Staff MDR Analyst

Job Summary

Your Impact

• Join a new emerging team who is going to be part of Palo Alto's Unit 42, working closely with global customers providing the best security in the market.
• Own an incident lifecycle from outbreak to full remediation.
• Provide critical feedback to the different product, research and engineering and threat hunting teams to help improve the products for the entire Palo Alto Networks customer base.
• Work closely with Security Research, Threat Intelligence and Threat Hunting teams to remediate and detect new emerging threats.
• This position requires flexibility to work primarily during morning and afternoon hours; however, occasional night shifts may be required depending on business demands.

Qualifications

Your Experience

• 5+ years of experience in incident investigation, SOC analysis, detection engineering, DFIR, MDR, or a similar security operations role is a must
• Ability to work independently, make sound investigative decisions on complex security incidents
• Self-driven innovator who can operate independently, harness emerging AI tools, and continuously refine playbooks to eradicate noise and elevate operational quality.
• Mentors analysts during major incidents by providing expert technical direction on triage, containment, and root-cause analysis.
• Experience investigating suspicious activity, security incidents, or targeted threats across endpoints, networks, identity, and cloud.
• Experienced with Technologies such as EDR, SIEM, SOAR
• Experience writing technical reports, investigation summaries and recommendations
• Self-starter who can work independently and adapt to AI
• A well established familiarity with attack trends and vectors
• Excellent written and oral communication skills in English
• Some degree of Malware Analysis or equivalent military experience - An advantage
• CEH / CompTIA CYSA+ certifications - An advantage
• Hands-on experience with Cortex XSOAR or Cortex XDR - An advantage

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