Principal Consultant, Proactive Services SOC Unit

Position: Principal Consultant, Proactive Services SOC Unit 42
# Principal Consultant, Proactive Services SOC Unit 42

Palo Alto Networks Dubai, AEPosted 5/8/2026### AI Match Score Based on your profile & preferences 0%
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Job Description Your Career As a Principal Consultant in Unit 42 you will have the opportunity to work across a number of proactive cyber security domains including Cloud Security, Security Operations, Cyber Risk Management and Artificial Intelligence in cyber security.

We are seeking an individual who is passionate about cyber security, curious with a demonstrated track record of continuous learning and has the technical acumen to embrace data, technological and innovative approaches to deliver the best consulting outcomes for clients as they work to address the challenges associated with today's cyber threat landscape.

Your Impact
• Principal SOC Advisory: 6 years of consulting experience in SOC security engineering, SIEM administration and incident management, and demonstrated success with serving large multinational organisations in designing and implementing an organization's security operations program, organisational structures and capabilities.
• Possess a deep technical knowledge in Security Incident and Event Management (SIEM) platforms, Security Orchestration and Response (SOAR) technologies, Endpoint Protection and Response/Next‐Gen Protection and Response (EDR/XDR) tools, Next‐Gen Firewalls, Threat Intelligence and Hunting platforms.
• Defensive Security Skills (desired):
Experience in security operations design, engineering and/or analysis and investigations ideally in complex environments with security event correlations across a variety of sources (e. g. cloud, network, endpoint logs).
• Ability to perform detailed assessments, identify areas for improvement and make recommendations to transform an organization's cyber security operations and capabilities to better protect, detect and rapidly respond to modern threats.
• Demonstrated experience in improving an organization's security operations capabilities such as improvements in asset visibility, threat detection capabilities, automation techniques, case management, enablement of compliance and regulatory requirements.
• Experience in conducting threat hunting and/or compromise assessments to identify active or dormant indicators of compromise (IoCs) or evidence of unknown threats within an organization's digital environment.
• Relevant industry certifications including GIAC Defensible Security Architect (GDSA), GIAC Intrusion Analyst (GCIA), GIAC Continuous Monitoring (GMON), CISSP.
• Understanding of cyber risk frameworks or industry standards such as 800‐53, ISO 27001/2, PCI, CIS 18, CMMC.
• Principal Cloud Security: 6 years of experience performing cloud security advisement and risk assessments based upon industry‐accepted standards.
• Hands‐on experience with a cloud hosting provider (AWS, Azure, GCP, etc. ).
• Experience with a Cloud Application Security Broker (CASB) - MCAS, Netskope.
• Possess a deep technical knowledge in CASBs, Cloud Platforms and the dependencies around such an environment (WAF, SSO, Cloud Threats, API Security, Cloud Security Posture Management).
• Former experience with cloud migrations (cloud to cloud or on‐prem to cloud).
• Knowledge of command‐line interfaces or scripting tools in cloud environments is a plus.
• Cloud Security skills (desired):
Secure software development practices, including Sec Dev Ops .
• Sound knowledge of applicable frameworks & standards including OWASP, MITRE & D3

FEND, CIS, NIST CSF, CSA CCM & ISO 27107.
• Relevant industry certifications including CSCP.
• Principal Cyber

Risk Management:

Experience in performing cyber security threat & risk assessments to support the development of cyber security strategies and roadmaps.
• Technical proficiency in a wide range of cyber risk management services including cyber threat risk and control…