Tech Lead - XSIAM

About the role

In order to be the cybersecurity partner of choice, we must trailblaze the path and shape the future of our industry. This is something our employees work at each day and is defined by our values: Disruption, Collaboration, Execution, Integrity, and Inclusion. We weave AI into the fabric of everything we do and use it to augment the impact every individual can have. If you are passionate about solving real-world problems and ideating beside the best and the brightest, we invite you to join us! We believe collaboration thrives in person. That's why most of our teams work from the office full time, with flexibility when it's needed. This model supports real-time problem-solving, stronger relationships, and the kind of precision that drives great outcomes. Job Summary Your Career As a Lead Consultant for Cortex XSIAM, you will be at the forefront of guiding our customers through complex SIEM transformations and security operations enhancements. Your role goes beyond technical implementation - you will serve as a strategic advisor, helping enterprise customers design, plan, and execute an XSIAM deployment that aligns with their broader security objectives. You will lead customer engagements from discovery through to operational handover, ensuring each phase is grounded in best practices for SIEM migration, log ingestion, detection engineering, and SOC automation. Acting as both a thought leader and a hands-on practitioner, you will bridge the gap between business outcomes and technical execution, influencing stakeholders and mentoring technical teams to deliver a world-class security operations capability.

Responsibilities

• Lead XSIAM deployments and migrations, ensuring seamless onboarding of log sources and alignment with customer-specific requirements and security objectives.
• Develop and oversee comprehensive detection strategies, leveraging threat intelligence and industry best practices to strengthen customers' defenses.
• Act as a trusted advisor to executive and SOC leadership, translating security goals into actionable implementation roadmaps.
• Drive operational efficiency through automation, reducing mean time to respond (MTTR) and enabling SOC analysts to focus on higher-value investigations.
• Facilitate collaboration across internal teams, customer stakeholders, and partners to ensure alignment and adoption of the XSIAM platform.
• Provide expert guidance in SIEM architecture, correlation rule design, and performance optimization to maximize value from the platform.
• Mentor customer technical teams, transferring knowledge and building long-term operational capability within the organization.
• Deliver clear and concise technical documentation, strategic recommendations, and progress reports that support decision-making and program success.
• Represent Professional Services as a subject matter expert in XSIAM, SIEM migrations, and SOC modernization initiatives.

Requirements

• Your Experience
• Exceptional written and verbal communication and presentation skills, for both internal and external interactions.
• 10+ years of experience with Security Operations Centers (SOC) tooling and processes.
• 6+ years of hands-on experience in deploying and integrating SIEM solutions and migrating SIEM solutions from different vendors within enterprise to large enterprise-level environments.
• Proficiency in coordinating and conducting event collection, log management, event management, compliance automation, and identity monitoring using SIEM platforms.
• Ability to conceive and develop detection use cases in SIEM systems to enable effective alerting.
• Proficiency in implementing and integrating automation solutions to enhance SOC efficiency, thereby minimizing MTTR and optimizing operational effectiveness.
• Demonstrated expertise in threat intelligence management, including the ability to analyze and leverage threat intelligence feeds to proactively identify, assess, and mitigate potential security threats within the organization's environment.
• Familiarity with a range of Endpoint security solutions such as anti malware, EDR, XDR.
• Knowledge of generating reports on SIEM status, including metrics like logging source count, log collection rate, and other performance indicators.
• Proven experience in providing consultative services to end customers within the realm of cybersecurity, particularly in SIEM and SOC domains.
• Demonstrated ability to comprehend customer requirements, analyze complex security environments, and deliver strategic recommendations or best practices that align with their goals or

Additional Information

Our Mission At Palo Alto Networks®, we're united by a shared mission-to protect our digital way of life. We thrive at the intersection of innovation and impact, solving real-world problems with cutting-edge technology and bold thinking. Here, everyone has a voice, and every idea counts. If you're ready to do the most meaningful work of your career alongside people who are just as passionate as you are, you're in the right place.

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