Principal Incident Response Security Consultant, Mandiant, Google Cloud

Socket.dev; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 168,000 - 243,000; Full time

Job summary

Mandiant, part of Google Cloud, seeks an Incident Response Consultant to deliver incident response, assessment, transformation, managed detection and response, and training services at scale. You will investigate and respond to threats, coordinating containment, remediation, and crisis management across diverse engagements.

Individual pay is determined by job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. US: $168000 - $243000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Cybersecurity or related technical field or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience assessing and developing cybersecurity solutions across multiple security domains.
• 8 years of investigative experience with network forensics, malware triage analysis, cloud forensics, or disk and memory forensics.
• 8 years of experience working end-to-end incident response investigations, analysis, or containment actions.
• Experience with incident management, customer-facing and computer forensics.
• Ability to travel up to 20% of the time as needed.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with internal and customer teams to investigate and contain incidents.
• Conduct host forensics, network forensics, log analysis, and malware triage in support of incident response investigations.
• Lead complex client-facing investigations and examine cloud, endpoint, and network-based sources of evidence.
• Recognize and codify attacker tools, tactics, and procedures (TTPs) and indicators of compromise (IOCs); Build scripts, tools, or methodologies to enhance incident investigation processes.
• Develop and present comprehensive and accurate reports and presentations for both technical and executive audiences.

Skills

Incident response

Forensics

Threat hunting

Cloud forensics

Malware triage

Network forensics

Investigation leadership

Containment actions

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Cybersecurity or related technical field or equivalent practical experience

Job description

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Cybersecurity or related technical field or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience assessing and developing cybersecurity solutions across multiple security domains.
• 8 years of investigative experience with network forensics, malware triage analysis, cloud forensics, or disk and memory forensics.
• 8 years of experience working end-to-end incident response investigations, analysis, or containment actions.
• Experience with incident management, customer-facing and computer forensics.
• Ability to travel up to 20% of the time as needed.

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.
• People Management experience
• Ability to communicate investigative findings and strategies to technical staff, executive leadership, legal counsel, and internal and external clients.
• 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.

US: $168000 - $243000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits

Learn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with internal and customer teams to investigate and contain incidents.
• Conduct host forensics, network forensics, log analysis, and malware triage in support of incident response investigations.
• Lead complex client-facing investigations and examine cloud, endpoint, and network-based sources of evidence.
• Recognize and codify attacker tools, tactics, and procedures (TTPs) and indicators of compromise (IOCs); Build scripts, tools, or methodologies to enhance Mandiant’s incident investigation processes that can be applied to current and future investigations.
• Develop and present comprehensive and accurate reports and presentations for both technical and executive audiences.