Principal Strategic Application Security Consultant, Mandiant, Google Cloud

About the role

The Mandiant Strategic team helps clients reduce business risk by strengthening their cybersecurity programs. We streamline security efforts, prioritize risk mitigation, and drive continuous improvement across the entire security landscape. This includes application security (AppSec) and secure software development lifecycle (SDLC) practices. We support clients with incident response recovery, cyber program transformations, and comprehensive security assessments covering infrastructure, applications, and cloud environments.

Responsibilities

• Own a workstream, acting as a trusted advisor and driving client objectives.
• Act as an executive customer-facing leader driving application security engagements for our enterprise clients.
• Utilize broad application security expertise to separately own, scope, and lead complex customer-facing engagements as a Principal Application Security Consultant, trusted project owner, and industry specialist.
• Direct cross-functional teams to architect and drive scalable, measurable security risk reduction across application and cloud environments, leveraging investigative systems thinking and advanced security telemetry data for enterprise-level decision-making.
• Influence and secure alignment with director and C-suite level stakeholders regarding macro risk priorities, security infrastructure transformations, and systemic technical debt reduction, driving change management initiatives and secure-by-design orchestration.
• Oversee secure code reviews, mentor junior team members on mitigating complex or ambiguous vulnerabilities, and review project deliverables, leveraging advanced knowledge of modern development languages (e.g., Python, Java) while designing long-term product strategy to optimize organizational AppSec and DevSecOps maturity.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Cybersecurity, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience with application information security, infrastructure, software, or platforms within cloud services.
• 8 years of experience with cybersecurity risk management, threat identification, or security solution development.
• Ability to travel up to 30% of the time.

Preferred qualifications

• Certifications related to specific cloud platforms.
• 4 years of experience Application development, leading application/software projects and customer relationships while working cross-functionally in a large organization.
• Experience implementing industry-leading practices around cyber risks and cloud security for clients’ cloud security frameworks using industry standards.
• Experience with cloud governance, with the ability to convey governance principles to cloud computing in terms of policies.
• Excellent time and project management skills.

Benefits

Google offers a competitive compensation package, including individual pay determined by factors such as job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. US: $168,000 - $244,000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits. For more details, see the Benefits section on the Google Careers website.

Pay

US: $168,000 - $244,000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits

Schedule

Full-time