Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 7 years of experience in an investigative role involved in the production of threat intelligence for decision-makers or customers and involved in direct customer support.
- Experience in an operational role involved in the research and writing of threat intelligence products for decision-makers or customers.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience in program management or business.
- Experience in using tools for analysis such as intrusion operations, enterprise security controls, log analysis, network flow and traffic analysis, incident response processes, cyber attack life-cycles and models.
- Experience working in a government environment and with host and network forensic reports of electronic media, packet capture, log data analysis, malware triage and network.
- Experience with malware/security, Google products, and working in an investigative or incident response environment.
- Knowledge of cyber security concepts, common enterprise IT infrastructure components, operating system internals and networking.
About the job
As a Security Consultant, you will be responsible for helping clients effectively prepare for, proactively mitigate, and detect and respond to cyber security threats. Security Consultants have an understanding of computer science, operating system functionality and networking, cloud services, corporate network environments and how to apply this knowledge to cyber security threats.
As a Security Consultant, you could work on engagements including assisting clients in navigating technically complex and high-profile incidents, performing forensic analysis, threat hunting, and malware triage. You may also test client networks, applications and devices by emulating the latest techniques to help them defend against threats, and will be the technical advocate for information security requirements and provide an in-depth understanding of the information security domain. You will also articulate and present complex concepts to business stakeholders, executive leadership, and technical contributors and successfully lead complex engagements alongside cross functional teams.
Mandiant Services provides incident response, assessment, transformation, managed detection and response, and training services with direct tactical support.
In this role, you will ensure the delivery of intelligence to each customer’s security or operational environments in order to drive decision making and selective action. You will also act as a conduit to Mandiant’s extensive network of cyber security, threat intelligence, and information operations professionals.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.
Responsibilities
- Evaluate current and emerging tools, best practices, and techniques for tracking advanced continuous threats, as well as the Tools, Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs) related to attackers' motivations, industry trends, and attacker behavior.
- Perform tactical, and operational research and analysis of adversarial cyber threats.
- Correlate intelligence to develop an understanding of tracked threat activity.
- Present tactical intelligence about threat groups, the methodologies they use, and the motivations behind their activity.
- Prepare and deliver briefings and reports to the client’s executives, security team, or analysts.