Incident Response Consultant

1 Month ago • 6 Years + • Cyber Security • $108,000 PA - $155,000 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

As an Incident Response Consultant at Mandiant, you'll provide industry-leading services to help organizations effectively detect and respond to cyber threats. Responsibilities include investigating and containing incidents, identifying attacker TTPs and IOCs, developing tools and methodologies to enhance investigation processes, creating comprehensive reports and presentations, and utilizing Mandiant technology for large-scale investigations. You'll collaborate with internal and customer teams, work on technically complex incidents, perform forensic analysis, threat hunting, and malware triage. You will also present findings to technical and executive audiences. The role requires strong investigative experience with network forensics, log analysis, malware triage, and disk/memory forensics across multiple operating systems.
Must have:
  • Bachelor's degree in related field or equivalent experience
  • 4+ years investigative experience (network forensics, log analysis, malware triage)
  • 2+ years incident response experience
  • Excellent communication (written and verbal)
  • Incident investigation and containment
  • Develop reports and presentations
Good to have:
  • Cloud platform certifications (e.g., GCP)
  • Cloud incident response/forensics experience
  • Ability to travel up to 20%
  • Experience communicating with executive leadership and legal counsel
Perks:
  • Bonus
  • Equity
  • Benefits

Job Details


Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Cyber-security, related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 4 years of Investigative experience with network forensics and log analysis, malware triage analysis, disk and memory forensics in one or more of the following: macOS, Linux, or Unix.
  • 2 years of experience working on incident response investigations, analysis, or containment actions.
  • Ability to travel up to 20% of the time as required.

Preferred qualifications:

  • Certifications in Cloud Platforms (e.g., Google Cloud Platform (GCP)).
  • 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 in a concise manner.
  • Excellent time and project management skills.

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.

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.Part of Google Cloud, Mandiant is a recognized leader in dynamic cyber defense, threat intelligence and incident response services. Mandiant's cyber-security 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.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $108,000-$155,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about .

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). Build scripts, tools, or methodologies to enhance Mandiant’s incident investigation processes that can be applied to current and future investigations.
  • Develop and present comprehensive and accurate reports, trainings, and presentations for technical and executive audiences.
  • Utilize Mandiant technology to conduct large-scale investigations and examine endpoint and network-based sources of evidence.

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