Associate Red Team Consultant, US Central, Mandiant, Google Cloud

Google LLC; Wisconsin; On-site; USD 89,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

Google LLC's Mandiant unit seeks an Associate Red Team Consultant for the US Central region. You will lead red and purple team engagements, emulate threats, and perform pen tests on networks, apps and devices while documenting findings for client security programs.

Role involves communicating complex concepts to executives and technical teams, expanding capabilities with research and tool development, and collaborating across cross-functional teams within Google Cloud and Mandiant.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS, IS, Cybersecurity or related field or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience with end-to-end pen testing, scoping, vulnerability exploitation and remediation reporting.
• Ability to travel up to 30% of the time.

Responsibilities

• Perform red and purple team assessments and adversarial emulation for client environments.
• Test external and internal networks, web applications, mobile apps, and wireless security.
• Develop documentation and present complex security findings to stakeholders.

Skills

Penetration testing

Threat emulation

Red team

Purple team

Education

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

Tools

Wireless testing tools

Web/mobile security tools

Job description

Associate Red Team Consultant, US Central, Mandiant, Google Cloud

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Remote locations: Wisconsin, USA; United States.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Cybersecurity, related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience with end-to-end pen testing conducting scoping, manual vulnerability exploitation, and authoring technical remediation reports across network, web application, mobile, cloud, social engineering, scripting, or tool development.
• Ability to travel up to 30% of the time.

Preferred qualifications:

• Certifications related to offensive security including OSCE, OSEP, OSEE, OSCP, CCSAS, CCT, INF, or relevant SANS courses.
• Experience implementing or assessing information security implementation or assessment of security controls.
• Experience with tools used for wireless, web application, and network security testing.
• Excellent written/verbal communication skills, with the ability to develop documentation and explain technical details in a concise manner.

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 Mandiant Red Team Consulting team member, you will be responsible for assessing and advising clients on both technical and process-based controls for all manner of environments. You will perform Red and Purple Team assessments, including adversarial emulation of cyber attacks against customer organizations, and other technical cyber assessments including external pen testing, web application, mobile, and wireless security testing. You will expand the team’s capabilities through tool creation, research on offensive techniques, incorporation of threat actor intelligence, internal presentations, and knowledge sharing.

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

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 Mandiant Red Team Consulting team member, you will be responsible for assessing and advising clients on both technical and process-based controls for all manner of environments. You will perform Red and Purple Team assessments, including adversarial emulation of cyber attacks against customer organizations, and other technical cyber assessments including external pen testing, web application, mobile, and wireless security testing. You will expand the team’s capabilities through tool creation, research on offensive techniques, incorporation of threat actor intelligence, internal presentations, and knowledge sharing.

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.

US: $88500 - $125000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

Learn more about benefits at Google .

• Perform red and purple team assessments, assumed breach assessments (e.g., red team engagements with a pre‑deployed implant), ransomware readiness reviews (e.g., assessing susceptibility to modern ransomware threats), threat analysis, and social engineering assessments.
• Conduct external and internal wireless assessments, web and mobile applications testing, and embedded system assessments.
• Recognize and safely utilize attacker tools, tactics, and procedures.

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