Faher Bakri

Cybersecurity consultant with 6+ years delivering large-scale SIEM, XDR, and SOAR programs for enterprise and government clients across EMEA. Vendor-side professional-services leader who has driven 30+ next-gen SIEM (Cortex XSIAM) deployments, migrated customers off legacy SIEM platforms, and secured national-scale events. Combines deep SOC operations, detection engineering, and red-team experience with the client-facing consulting skills needed to translate technical work into executive value.

Canadian permanent resident, relocating to Canada and available immediately.

Senior Professional Services Consultant I - Palo Alto Networks - Dubai, UAE

(2023-06 - 2026-07)

• Led 30+ Cortex XSIAM deployments across EMEA, including the first deployments in several emerging and Arab-region markets and multiple multi-million-dollar SOC transformation programs.
• Migrated multiple enterprise customers from legacy SIEM platforms to Cortex XSIAM, owning log-source onboarding, detection strategy, and correlation-rule design.
• Partnered with Global Security Architects to define delivery methodologies and consulting best practices adopted across the professional-services organization.
• Delivered XSIAM and consulting-skills training for the global Scale Team, and supported pre-sales through proof-of-concept and proof-of-value engagements.
• Hired, interviewed, and onboarded new consultants and resident engineers.

Resident Engineer - Palo Alto Networks - Doha, Qatar

(2022-01 - 2023-05)

• Led the Security Operations Center for the FIFA World Cup 2022, securing 8 stadiums and coordinating detection and response across the tournament.
• Designed and deployed 20+ SOC use cases and customized 20+ XSOAR playbooks, integrations, automations, and classifiers for incident detection and response.
• Operated and fine-tuned Cortex XDR and XSOAR; conducted OT & IT vulnerability assessments and coordinated mitigation.
• Reported daily operations and incidents to senior leadership; collaborated with Unit 42, the Ministry of Interior, and NSA red teams on assessments and cyber drills.

Cybersecurity Analyst - Qatar Airways - Doha, Qatar

(2019-09 - 2021-12)

• Performed 200+ internal and external web-application penetration tests, plus Active Directory penetration testing and external red-team assessments.
• Executed regular vulnerability assessments across global infrastructure and managed threat intelligence, IOCs, and government advisories.
• Designed and delivered an e-learning cybersecurity awareness course for 40,000+ staff; ran phishing campaigns using GoPhish.
• Developed secure-coding guidelines; procured, configured, and deployed enterprise security solutions.

MSc - Cybersecurity - Hamad Bin Khalifa University (2018 - 2020)

BSc - Computer Science - Qatar University (2014 - 2018)