Principal Consultant, Incident Preparedness, Proactive Services (Unit 42)

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21 Sep 2025
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About Palo Alto Networks

The cybersecurity company.

Actively Hiring
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Company Description

Our Mission

At Palo Alto Networksยฎ everything starts and ends with our mission:

Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.
Our vision is a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. We are a company built on the foundation of challenging and disrupting the way things are done, and weโ€™re looking for innovators who are as committed to shaping the future of cybersecurity as we are.

Who We Are

We take our mission of protecting the digital way of life seriously. We are relentless in protecting our customers and we believe that the unique ideas of every member of our team contributes to our collective success. Our values were crowdsourced by employees and are brought to life through each of us everyday – from disruptive innovation and collaboration, to execution. From showing up for each other with integrity to creating an environment where we all feel included.

As a member of our team, you will be shaping the future of cybersecurity. We work fast, value ongoing learning, and we respect each employee as a unique individual. Knowing we all have different needs, our development and personal wellbeing programs are designed to give you choice in how you are supported. This includes our FLEXBenefits wellbeing spending account with over 1,000 eligible items selected by employees, our mental and financial health resources, and our personalized learning opportunities – just to name a few!

Job Description

Your Career

This role is client-facing and requires the Principal Consultant to lead and produce deliverables based on proactive services engagements. The Principal Consultant will work directly with multiple customers and key stakeholders (security teams, system and network administrators and owners, C-Suite, etc.) to manage and deliver proactive incident preparedness engagements, as well as wider proactive assessments and services.ย 

Your Impact

  • Lead proactive incident preparedness projects, including but not limited to TableTop Exercises (TTX), Incident Response Plans and Response Maturity Assessments

  • Review Crisis Management, Incident Response, Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Plans, and other relevant documents that support holistic business resilience

  • Plan and deliver a range of TTXs, including writing post exercise reports that provide detailed analysis and recommendations on areas for improvementย 

  • Manage and contributeย incident preparedness and other cyber security engagements from initial scoping through to delivery.

  • Ability to perform travel requirements as needed to meet business demands (on average 20%)

This is a remote role inviting applicants based in Germany, France, Spain, Italy and UAE. Local in country language required.ย 

Qualifications

Qualifications

Your Experience

  • 8+ years of incident preparedness and/or incident response related consulting experience with a passion for cyber security

  • Experience with leading and delivering complicated engagements including scoping, interfacing with the client, and have executed incident preparedness or IR related projects

  • Incident response consulting experience required. Incident preparedness experience is a must as it will be a core focus of the position

  • Bachelorโ€™s Degree in Information Security, Computer Science, Cyber Security or related field or equivalent experience required

Additional Information

The Team

Unit 42 Consulting is Palo Alto Network’s security advisory team. Our vision is to create a more secure digital world by providing the highest quality incident response, risk management, and digital forensic services to clients of all sizes. Our team is composed of recognized experts and incident responders with deep technical expertise and experience in investigations, data breach response, digital forensics, and information security. With a highly successful track record of delivering mission-critical cybersecurity solutions, we are experienced in working quickly to provide an effective incident response, attack readiness, and remediation plans with a focus on providing long-term support to improve our clientsโ€™ security posture.ย 

Our Commitment
Weโ€™re problem solvers that take risks and challenge cybersecurityโ€™s status quo. Itโ€™s simple: we canโ€™t accomplish our mission without diverse teams innovating, 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].

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.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

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What position is Palo Alto Networks hiring for?

Palo Alto Networks is hiring a remote Principal Consultant, Incident Preparedness, Proactive Services (Unit 42) from ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡น Italy

What type of employment does Palo Alto Networks offer?

This is a Full Time role.

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