Senior Incident Response Consultant

Job description / Role

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.
- 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, trainings, and presentations for technical and executive audiences.
- Utilize Mandiant technology to conduct investigations and examine endpoint and network-based sources of evidence.

Requirements

Minimum qualifications:

- Candidates will typically have 5 years of experience leading Incident Response investigations, analysis, or containment actions.
- Experience with network and log forensic analysis, malware triage analysis, and disk and memory forensics.
- Experience with enterprise security architecture and security controls.

Preferred qualifications:

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Certifications in Cloud Platforms (e.g. Google Cloud Platform).
- Experience with Cloud incident response or forensics, Cloud incident response or forensics.
- Ability to communicate investigative findings and strategies to technical staff, executive leadership, legal counsel, and internal and external clients.
- Excellent written/verbal communication skills, with the ability to develop documentation and explain technical details in a concise manner.
- Exceptional time management skills.

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.

Mandiant Services provides incident response, assessment, transformation, managed detection and response, and training services with direct tactical support. Our Senior Incident Response Consultants resolve security incidents quickly, effectively, and at scale with complete incident response including investigation, containment, remediation, and crisis management.

Part of Google Cloud, Mandiant is a recognized leader in dynamic cyber defense, threat intelligence and incident response services. By scaling decades of frontline experience, Mandiant helps organizations to be confident in their readiness to defend against and respond to cyber threats.

About the Company

Since our founding in 1998, Google has grown by leaps and bounds. Starting from two computer science students in a university dorm room, we now have thousands of employees and offices around the world. These Googlers build products that help create opportunities for everyone, whether down the street or across the globe.

It starts with how we work together. We’re building a company where people of different views, backgrounds and experiences can do their best work and show up for one another. A place where every Googler feels like they belong.

So whether you develop new technology or creative campaigns, craft beautiful products or breakthrough partnerships, your work here is a chance to accomplish things that matter. Bring your insight, imagination, and healthy disregard for the impossible. Bring everything that makes you unique. Together, we can build for everyone.