Incident Response Security Consultant, Mandiant (English)

Google; Quebec; On-site; CAD 134,000 - 137,000; Full time

Job summary

Google (via Mandiant) seeks an Incident Response Consultant to provide incident response, assessment, and managed detection services. You will assist clients in navigating complex incidents, perform forensic analysis, threat hunting, and malware triage across engagements in Canada.

Canada: CAD 134000-137000 + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits. Individual pay is determined by skills, experience, and training. Remote locations across multiple provinces are available.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Cybersecurity, related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 3 years of experience end-to-end incident response investigations, analysis, or containment actions.
• 3 years of investigative experience with network forensics, malware triage analysis, cloud forensics, or disk and memory forensics.
• Ability to communicate in English fluently with internal partners and customer teams.
• Ability to travel up to 30%.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with internal and customer teams to investigate and contain incidents.
• Recognize and codify attacker Tools, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs) and Indicators of Compromise (IOCs).
• Conduct host forensics, network forensics, log analysis, and malware triage in support of incident response investigations.

Skills

Incident response

Network forensics

Cloud forensics

English communication

Travel willingness

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IS/Cybersecurity or equivalent

Tools

Cloud platform certifications

Job description

This posting is for a new vacancy.

Google utilizes AI tools to assist in assessing candidates in our hiring processes.

If needed, use this French Canadian translation: "Google utilise des outils d'IA pour faciliter l'évaluation des candidats dans le cadre de nos processus de recrutement."

Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following:

Remote locations: Alberta, CA; British Columbia, CA; Nova Scotia, CA; Ontario, CA; Quebec, CA.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Cybersecurity, related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 3 years of experience working end to end incident response investigations, analysis, or containment actions.
• 3 years of investigative experience with network forensics, malware triage analysis, cloud forensics, or disk and memory forensics.
• Ability to communicate in English fluently to work with internal partners and customer teams.
• Ability to travel up to 30%.

Preferred qualifications:

• Certifications in cloud platforms.
• Experience in security competitions, Capture the Flags (CTFs) or testing platforms such as Hack the Box, TryHackMe, Overthewire, etc.
• Ability to communicate investigative findings and strategies to technical staff, executive leadership, legal counsel, and internal and external clients.
• Ability to communicate in French fluently, to work with internal partners and customer teams.
• Excellent time and project management skills.

About the job

As an Incident Response Consultant, you will provide industry-leading incident response, assessment, transformation, managed detection and response, and training services with in-depth tactical support. You will help organizations effectively detect and respond to threats and reduce the overall impact of business risk before, during, and after an incident. You will be able to resolve security incidents quickly, effectively and at scale with complete incident response including investigation, containment, remediation, and crisis management.

In this role, you will work on engagements including assisting clients in navigating technically complex and high-profile incidents, performing forensic analysis, threat hunting, and malware triage.

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.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

Canada: $134000 - $137000 (CAD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with internal and customer teams to investigate and contain incidents.
• Recognize and codify attacker Tools, Tactics, and Procedures (TTPs) and Indicators of Compromise (IOCs) that can be applied to current and future investigations.
• Conduct host forensics, network forensics, log analysis, and malware triage in support of incident response investigations.

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.