Senior Cyber Threat Intelligence Consultant, Mandiant

Job description / Role

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 7 years of experience in data analytics, cyber-security, technology research, anti-abuse, policy, or related fields.
• Experience in an intelligence practitioner role.
• Experience in the consumption, processing, and analysis of Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) within an operational environment, supporting monitoring, detection, and response.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience designing instructional materials and fostering a learning environment.
• Experience in analyzing network, endpoint, and security logs or telemetry for security investigations and threat hunting.
• Ability to approach addressing challenges, committed to enhancing CTI capabilities.
• Ability to teach technical concepts to a diverse audience.
• Ability to work in a cross-functional team environment with a focus on knowledge sharing and collaboration.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills (written and verbal) with the ability to influence cross-functionally at various levels.

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.

The Intelligence Capability Centre (ICC) services transform organizations from a technology-led mentality to an intelligence-driven capability. The ICC Consultant plays a pivotal role in evaluating and maturing the organization's Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) capabilities.

In this role, you will act as an expert advisor and will be responsible for guiding the development of CTI functions across the globe and empowering cyber-security organizations to leverage threat intelligence effectively at organizations. 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.

Responsibilities:

• Conduct a comprehensive assessment of the organization's current threat intelligence capabilities, needs, and risks.
• Design proactive CTI capabilities based upon discovery activities, in-line with best practices and desired client priorities.
• Design and develop a comprehensive CTI training curriculum aligned with the organization's needs and the chosen tools/frameworks.
• Deliver engaging training sessions to security analysts, engineers, and other team members on threat intelligence concepts, methodologies, and tools.
• Travel to client sites up to 50% of the time as needed to directly engage and deliver intelligence consulting services.

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.