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Incident Response Security Consultant, Mandiant, Google Cloud (English)

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The application window will be open until at least December 11, 2025. This opportunity will remain online based on business needs which may be before or after the specified date.

Google's hybrid workplace includes remote roles. By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Remote locations: Kansas, USA; United States.

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 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. 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. Mandiant's cybersecurity expertise has earned the trust of security professionals and company executives around the world. Our unique combination of renowned frontline experience responding to some of the most complex breaches, nation‑state grade threat intelligence, machine intelligence, and the industry's best security validation ensures that Mandiant knows more about today's advanced threats than anyone.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Cybersecurity, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 3 years of investigative experience with network forensics, malware triage analysis, cloud forensics, or disk and memory forensics.
• 3 years of experience working in end‑to‑end incident response investigations, analysis, or containment actions.
• Ability to travel up to 30% of the time as required.
• Ability to communicate in English fluently to work with internal partners and customer teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in cloud incident response or forensics.
• Experience in security competitions, Capture the Flags (CTFs) or testing platforms such as hack the box, tryhackme, overthewire, etc.
• Ability to communicate investigative findings and strategies to technical staff, executive leadership, legal counsel, and internal and external clients.
• Excellent time and project management skills.

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.
• Participate in large, client‑facing incident response engagements, examine cloud, endpoint, and network‑based sources of evidence, and investigate and contain incidents.
• Build scripts, tools, or methodologies to enhance Mandiant's incident investigation processes and capabilities.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form.