Security Consultant - Engineering

Stratascale LLC is a digital and cybersecurity services company that helps Fortune 1000 companies improve their technology use and security practices. The Security Consultant - Engineering role involves providing expertise on Security Incident and Event Management platforms, developing governance models, collaborating with teams, and ensuring successful solution delivery to clients.

Responsibilities:

• Provide subject matter expertise on Security Incident and Event Management (SIEM) platforms to ensure successful delivery of services to include technologies such as, but not limited to, Palo Alto XSIAM
• Proactively identify customer needs and requirements through data, customer engagement and other methods to recommend appropriate solutions and drive these solutions through implementation and adoption
• Engage with internal team members and client stakeholders to ensure successful solution delivery
• Stay educated on new product technology, tangential team capabilities, and other specific offerings or programs emerging within our company and within the practice industry
• Identify areas for continued advancement of strategies aligned with Industry direction, client need, practice scope and present solutions to leadership
• Execute services by ensuring client needs and practice obligations are met successfully
• Participate in the development of cross practice training or delegate trainings to team members on practice discipline capability, associated offerings, industry positioning and selling strategies
• Collaborate with peers to develop and optimize cross practice capabilities as appropriate
• Serve as a subject matter expert in maintaining, optimizing, and delivering security engineering solutions
• Communication: Can effectively communicate complex ideas and information to diverse audiences, facilitate effective communication between others, and mentor others in effective communication
• Relationship Building: Can take ownership of complex team initiatives, collaborate with diverse groups, and drive results through effective relationship management
• Self-Motivation: Can take ownership of complex personal or professional initiatives, collaborate with others when necessary, and drive results through self-motivation
• Negotiation: Can take ownership of complex negotiations, collaborate with others, and drive consensus
• Impact and Influence: Can rally a team or group towards a common goal, creating a positive and persuasive influence
• Business Development: Can take ownership of significant business initiatives, collaborate with various stakeholders, and drive business results
• Emotional Intelligence: Can use emotional information to guide thinking and behavior, manage and/or adjust emotions to adapt to environments or achieve one’s goal(s), and help others do the same
• Detail-Oriented: Can oversee multiple projects, maintaining a high level of detail orientation, identifying errors or inconsistencies in work, and ensuring accuracy across all tasks
• Follow-Up: Can take ownership of tasks, collaborate with others in managing follow-ups, and drive results through effective task completion
• Presenting: Can effectively use visual aids, storytelling, and persuasive techniques to enhance presentations and engage audiences
• Delegation: Can delegate responsibilities across a team, balancing workload, and ensuring all members understand their roles
• Analytical Thinking: Can use advanced analytical techniques to solve complex problems, draw insights, and communicate the solutions effectively
• Critical Thinking: Can integrate and synthesize information from various sources to inform strategic decision-making and problem-solving
• Technical Troubleshooting: Can take ownership of complex technical problems, collaborate with others to manage solutions, and drive results in problem resolution
• Deep knowledge of Palo Alto Networks XSIAM: Hands-on experience with XSIAM (Extended Security Intelligence & Automation Management), including deployment, configuration, and ongoing management
• Log Management: Experience with log ingestion, parsing, normalization, and correlation
• Threat Intelligence: Ability to integrate and operationalize threat intelligence feeds within XSIAM
• Outstanding written and verbal communication and strong ability to build relationships with customers, partners and staff members
• Ability to resolve and close complex technical and selling situations while support competitive selling motions
• Ability to train and disseminate information within an area or operation and work effectively within all levels of an organization, both internally and externally
• Ability to influence and lead all aspects of sales cycle and engage appropriate internal and external subject matter experts as needed
• Ability to engage and discuss technical and non-technical concepts and explain complex problems with a wide array of customer audience types including C-Suite, VP/Director
• Willingness, drive and winning mindset to compete in customer opportunities
• Entrepreneurial mindset with ability to identify value in unstructured situations
• Problem solving skills with the ability to serve as an escalation point and knowledgeable resource and direct resolution while accessing circumstances and current information to make informed and best decision
• Security Frameworks: Familiarity with MITRE ATT&CK, NIST, and other security frameworks

Requirements:

• Completed Bachelor's Degree or relevant work experience required
• 5+ years of experience working with large organizations on security engineering projects
• Deep knowledge of Palo Alto Networks XSIAM: Hands-on experience with XSIAM (Extended Security Intelligence & Automation Management), including deployment, configuration, and ongoing management
• Log Management: Experience with log ingestion, parsing, normalization, and correlation
• Threat Intelligence: Ability to integrate and operationalize threat intelligence feeds within XSIAM
• Outstanding written and verbal communication and strong ability to build relationships with customers, partners and staff members
• Ability to resolve and close complex technical and selling situations while support competitive selling motions
• Ability to train and disseminate information within an area or operation and work effectively within all levels of an organization, both internally and externally
• Ability to influence and lead all aspects of sales cycle and engage appropriate internal and external subject matter experts as needed
• Ability to engage and discuss technical and non-technical concepts and explain complex problems with a wide array of customer audience types including C-Suite, VP/Director
• Willingness, drive and winning mindset to compete in customer opportunities
• Entrepreneurial mindset with ability to identify value in unstructured situations
• Problem solving skills with the ability to serve as an escalation point and knowledgeable resource and direct resolution while accessing circumstances and current information to make informed and best decision
• Security Frameworks: Familiarity with MITRE ATT&CK, NIST, and other security frameworks
• Familiarity with SOC workflows, incident response, threat detection, and security automation
• Experience with SIEM (Security Information and Event Management) and SOAR (Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response) platforms, especially Palo Alto Cortex XSOAR and XSIAM
• Understanding of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and their integration with XSIAM
• Ability to travel to SHI, Partner, and Customer Events
• Advanced industry certifications preferred