Adversarial Cyber Defense Lead Consultant

Google; Alberta; Hybrid; CAD 198,000 - 202,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Bonus target 20%

Benefits

Job summary

Google's Mandiant unit seeks a Principal Consultant, Adversarial Resilience and Cyber Defence to embed with Canadian national security and defence clients in Alberta. You will lead engagements across cyber defence, security engineering, detection and response, and offensive security, designing robust defensive architectures and testing controls.

In this role you will emulate adversaries, validate defenses, and translate findings into actionable resilience roadmaps for executives and operators.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Cybersecurity, related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in SOC analyst, malware research, threat hunting, or similar roles, working with EDR and SIEM technologies.
• Experience leading incident response activities and working with executive stakeholders.
• Candidates must hold or be eligible to obtain a valid Personnel Security Clearance as a condition of employment.

Responsibilities

• Lead multi-disciplinary engagements across cyber defence, security engineering, detection and response, and offensive security for Canadian national security and defence clients.
• Execute adversary emulation and security validation testing, simulating advanced tradecraft and threat actor techniques to stress-test defensive controls, expose systemic weaknesses, and quantify mitigation efficacy.
• Design and engineer robust defensive architectures and automated detection and response pipelines across sovereign, cloud, and on‑premises mission‑critical environments.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to client executives and operational commanders, translating offensive findings, defensive metrics, and cyber threat intelligence into actionable resilience strategies and risk‑reduction roadmaps.
• Develop custom tooling, automation, and purple‑teaming playbooks using modern scripting, agentic frameworks, and Mandiant telemetry to scale detection engineering and validation testing capabilities.

Skills

SOC analysis

Threat hunting

Incident response

Executive stakeholder communication

Security clearances

English and French

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science

Tools

EDR

SIEM

Job description

Google's Mandiant unit seeks a Principal Consultant, Adversarial Resilience and Cyber Defence to embed with Canadian national security and defence clients in Alberta. You will lead engagements across cyber defence, security engineering, detection and response, and offensive security, designing robust defensive architectures and testing controls.

In this role you will emulate adversaries, validate defenses, and translate findings into actionable resilience roadmaps for executives and operators.