Job Title:  T&T | Cyber: D&R | Palo Alto XSIAM Engineer | Manager I Hyderabad

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Deloitte helps organizations prevent cyberattacks and protect valuable assets. We believe in being secure, vigilant, and resilient—not only by looking at how to prevent and respond to attacks, but at how to manage cyber risk in a way that allows you to unleash new opportunities. Embed cyber risk at the start of strategy development for more effective management of information and technology risks  

Your work profile.  

As a Manager in our Cyber Team, you’ll build and nurture positive working relationships with teams and clients with the intention to exceed client expectations: - 

Key Responsibilities:

We are seeking an accomplished Engineering Manager – Palo Alto XSIAM to lead the design, development, and optimization of our Palo Alto Cortex XSIAM platform within the Cyber Defense organization.

The ideal candidate will have 10+ years of experience in cybersecurity engineering and SOC operations, with deep technical expertise in Palo Alto’s Cortex XSIAM and XSOAR platforms.

This role will drive platform scalability, detection engineering, data analytics, and automation initiatives, while leading a team of engineers to deliver cutting-edge security visibility and operational excellence.

• Platform Ownership: Lead end-to-end architecture, implementation, and lifecycle management of Palo Alto Cortex XSIAM for enterprise and MSSP environments.
• Engineering Leadership: Manage and mentor a team of SIEM engineers, detection engineers, and SOAR developers, fostering innovation and technical excellence.
• Detection Engineering: Oversee the creation and tuning of custom XQL queries, correlation logic, analytic rules, and behavioral detections mapped to MITRE ATT&CK.
• Data Onboarding & Normalization: Direct the ingestion and normalization of diverse telemetry sources (firewalls, EDR, cloud logs, identity, network, and SaaS apps) into the XSIAM data lake.
• Automation & Orchestration: Guide the development of Cortex XSOAR playbooks and automated workflows to enhance enrichment, correlation, and response efficiency.
• Architecture & Scalability: Define best practices for data schema, retention policies, and ingestion pipelines to ensure high-performance, large-scale XSIAM deployments.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with SOC operations, threat intelligence, and cloud engineering teams to align detections and improve contextual awareness across incidents.
• Platform Optimization: Continuously refine analytics logic, enrichments, and integrations to improve detection accuracy, reduce false positives, and enhance system performance.
• Integration Management: Supervise integration of multiple Palo Alto products (Cortex XDR, Prisma Cloud, Cortex Data Lake, NGFW, ADEM) and third-party tools (O365, AWS, Okta, CrowdStrike).
• Governance & Standards: Establish engineering policies for rule management, parser versioning, documentation, and quality assurance within the XSIAM environment.
• Incident Response Support: Provide escalation-level technical support to SOC analysts during critical incidents, assisting in RCA and forensic analysis via XQL queries.
• Reporting & Metrics: Deliver engineering dashboards tracking ingestion health, rule efficacy, automation adoption, and system uptime.
• Innovation & R&D: Stay updated on Palo Alto’s XSIAM roadmap and new capabilities; pilot advanced analytics, AI-driven detections, and adaptive correlation models.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or Information Technology.
• 10+ years of experience in cybersecurity engineering, SIEM/SOAR administration, or SOC architecture.
• Minimum 5+ years of direct hands-on or leadership experience with Palo Alto Cortex XSIAM and XSOAR.
• Expertise in XQL (Cortex Query Language), detection lifecycle management, and data analytics workflows.
• Proven experience managing log ingestion pipelines, schema design, and correlation logic in large-scale SOC environments.
• Deep understanding of threat detection, response workflows, and behavior-based analytics.
• Strong leadership skills with experience building and guiding high-performing engineering teams.
• Proficiency in Python, JSON, or REST API integrations for extending platform capabilities.
• Familiarity with MITRE ATT&CK, NIST CSF, ISO 27001, and related frameworks.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and project delivery skills.

Preferred Certifications

• • Palo Alto Networks Certified Detection and Response Engineer (PCDRE)
  • Palo Alto Networks Certified Security Automation Engineer (PCSAE)
  • Palo Alto Networks Certified Security Engineer (PCNSE)
  • CISM / CISSP / CCSP / ITIL v4 / PMP (preferred for governance and leadership roles)
  • Cloud Security Certifications: AWS, Azure, or GCP Security Engineer (advantageous)

Location and way of working:

Base location: Hyderabad

Professional is required to work from office.

Your role as Manager

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In addition to living our purpose, Senior Executive across our organization must strive to be:

• Inspiring - Leading with integrity to build inclusion and motivation
• Committed to creating purpose - Creating a sense of vision and purpose
• Agile - Achieving high-quality results through collaboration and Team unity
• Skilled at building diverse capability - Developing diverse capabilities for the future
• Persuasive / Influencing - Persuading and influencing stakeholders
• Collaborating - Partnering to build new solutions
• Delivering value - Showing commercial acumen
• Committed to expanding business - Leveraging new business opportunities
• Analytical Acumen - Leveraging data to recommend impactful approach and solutions through the power of analysis and visualization
• Effective communication – Must be well abled to have well-structured and well-articulated conversations to achieve win-win possibilities
• Engagement Management / Delivery Excellence - Effectively managing engagement(s) to ensure timely and proactive execution as well as course correction for the success of engagement(s).

• Managing change - Responding to changing environment with resilience
• Managing Quality & Risk - Delivering high quality results and mitigating risks with utmost integrity and precision
• Strategic Thinking & Problem Solving - Applying strategic mindset to solve business issues and complex problems
• Tech Savvy - Leveraging ethical technology practices to deliver high impact for clients and for Deloitte
• Empathetic leadership and inclusivity - creating a safe and thriving environment where everyone's valued for who they are, use empathy to understand others to adapt our behaviours and attitudes to become more inclusive. 

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