Senior Security Consultant, Incident Response, Mandiant

This role offers hybrid/remote flexibility. Preferred working locations: Cambridge, MA (in-office), New York, NY (in-office), or fully remote within the United States.

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 work non-standard hours, including weekends, night shifts, holidays, and shift-based schedules as required.

Preferred Qualifications

• Certifications in cloud platforms.
• Experience in Cloud incident response or forensics.
• Ability to communicate investigative findings and strategies to technical staff, executive leadership, legal counsel, and internal and external clients.
• Excellent written/verbal communication skills, with the ability to develop documentation and explain technical details concisely.
• Excellent time and project management skills.

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 resolve security incidents quickly, effectively, and at scale with complete incident response including investigation, containment, remediation, and crisis management.

You will work on engagements including assisting clients in navigating technically complex and high-profile incidents, performing forensic analysis, threat hunting, and malware triage. In this role, you will understand existing and emerging threat actors, identify rapidly changing tools, tactics, and procedures of attackers, and recognize evolving attacker behavior and motivations. You will participate in 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. Mandiant's cybersecurity expertise has earned the trust of security professionals and company executives worldwide. Our unique combination of frontline breach response experience, nation-state-grade threat intelligence, machine intelligence, and security validation ensures Mandiant knows more about today's advanced threats than anyone.

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) for current and future investigations.
• Provide technical leadership for internal and customer teams during incident response.
• Lead complex client-facing investigations and examine cloud, endpoint, and network-based sources of evidence.

Pay

US-based roles: $138,000 – $200,000 (USD) base salary, plus 15% bonus target, equity, and benefits.

Benefits

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