Principal Consultant, Zero Trust Advisory, Proactive Services (Unit 42) - Remote

Your Career

In this client-facing role, the Principal Consultant will lead complex Zero Trust engagements and produce deliverables inclusive of findings, recommendations, best practices, technical capability enhancements, and strategic roadmap items. The ideal candidate thrives at the intersection of deep technical architecture and high-stakes consulting, translating complex Zero Trust theory into resilient, real-world deployments for our most sophisticated clients.

Your Impact

• Drive high-value, billable Zero Trust transformation engagements that convert complex security challenges into resilient architectural outcomes.

• Simultaneously deliver elite advisory services to our clients and assist in scaling Unit 42’s Zero Trust practice through technical innovation and business development.

• Assess enterprise architectures to expose hidden zones of implicit trust and high-risk lateral movement paths.

• Analyze enterprise telemetry and policy logs to identify visibility gaps across identity, device, and network layers.

• Execute Zero Trust risk assessments grounded in best practices such as NIST SP 800-207, the CISA ZT Maturity Model, and MITRE ATT&CK to quantify architectural vulnerabilities

• Devise strategic security transformation recommendations and solutions, to include Unit 42 services and Palo Alto Networks technology, to assist customers in reducing risks

• Design risk-based control sets that prioritize identity-centric protection and least-privilege access.

• Audit the technical integration of SASE, Identity, EDR/XDR, and Cloud Security to ensure they function as a unified, automated fabric rather than a collection of disconnected silos.

• Develop ZT Roadmaps that provide clients with a realistic, phased path to retiring legacy perimeter defenses.

• Scope new opportunities with prospective clients, including drafting statements of work and responding to Requests for Proposals (RFPs).

• Expand Unit 42’s market influence by spearheading high-visibility initiatives, from keynote speaking and industry publications to internal intellectual property development that cements our position as a leading authority on Zero Trust security.