Principal Strategic Application Security Consultant, Mandiant, Google Cloud

Google Inc.; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 168,000 - 243,000; Full time

Job summary

Google Cloud's Mandiant team seeks an experienced Principal Strategic Application Security Consultant to own workstreams and drive enterprise security initiatives across applications and cloud environments.

You will engage with C-suite stakeholders, mentor staff, and guide secure development lifecycle practices while leveraging Python/Java expertise to shape long-term AppSec strategy.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Cybersecurity, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8+ years in application information security, infrastructure, software, or cloud platforms.
• 8+ years in cybersecurity risk management, threat identification, or security solution development.
• Ability to travel up to 30% of the time.

Responsibilities

• Own and lead complex, customer-facing engagements as a Principal Application Security Consultant.
• Direct cross-functional teams to reduce security risk across apps and cloud environments.
• Influence executives on risk priorities and secure-by-design transformations.
• Oversee secure code reviews and mentor juniors on vulnerabilities and best practices.

Skills

Application security

Cloud security

Risk management

Stakeholder influence

Security metrics

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Python

Java

Job description

Principal Strategic Application Security Consultant, Mandiant, Google Cloud

Google Illinois, USA ; United States Remote eligible

Advanced

Experience owning outcomes and decision making, solving ambiguous problems and influencing stakeholders;deep expertise in domain.

The application window will be open until at least August 31, 2026. This opportunity will remain online based on business needs which may be before or after the specified date. Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following:

Remote locations: Illinois, USA; United States.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Cybersecurity, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience with application information security, infrastructure, software, or platforms within cloud services.
• 8 years of experience with cybersecurity risk management, threat identification, or security solution development.
• Ability to travel up to 30% of the time.

Preferred qualifications:

• Certifications related to specific cloud platforms.
• 4 years of experience Application development, leading application/software projects and customer relationships while working cross-functionally in a large organization.
• Experience implementing industry-leading practices around cyber risks and cloud security for clients’ cloud security frameworks using industry standards.
• Experience with cloud governance, with the ability to convey governance principles to cloud computing in terms of policies.
• Excellent time and project management skills.

About the job

The Mandiant Strategic team helps clients reduce business risk by strengthening their cybersecurity programs. We streamline security efforts, prioritize risk mitigation, and drive continuous improvement across the entire security landscape. This includes application security (AppSec) and secure software development lifecycle (SDLC) practices. We support clients with incident response recovery, cyber program transformations, and comprehensive security assessments covering infrastructure, applications, and cloud environments.

As an Application Security Consultant, you will own a workstream, acting as a trusted advisor and driving client objectives. We're a team combining cybersecurity expertise, agile principles, and project management to deliver impactful and lasting improvements to our external clients' security posture. You will act as an executive customer-facing leader driving application security engagements for our enterprise clients. 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

• Utilize broad application security expertise to separately own, scope, and lead complex customer-facing engagements as a Principal Application Security Consultant, trusted project owner, and industry specialist.
• Direct cross-functional teams to architect and drive scalable, measurable security risk reduction across application and cloud environments, leveraging investigative systems thinking and advanced security telemetry data for enterprise-level decision-making.
• Influence and secure alignment with director and C-suite level stakeholders regarding macro risk priorities, security infrastructure transformations, and systemic technical debt reduction, driving change management initiatives and secure-by-design orchestration.
• Oversee secure code reviews, mentor junior team members on mitigating complex or ambiguous vulnerabilities, and review project deliverables, leveraging advanced knowledge of modern development languages (e.g., Python, Java) while designing long-term product strategy to optimize organizational AppSec and DevSecOps maturity.

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