently.

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. To learn more about our dedication to inclusion and innovation, visit our Life at Palo Alto Networks page and our diversity website.

Palo Alto Networks is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity in our workplace, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or other legally protected characteristics.

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

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