Senior Security Consultant, SOAR, Mandiant Google Cloud

Google; United States; Remote; USD 138,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Google Cloud's Mandiant team seeks a Senior Security Consultant for SOAR orchestration and response. You will enable automation across the Cyber Defense Center, collaborating with Mandiant architects, analysts, and client IT resources to define requirements and deliver automation improvements.

Ideal candidates have extensive SOAR and SOC/CSIRT experience, strong Python scripting, and knowledge of SIEMs. You will help automate daily tasks, build playbooks, and mentor junior engineers while

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience in a technical field.
• 5 years configuring and maintaining SOAR technologies.
• 3 years in SOC/CSIRT or incident response teams.
• Experience with SIEM solutions and writing queries, searches, alerts, dashboards.
• Scripting experience with Python.

Responsibilities

• Identify challenges in customer CDCs and plan automation improvements.
• Advise on technologies relied upon by the client CDC, CSIRT, and SOC.
• Provide expertise for SOAR and other SOC technologies that assist in incident response.
• Create and modify SOAR playbooks written in Python.
• Mentor junior engineers in SOAR playbook and program development.

Skills

Python scripting

SOAR configurations

SOC/CSIRT collaboration

SIEM usage

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent in a technical field

Tools

SOAR platforms

SIEM technologies

APIs integration

Job description

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Cybersecurity or a related technical field or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience configuring and maintaining Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR) Technologies as part of Security Engineering, System Administration, or a similar role.
• 3 years of experience working with Security Operations Center (SOC)/Computer Security Incident Response Team (CSIRT) or other incident response related teams.
• Experience with Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) solutions (e.g., writing queries, searches, alerts, dashboards).
• Experience in scripting (e.g., Python).

Preferred qualifications

• One or more of the following certifications or similar: CompTIA Security+, CompTIA Network+; CISCO (CCNA); ISC2 (CISSP); SANS (GSEC, GCIH, GCED, GCFA, GCIA, GNFA, GPEN).
• Experience managing and maintaining SOAR platforms and its dependencies, and working with/integrating APIs into automation playbooks.
• Experience with commercial SIEM technologies (e.g., Google SecOps, Splunk, Helix, Devo, Sentinel).
• Working knowledge of scripting languages (e.g., Python).
• Understanding of security controls for platforms/devices (e.g., Linux, network equipment), web-based APIs/RESTful programming (e.g., Python libraries), and data manipulation/analysis libraries (e.g., Pandas).
• Understanding of the incident response, containment, and remediation process.

About the job

As a Senior Security Consultant, Security Orchestration, Automation and Response (SOAR), you will be responsible for enabling the technology and tools required to effectively automate and orchestrate daily tasks within a Cyber Defense Center (CDC). You will collaborate with multiple cross-functional teams like Mandiant Architects, Mandiant Analysts, Client Information Technology (IT) resources, and other business resource owners, to define requirements and deliver recommendations focused on technologies, processes, scripting, and improvements required to support automation tasks within a CDC.

In this role, you will work as a member of a highly technical team in a rapidly changing environment, administer a variety of information security technologies, learn new emerging technologies, and be passionate about protecting customer data and corporate assets from the various threats facing multiple industries.

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

Learn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities

• Identify challenges in customer Cyber Defense Centers and formulate strategies for improvement, identify candidates for automation, plan implementation of improvements, and execute/oversee plans to completion.
• Advise on technologies relied upon by the client CDC, CSIRT, and Security Operations Center (SOC).
• Provide expertise for SOAR and other SOC technologies that assist in incident response.
• Create and modify SOAR playbooks written in Python.
• Partner with client stakeholders and cross-functional teams to drive resolution for security issues while mentoring junior engineers in SOAR playbook and program development.

Remote eligible

Remote locations: Illinois, USA; California, USA; Kansas, USA; New York, USA.

Applicants in the County of Los Angeles: Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.

Applicants in San Francisco: Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.