Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Palo Alto Networks is a cybersecurity company focused on protecting digital systems and advancing security technology. The Manager of Managed XSIAM SOC Engineering will lead and mentor SOC and Detection Engineers while contributing hands-on technical expertise to engineering execution, detection strategy, automation playbooks, and operational quality. The role partners with Cortex Engineering and Unit 42 teams to improve threat detection, automation, and XSIAM capabilities.
Responsibilities
- Lead & Empower: Build, mentor, and manage a high-performing team of SOC and Detection Engineers, driving career development, team retention, and operational excellence
- Hands-On Technical Leadership: Remain actively involved in the engineering cycle—evaluating technical architectures, writing code (Python), designing complex automation playbooks, and ensuring overall technical quality
- Content Innovation & Roadmap Expansion: Spearhead research into emerging threat landscapes, platform capabilities, and security frameworks to identify, scope, and prioritize new content packs, integrations, and automation initiatives for the team to develop
- Engineering & Delivery Execution: Own end-to-end detection and playbook development workflows, maintaining accountability for team KPIs including SLA adherence, detection quality, deployment speed, and customer satisfaction
- Cross-Functional Alignment: Partner closely with internal Unit 42 research teams and Cortex Engineering to translate emerging threat research into production-ready XSIAM capabilities and platform improvements
- Quality Assurance & Standards: Enforce rigorous development standards across the team for staging, testing, soft implementation, and continuous tuning to maximize operational performance
- Customer Escalation Support: Serve as a senior technical escalation point, stepping in on high-priority client engagements and architecture reviews when required
Skills
- 3+ years of experience directly managing security engineering or SOC teams in an enterprise or managed services environment
- 5+ years of comprehensive experience across Detection Engineering, SIEM, SOAR, and EDR/XDR platforms, serving as a technical authority on SecOps infrastructure and long-term automation strategy
- Strong hands-on coding proficiency (e.g., Python) with practical experience implementing modern engineering standards, such as Detection-as-Code (DaC), CI/CD pipelines for playbook deployment, and rigorous software development lifecycles within a SOC
- Profound understanding of APT attack lifecycles (e.g., initial access, lateral movement, data exfiltration, persistence mechanisms) and the ability to design advanced correlation logic and automated workflows to counter highly sophisticated threat actors
- Track record of driving engineering execution against defined SLAs and quality metrics while maintaining high team performance
- Exceptional collaborative skills with the proven ability to seamlessly bridge deep technical engineering concepts with executive, client-facing, and cross-functional communication
- Practical experience leveraging AI, LLMs, or Machine Learning to enhance threat detection, streamline playbook generation, or drive efficiency in SOC workflows
- Prior hands-on experience in Incident Response (IR) or Threat Hunting
- Direct experience with Cortex XSIAM or Cortex XSOAR platforms
- Practical experience utilizing frameworks like MITRE ATT&CK to drive coverage mapping and detection gap analyses
Benefits
- This role is remote.
- The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus.
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