SOC Security Engineer (InfoSec) - FEDRAMP - US CIT REQ'D - Santa Clara, CA HQ onsite 3 days per week

Your Career .  As Staff SOC Security Engineer, you will join a team of analysts and engineers who protect the enterprise that aims to protect the world from cyberattacks. In this role, you will quickly become an expert in Palo Alto Networks security products; primarily XDR, XSIAM, Next Generation Firewalls and Prisma Cloud.  You will also provide feedback to the engineering teams to continually improve our world leading security products.Many SOCs are drowning in false positive alerts, but Palo Alto Networks SOC changed the game and re-invented how Security Operations should function.  Our vigilant focus on automation, prevention and high-fidelity alerts enables our analysts to be more proactive.  You will not spend your day sifting through alerts.  Instead, your day will be split evenly between (1) analyzing and responding to high fidelity alerts (2) proactive threat hunting and (3) contributing to a variety of different projects aligned to your personal interests.Continuous learning is also key to our Security Operations team’s philosophy.  We offer many channels for learning to ensure our teammates are up to speed with the latest TTPs.Your Impact Monitor and analyze alerts to confirm security incidentsPerform analysis of true positive alerts to determine root cause and impactOwn and lead individual incident response activities by analyzing security alerts and coordinating responses - Perform in-depth event review and analysis where appropriate -  Analyze events, research the potential cause, and recommend a course of actionHunt for indications of compromise across multiple technology platformsContinuously improve our alerting use cases and the threat hunting programCollaborate with SOC Automation team to automate tedious, boring activitiesContribute to proof-of-concept assessments of new security productsGenerate reports detailing security incidents for security leaders and the businessShow off your excellent communication skills in post mortem reviews of incident response activities, to facilitate continuous improvementResearch security trends with the goal of improving our own processes and tools