Engagement Lead, Mandiant Consulting

Google; Canberra; Hybrid; AUD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Google's Mandiant Consulting team in Australia and New Zealand seeks a Security Consultant to help clients prepare for, mitigate, and respond to cyber threats. The role requires applying knowledge of CS, OS, networking and cloud services to real-world security challenges.

You will lead engagements, test networks, emulate attacker techniques, and present remediation roadmaps to executives and technical teams, driving risk-based outcomes and stronger security postures.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS/IT/Cybersecurity or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of cross-functional project/program management, consulting or client-facing work.

Responsibilities

• Govern end-to-end execution of medium-to-large cybersecurity engagements.
• Drive program management from planning to governance and budgets.
• Build relationships with multiple stakeholders and drive efficiencies.
• Plan and coordinate timelines and dependencies across client and internal teams.
• Coordinate technical and executive reports with remediation roadmaps.

Skills

Project management

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / IT / Cybersecurity

Job description

At Google, we have a vision of empowerment and equitable opportunity for all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and commit to building reconciliation through Google’s technology, platforms and people and we welcome Indigenous applicants. Please see our Reconciliation Action Plan for more information.

Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Melbourne VIC, Australia; Canberra ACT, Australia; Sydney NSW, Australia.

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Cybersecurity, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience in a cross-functional project/program management, consulting or a client-facing role.

Preferred qualifications

• Relevant cyber and project management industry certifications, TAFE certifications and SANS, ISC2, OffSec, GIAC, CompTIA, CREST.
• Experience in cybersecurity sales.
• Experience in one or more of Mandiant's core functional areas (incident response, offensive security, cyber strategy and transformation).
• Experience working with C level executives such as CISOs and the ability to set and manage expectations with executive stakeholders and team members.

About The Job

As a Security Consultant, you will be responsible for helping clients effectively prepare for, proactively mitigate, and detect and respond to cyber security threats. Security Consultants have an understanding of computer science, operating system functionality and networking, cloud services, corporate network environments and how to apply this knowledge to cyber security threats.

As a Security Consultant, you could work on engagements including assisting clients in navigating technically complex and high-profile incidents, performing forensic analysis, threat hunting, and malware triage. You may also test client networks, applications and devices by emulating the latest techniques to help them defend against threats, and will be the technical advocate for information security requirements and provide an in-depth understanding of the information security domain. You will also articulate and present complex concepts to business stakeholders, executive leadership, and technical contributors and successfully lead complex engagements alongside cross functional teams.

The Mandiant Consulting Go-to-Market (GTM) team for Australia and New Zealand (AuNZ) plays a central role in leading Mandiant consulting efforts across the AuNZ market. Our primary objective is to facilitate the consumption of Mandiant consulting services by directly engaging with customers through the entire consulting lifecycle. This engagement is conducted in close partnership with the Google Cloud Security Specialist Sales team, ensuring a cohesive and aligned approach to client needs. We harmonize Mandiant's comprehensive capabilities across all its functions, tailoring them to specific customer requirements and engaging effectively with all relevant stakeholders.

Part of Google Cloud, Mandiant is a recognized leader in dynamic cyber defense, threat intelligence and incident response services. Mandiant's cybersecurity expertise has earned the trust of security professionals and company executives around the world. Our unique combination of renowned frontline experience responding to some of the most complex breaches, nation-state grade threat intelligence, machine intelligence, and the industry's best security validation ensures that Mandiant knows more about today's advanced threats than anyone.

Responsibilities

• Govern the end-to-end execution of medium-to-large cyber security consulting engagements, ensuring they are delivered on time and within the agreed scope.
• Drive end-to-end program management from planning/scoping, milestone, kickoff materials, governance frameworks, tracking end-to-end budgets and issue management through delivery.
• Build relationships and exert tactful influence in a complex organization with multiple cross-functional stakeholders. Identify work/process inefficiencies and drive repeatable solutions to reduce or eliminate inefficiencies.
• Plan and execute work in a way that builds trust across teams, connecting clients and internal teams, and making sure inter dependencies are understood and planned for. Identify and integrate multiple adjacent or interrelated client/stakeholder project timelines, goals, and objectives.
• Partner with technical leads, coordinate comprehensive, high-quality technical, operational and executive reports that clearly outline security gaps and provide practical remediation roadmaps.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form .