Mission Manager, National Security, Mandiant

Google LLC; Ottawa; Hybrid; CAD 198,000 - 202,000; Full time

Job summary

Google, via Mandiant, seeks a Mission Manager, National Security, to lead a forward-deployed team delivering integrated cyber defence, threat intelligence, and AI-augmented detection for national security clients in Canada.

The role translates mission requirements into sovereign cyber solutions, collaborating with executive leaders and military commanders to drive transformational operational change.

Qualifications

• 8+ years advising, leading, and developing cybersecurity solutions across multiple domains.
• Experience applying advanced enterprise cybersecurity controls, threat intelligence, cloud security, and identity management frameworks.
• Experience in people management.
• Candidates must hold or be eligible to obtain a valid Personnel Security Clearance.

Responsibilities

• Help clients prepare for, mitigate, detect, and respond to cyber threats.
• Lead engagements, perform forensic analysis, threat hunting, and malware triage.
• Test client networks, apps and devices by emulating latest attack techniques.
• Articulate complex concepts to business stakeholders and lead cross-functional teams.
• Embed with Canadian national security and defence clients to build secure, resilient operations.

Skills

Security leadership

Cybersecurity

Cloud security

Threat intelligence

Incident response

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Information Security/Cybersecurity

Tools

GCP

Security tooling

Job description

Mission Manager, National Security, Mandiant

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• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Cybersecurity or a related technical field or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in advising on, leading, and developing cybersecurity solutions across multiple security domains, including: security operations, security development, cloud security, threat intelligence, incident response, threat hunting, or similar roles.
• Experience applying advanced enterprise cybersecurity controls, threat intelligence, cloud security controls, network development concepts, and identity management frameworks.
• Experience in people management.
• Candidates must hold or be eligible to obtain a valid Personnel Security Clearance as a condition of employment.

Preferred qualifications:

Relevant industry certifications (e.g., CISSP, CCSP, Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Security Developer, or equivalent).

• Direct experience building or securing AI/ML pipelines, utilizing AI security frameworks (e.g., OWASP Top 10 for LLMs, NIST AI RMF), or configuring secure cloud AI environments.
• Strong experience securing multi-cloud environments (Google Cloud Platform (GCP), cloud computing platform).
• Proven experience managing project lifecycles, establishing scope boundaries, tracking development milestones, and delivering complex client reports on time.
• Experience with threat modeling methodologies (e.g., STRIDE, PASTA) and application security perimeters.

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.

As a Mission Manager within Mandiant's National Security team, you will embed with Canadian national security and defence clients to help build a secure, resilient nation.

You will lead a forward-deployed team delivering integrated cyber defence, threat intelligence, security developing, AI-augmented detection and response, and continuous validation testing. Collaborating directly with executive civilian leaders and military commanders, you will translate mission requirements into advanced sovereign cyber solutions and drive transformational operational change.

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.

About the job

Canada: $198000 - $202000 (CAD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits

Learn more about benefits at Google.

• Lead a team of forward-deployed developers and advisors to deliver transformative cyber defence solutions and operations.
• Evaluate and advise on the secure deployment of modern workloads, specifically focusing on cloud-native ecosystems and the secure integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) platforms and pipelines.
• Identify challenges in customer cyber defence capabilities and formulate strategies for improvement, plan implementation of improvements, and execute/oversee plans to completion.
• Develop relationships and establish strong collaborative partnerships with executive stakeholders and key authorities to achieve project and long term strategic objectives.
• Develop and present comprehensive and accurate reports and presentations for both technical and executive audiences.

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