Incident Response Consultant, Mandiant, Google Cloud - Google
Sunnyvale, CA
About the Job
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Cybersecurity, related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 2 years of investigative experience with network forensics, malware triage analysis, cloud forensics, and disk and memory forensics.
- Ability to travel up to 20% of the time as required.
Preferred qualifications:
- Cloud incident response or forensic experience.
- Ability to communicate investigative findings and strategies to technical staff, executive leadership, legal counsel, and internal and external clients.
- Ability to successfully interface with clients (e.g., internal and external) and manage expectations of others.
- Excellent written/verbal communication skills, with the ability to develop documentation and explain technical details in a concise manner.
- Excellent time and project management skills.
About the job
Mandiant Services provides industry-leading incident response, assessment, transformation, managed detection and response, and training services with in-depth tactical support. Mandiant helps organizations effectively detect and respond to threats and reduce overall impact of business risk before, during, and after an incident. Our incident responders are able to resolve security incidents quickly, effectively and at scale with complete incident response including investigation, containment, remediation, and crisis management.
Customer-focused teams of computer Incident Response Consultants are trained to investigate, contain, and recover from the most complex data security incidents. The teams provide white glove service, helping customers navigate technically complex and high-profile incidents.
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 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. By scaling decades of frontline experience, Mandiant helps organizations to be confident in their readiness to defend against and respond to cyber threats.
The US base salary range for this full-time position is $105,000-$154,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target salaries for the position across all US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.
Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or 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.
- Build scripts, tools, or methodologies to enhance Mandiant’s incident investigation processes.
- Develop and present comprehensive and accurate reports, trainings, and presentations for both technical and executive audiences.
- Conduct host forensics, network forensics, log analysis, and malware triage in support of incident response investigations.