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Senior Incident Response Consultant, Public Sector

Virginia, United States (On-site)

Senior Incident Response Consultant, Public Sector

3 Weeks ago • 5-8 Years • Cyber Security • $130,000 PA - $193,000 PA

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Job Description

As a Senior Incident Response Consultant at Google/Mandiant, you'll provide top-tier incident response, assessment, and managed detection services. You'll help organizations effectively manage threats and reduce business risks. This involves resolving security incidents, performing forensic analysis, threat hunting, malware triage, and assisting clients in navigating complex incidents. You'll collaborate with internal and client teams, identify attacker TTPs and IOCs, and conduct forensic analyses (host, network, log, malware). You'll also investigate customer impacts and correlate data with Mandiant's intelligence repository. The role requires strong communication skills to explain technical details to diverse audiences, including executive leadership and legal counsel.

Must have:

Bachelor's degree in relevant field or experience
5+ years incident response experience
3+ years experience in network, cloud, or disk forensics
Experience with attacker methodologies (ransomware, zero-day exploits, etc.)
Excellent communication and documentation skills

Good to have:

Cloud platform certifications
Experience in security competitions (CTFs)
Ability to manage sensitive data

Perks:

Bonus
Equity
Benefits

Minimum qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Cybersecurity, related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
5 years of experience working in incident response investigations, analysis, or containment actions.
3 years of investigative experience with network forensics, cloud forensics, or disk and memory forensics.
Experience with attacker methodologies used to hunt for adversarial activity (e.g., Pre/Post Ransomware attack, Zero-day Exploitation, Business Email Compromise, Cloud Compromise, etc.).

Preferred qualifications:

Certifications in cloud platforms.
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.
Ability to document and explain technical details in a concise, understandable manner.
Ability to recognize and appropriately manage sensitive data.
Excellent time and project management skills.

About the job

As a Google/Mandiant Incident Response Consultant, you will provide industry-leading incident response, assessment, transformation, managed detection and response, and training services with 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.

brings the magic of Google to the mission of government and education with solutions purpose-built for enterprises. We focus on helping United States public sector institutions accelerate their digital transformations, and we continue to make significant investments and grow our team to meet the complex needs of local, state and federal government and educational institutions.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $130,000-$193,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target salaries for the position across all US locations. 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.

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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.
Investigate impact to customers to determine if new detection or compromise notifications are necessary.
Correlate data collected during hunt or incident response engagements against Mandiant’s intelligence repository.

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$130.0K - $193.0K/yr (Outscal est.)

$161.5K/yr avg.

Virginia, United States

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