Staff MDR Analyst
Core
Own the incident lifecycle from outbreak to remediation for global customers, providing critical feedback to product and engineering teams to improve security products.
Role type
Staff MDR Analyst (Incident Response & Detection Engineering)
Builds
Production security detection playbooks, incident response workflows, and enhanced threat detection capabilities for Palo Alto Networks' customer base.
Domain
Cybersecurity, Threat Intelligence, Security Operations (MDR/SOC)
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | client delivery
Required skills
Incident investigation, SOC analysis, detection engineering, DFIR, MDR, threat hunting, EDR, SIEM, SOAR, technical reporting, malware analysis, attack trend analysis
Preferred skills
Malware analysis, military experience, CEH certification, CompTIA CYSA+ certification, Cortex XSOAR, Cortex XDR
Technologies
EDR, SIEM, SOAR, Cortex XSOAR, Cortex XDR
Responsibilities
Own incident lifecycle from outbreak to full remediation; Provide critical feedback to product, research, and engineering teams; Work with Security Research and Threat Intelligence teams to detect emerging threats; Mentor analysts during major incidents on triage and root-cause analysis; Investigate suspicious activity across endpoints, networks, identity, and cloud.
Seniority
Staff, hands-on IC with mentorship responsibilities