Principal Incident Response Security Consultant, Mandiant, Google Cloud
About the role
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.
Responsibilities
- Manage incident response engagements, compromise assessments, and threat-hunting operations with minimal guidance.
- Execute digital forensics, host-based live response, network traffic analysis, and static/dynamic malware analysis across cloud (GCP) and on-premise environments.
- Automate forensic tasks and build team utility tools using programming languages.
- Oversee the project lifecycle for multiple consulting engagements, including planning, budgeting, and quality control.
- Draft investigation reports and present technical findings clearly to client stakeholders, leadership, and external legal counsel.
Qualifications
- Minimum qualifications: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Cybersecurity, related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 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.
Pay
US: $168,000 - $244,000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits
Schedule
Full-time
Benefits
- Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance
- Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with company match
- Paid Time Off: 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at a rate of 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years of employment
- Sick Time: 40 hours/year (increased to 69 hours/year for Seattle) including 5 discretionary sick days per instance
- Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks
- Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks
- Holidays: 13 paid days per year