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Palo Alto NetworksPosted 1 month ago

Senior MSIAM SOC Engineer (Unit 42)

$126,000–$204,500 year

On-siteCharlotte, North Carolina, United States

Full TimeSenior LevelEnterprise

Job Summary

Drive the continuous refinement of correlation rules to ensure all deployed detection logic meets strict standards for performance, accuracy, and operational relevance. Translate Unit 42 threat intelligence research and emerging adversary TTPs into actionable, robust detection logic while championing proactive automation through sophisticated playbooks that resolve security challenges ahead of demand. Architect the end-to-end security lifecycle within Cortex XSIAM, seamlessly connecting data ingestion, high-fidelity detection engineering, and sophisticated response automation.

Required Qualifications

  • 5+ years of hands-on experience in a Senior SOC, Detection Engineering, or Security Architecture role
  • utilizing SIEMs, firewalls, EDR, sandboxes, and SOAR platforms
  • Proven mastery of the Detection Engineering lifecycle
  • experience with rule testing frameworks
  • soft-deployment strategies
  • continuous tuning
  • Demonstrated experience reviewing and QA-ing detection logic written by others
  • ability to provide constructive optimization feedback
  • Proactive engineering mindset
  • track record of designing complex automation playbooks
  • based on anticipated threat vectors
  • Strong background in incident response
  • threat hunting
  • translating threat intelligence into actionable defense mechanisms
  • Software development experience
  • strong proficiency in Python for security automation
  • Exceptional consultative and communication skills
  • confidence to guide enterprise customers through complex architectural and workflow decisions
  • This role is remote
  • Must be able to travel

Desired Qualifications

  • Previous experience with Cortex XSIAM

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