Senior Manager, Offensive Security

Our Mission

At Palo Alto Networks® everything starts and ends with our mission:

Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.

Our vision is a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. We are a company built on the foundation of challenging and disrupting the way things are done, and we’re looking for innovators who are as committed to shaping the future of cybersecurity as we are.

Our Approach to Work

We lead with flexibility and choice in all of our people programs. We have disrupted the traditional view that all employees have the same needs and wants. We offer personalization and offer our employees the opportunity to choose what works best for them as often as possible - from your wellbeing support to your growth and development, and beyond

At Palo Alto Networks, we believe in the power of collaboration and value in-person interactions. This is why our employees generally work from the office three days per week, leaving two days for choice and flexibility to work where you feel most effective. This setup fosters casual conversations, problem-solving, and trusted relationships. While details may evolve, our goal is to create an environment where innovation thrives, with office-based teams coming together three days a week to collaborate and thrive, together

Your Career 

Palo Alto Networks Information Security team is looking for a Senior Manager to lead the Offensive Security teams. Offensive Security’s mission is to leverage adversarial knowledge and skills to improve security posture. A set of specialized teams pursue this mission across two scopes; the Palo Alto Networks enterprise and the Palo Alto Networks product ecosystem. Adversarial operations against the enterprise are conducted by members of the Red Team. On the other hand, the penetration testing team members focus on assessments against all products and services within the Palo Alto Networks portfolio.

As a Senior Manager, you’ll look for strategic opportunities to evolve the offensive security services as well as the teams. Interpersonal communication will be key to your success in aligning the teams’ work with the constituent/stakeholder needs. Securing our products and business against known and anticipated threats is a mission critical outcome for the company. Your intention must be to effectively persuade, convince or influence all relevant stakeholders to achieve this desired outcome. On the other hand, to technically accomplish the set strategy, you’ll need to empower and maintain a high morale across your teams. Preserving the inclusive culture must be the crux of your organizational development strategy. 

Your Impact 

The successful candidate will thrive in a fast-paced environment where energy, drive, and a collaborative approach are crucial to success. In addition, you’ll be responsible for the following:

• Red Team
  • Oversight of day-to-day operations for the Red Team
  • Continuously mature red team processes, and drive new innovations
  • Guide the team through the design and execution of red team scenarios to highlight gaps impacting enterprise security posture and readiness
  • Actively participate and at times lead security investigations, root-cause analysis, and corrective measures as required
  • Resource and budget management
• Product Penetration Testing
  • Envision and execute the strategy for ongoing product security assurance through penetration testing
  • Engage with the product engineering and management teams to track and plan for the penetration testing needs across the product portfolio
  • Supervise the scoping, scheduling, and execution of third-party penetration testing assessments and manage the 3rd party partners
  • Ensure timely remediation of issues discovered during assessments
  • Resource and budget management  

Your Experience 

• Minimum 2 years security leadership, with experience building long-term career development plans for team members at all levels
• Expert level experience in red team, network penetration testing or product security roles
• Demonstrated understanding of the principles of network and endpoint security, current threat and attack trends, and have a working knowledge of security principles such as defense in depth
• Strong technical leader capable of planning and executing to meet core objectives
• Demonstrated experience in planning and execution complex red team operations
• Strong communication skills, both spoken and written
• Strong familiarity with technologies commonly seen in Enterprises. (i.e. AD, Cloud, VMs etc)
• Previous management and project leadership experience required
• Ability to establish priorities, work independently and proceed with objectives
• Must be well organized and able to leverage best practices, able to thrive in fast-paced environment, and, most importantly, have the ability to approach problems with an innovative, can-do attitude
• Public speaking and demonstrated thought leadership in the security space
• Bachelor's degree from four-year college or university or equivalent training, education, and experience in information / cyber security, computer systems, IT, etc. or equivalent military experience required

The Team

Serious mission, fun culture; We’re not your ordinary Information Security team.  We’re a diverse group of security professionals that embraces challenging the status quo in order to protect Palo Alto Networks and our customers.  They say it’s the people you work with that make you want to go to work and it’s true here; we love our work. 

Think about it:  Driving innovation on the Information Security team of the fastest-growing high-tech cybersecurity company is a once in a lifetime opportunity. You’ll be joined by the brightest minds in technology, and our global teams are on the front line of defense against cyberattacks. 

We’re joined by one mission – but driven by the impact of that mission and what it means to protect our way of life in the digital age. Join a dynamic and fast-paced team that feels excitement at the prospect of a challenge and feels a thrill every time we beat the bad guys.

We hope to meet you soon

Our Commitment

We’re trailblazers that dream big, take risks, and challenge cybersecurity’s status quo. It’s simple: we can’t accomplish our mission without diverse teams innovating, together.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for all qualified individuals with a disability. If you require assistance or accommodation due to a disability or special need, please contact us at accommodations@paloaltonetworks.com.

Palo Alto Networks is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity in our workplace, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or other legally protected characteristics.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

The compensation offered for this position will depend on qualifications, experience, and work location. For candidates who receive an offer at the posted level, the starting base salary (for non-sales roles) or base salary + commission target (for sales/com-missioned roles) is expected to be between $175,600/yr to $284,000/yr. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found here. 

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