Senior Incident Response Security Consultant, Mandiant, Google Cloud

Google LLC; Virginia (MN, AL); Remote; USD 138,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Mandiant, part of Google Cloud, seeks a Senior Incident Response Security Consultant to lead end-to-end incident investigations across cloud, network, and endpoints. You will guide technical teams, communicate findings to executives, and drive remediation strategies on high-profile engagements.

Join a global leader in incident response, threat intelligence, and managed services, with opportunities to mentor teams and shape client outcomes while working across diverse industries.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS/IS/Cybersecurity or equivalent.
• 5 years of experience end-to-end incident response investigations.
• 5 years of investigative experience with network forensics, malware triage, cloud forensics, or disk/memory forensics.

Responsibilities

• Lead incident response engagements with cloud, endpoint and network sources of evidence.
• Develop comprehensive reports and present remediation strategies to stakeholders.
• Collaborate with clients and internal teams to investigate and contain incidents.
• Mentor security consultants and guide client-facing projects.

Skills

Incident response

Network forensics

Cloud forensics

Malware triage

Threat hunting

Scripting / programming

Communication to leadership

Education

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

Tools

Splunk

Cloud platform certifications

Job description

Senior Incident Response Security Consultant, Mandiant, Google Cloud

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• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Cybersecurity, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience working end to end incident response investigations, analysis, or containment actions.
• 5 years of investigative experience with network forensics, malware triage analysis, cloud forensics, or disk and memory forensics.

Preferred qualifications:

• Certifications in cloud platforms.
• Experience in Cloud incident response or forensics.
• Experience communicating investigative findings and strategies to technical staff, executive leadership, legal counsel, and internal and external clients.
• Experience with cybersecurity, scripting, or programming.
• Experience with Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) tools (e.g., Splunk), log analysis, operating system forensics (Linux, macOS), or threat hunting.

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.

In this role, you will understand existing and emerging threat actors, and identify rapidly changing tools, tactics, and procedures of attackers. You will understand evolving attacker behavior and motivations, participate in and manage large client-facing projects, and train and mentor other security consultants.

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 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.

In this role, you will understand existing and emerging threat actors, and identify rapidly changing tools, tactics, and procedures of attackers. You will understand evolving attacker behavior and motivations, participate in and manage large client-facing projects, and train and mentor other security consultants.

US: $138000 - $200000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

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• 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.
• Lead client-facing incident response engagements, examining cloud, endpoint, and network-based sources of evidence.
• Develop comprehensive reports and presentations, communicating findings and remediation strategies to technical stakeholders and executive leadership.

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Google is a global company and, in order to facilitate efficient collaboration and communication globally, English proficiency is a requirement for all roles unless stated otherwise in the job posting.

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