Full-Time Senior Consulting Director, Cloud Security
Palo Alto Networks is hiring a remote Full-Time Senior Consulting Director, Cloud Security. The career level for this job opening is Senior Manager and is accepting Chicago, IL based applicants remotely. Read complete job description before applying.
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Your CareerAs a Senior Consulting Director within Unit 42’s Cyber Risk Management (CRM) team, you will lead the Cloud Security Assessments offering and own delivery success in North America.
This includes:
- Overseeing a high-performing team of consultants
- Maintaining delivery quality
- Driving revenue and utilization
- Supporting business development and thought leadership
- Advancing service innovation
Working with the Managing Director and CRM NAM Practice leader, along with peers, you will provide executive oversight and strategic direction for evaluating, maturing, and optimizing cloud security posture and resilience through tailored assessments.
Your Impact
- Provide strategic leadership and vision for Unit 42’s Cloud Security Assessment services, ensuring alignment with customer needs and Unit 42’s transformation strategy.
- Own and drive success across all Cloud Assessment KPIs including revenue, utilization, delivery quality, customer satisfaction, and Security Transformation Program (STP) contribution.
- Lead the ongoing maturation of cloud security methodologies, deliverables, and automation approaches.
- Serve as the executive sponsor, strategic advisor, and delivery lead for complex client engagements, guiding secure cloud architecture and remediation strategies.
- Advise executive stakeholders on cloud security posture, identity management, configuration gaps, and detection capabilities across major cloud providers.
- Embed Palo Alto Networks technologies into service delivery to maximize client value and risk reduction.
- Lead delivery staffing, resource forecasting, and team performance tracking.
- Lead and mentor a high-performing team of Directors and consultants.
- Collaborate with GTM teams to shape cloud security messaging and support business development.
- Lead or support the development of complex proposals, statements of work, and client roadmaps.
- Build and maintain long-term trusted advisor relationships with clients.
- Represent Unit 42 at industry events.
- Author and contribute to whitepapers, blogs, and internal training content.
- Influence Unit 42’s cloud services roadmap by identifying gaps, client feedback, and market needs in collaboration with product and innovation teams.
- Track evolving threats, compliance mandates, and architectural trends to inform service offerings.
Your Experience
- 10+ years in cybersecurity, with 5+ focused on cloud security services, architecture, or assessments.
- 7+ years managing consulting delivery teams or leading security services at the Director level or higher.
- Deep technical experience with cloud-native security architectures, cloud misconfiguration risks, and identity and access controls across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
- Proven expertise with CNAPP, CSPM, IAM, logging, and zero trust architecture.
- Strong understanding of cloud-specific threats, frameworks, and compliance models.
- Experience with tools and scripting for validation, configuration management, and assessment automation.
- Demonstrated success in building, scaling, and optimizing cloud security consulting services.
- Strong executive presence and ability to influence CISOs, CTOs, and Boards.
- Experience supporting pre-sales and GTM efforts.
- Knowledge of Palo Alto Networks’ Prisma Cloud.
- Bachelor’s Degree required; Master’s Degree or relevant certifications preferred.