Cyber - Palo Alto SecOps - Senior Consultant at Deloitte
McLean, VA
$105,400–$207,800from the description
Aug 1, 2026
McLean, VA
Sep 25, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A Senior Consultant role on Deloitte's Cyber Defense & Resilience team, focused on designing and deploying next-generation SOC platforms — primarily Cortex XSIAM — for enterprise clients. Day-to-day work spans detection engineering, SOAR playbook development, log source integration, and automated incident response workflows. The role involves significant client-facing advisory work and requires roughly 50% travel.
Senior level · 4+ years · Bachelor's required · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $132,021 (middle half $99,961–$167,095). This posting is about at that midpoint.
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Why we read it this way (6)
The required qualifications list Cortex XSIAM, Cortex XDR, and Splunk together as examples of qualifying SIEM/SecOps platforms — Cortex XSIAM is the primary platform named in the role description, with Splunk listed as an alternative. Cortex XDR appears separately as both a SIEM/SecOps tool and an EDR platform.
The EDR requirement names Microsoft Defender, Cortex XDR, and CrowdStrike as interchangeable examples; Microsoft Defender is used as the primary name with the others as alternatives.
The Palo Alto Networks PCNSE certification (or equivalent) is listed in the Required section alongside the EDR experience bullet, making it a hard gate despite being a certification rather than a technology skill.
The 4+ years overall experience requirement is the top-level gate; the 3+ year sub-requirements are tied to specific technology/domain areas and are captured on those skills.
CISSP, CEH, and CCSP appear under Preferred qualifications alongside previous consulting experience — listed as preferred rather than required.
Ignored 2 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): Palo Alto Networks PCNSE, Palo Alto Networks next-generation firewalls.
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