Summary

Position Summary

Join Deloitte Cyber and help organizations navigate the evolving cybersecurity landscape with greater confidence and resilience. As part of our Cyber practice, you will support clients in transforming security operations through advanced detection, automation, and response capabilities. This role focuses on delivering and optimizing Palo Alto Networks XSIAM solutions to help clients strengthen visibility, improve response readiness, and manage cyber threats at scale.

Work you'll do

As a Senior Consultant on the Cyber team, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and optimizing XSIAM solutions that enhance security operations and incident response capabilities.

Lead the implementation and optimization of Palo Alto Networks XSIAM, including detection rules, use cases, and automation workflows.
Integrate log and telemetry sources into the platform, including validation of parsing, normalization, and data quality.
Develop and enhance automated response workflows to support incident containment, investigation, and remediation.
Advise client stakeholders on security operations use cases, threat detection strategies, and platform capabilities.
Document technical solutions, runbooks, and configuration decisions, and support knowledge transfer through training and mentoring.

The team

Cyber Defense & Resilience teams assist clients in defending against advanced threats by transforming security operations, and by monitoring technology, data analytics, and threat intelligence. They help manage and protect dynamic attack surfaces and provide rapid crisis and cyber incident response, thereby ensuring that clients can be ready for, respond to, and recover from business disruptions. Examples of work include Operational Resilience, Crisis & Incident Response, and Security Operations Center Transformation.

Location: Bangalore, Hyderabad, Pune, Chennai

Shift Timings: General

Qualifications

Required:

6-10 years of experience in security operations, security information and event management (SIEM), security orchestration, automation, and response (SOAR), or incident response
Experience with Palo Alto Networks XSIAM and Cortex XDR or Cortex XSOAR
Experience designing detection rules, integrations, and automated response workflows
Experience integrating log and telemetry sources and validating data normalization and platform ingestion
Experience creating technical documentation, runbooks, and client-facing knowledge transfer materials
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Cybersecurity, Engineering, or equivalent experience

Preferred:

Palo Alto Networks Certified Cybersecurity Associate, CompTIA Security+, or GIAC Certified Incident Handler certification
Experience mentoring junior analysts or consultants
Experience presenting technical findings and recommendations to client stakeholders

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Requisition code: 362790

Palo Alto XSIAM - Senior Consultant