- Reston, VA
- Full-Time
- <48 Hours
Senior Incident Response Security Consultant, Google Cloud, Mandiant.
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Senior Incident Response Security Consultant, Google Cloud, Mandiant: our view in 3 lines...
- The Role:This role is for an experienced incident response security consultant working on cybersecurity investigations and threat response for Google Cloud Mandiant clients.
- The Person:The person will investigate and contain security incidents, perform forensic analysis, conduct threat hunting and malware triage, and identify attacker tools, tactics, procedures, and indicators of compromise.
- Requirements:The ideal candidate has a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Cybersecurity, or a related technical field, plus 5 years of experience in incident response and forensic investigation.
About the role
Minimum qualifications:
- 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.
- Ability to travel up to 30%.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience managing enterprise systems or networks.
- Experience conducting threat hunting in various environments.
- Ability to communicate investigative findings and strategies to technical staff, executive leadership, legal counsel, and internal and external clients.
- Ability to quickly learn and use a new technology stack or platform.
- Proficient with commercial and open source forensics suites such as XWays and TSK.
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.
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:
- 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.
