Minimum qualifications:
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Cybersecurity, or equivalent practical experience.
4 years of experience assessing and developing cybersecurity solutions and programs across multiple security domains.
2 years of experience delivering cyber outcomes, identifying mission risks, devising solutions to combat public sector focused threats.
Ability to travel up to 40% of the time.
Preferred qualifications: Certifications related to specific Cloud Platforms.
Experience implementing industry-leading practices around cyber risks and Cloud security for clients' cloud security frameworks using industry standards.
Experience with cloud governance, with the ability to convey governance principles to cloud computing in terms of policies.
Ability to document and explain details to the clients as a trusted advisor and manage expectations.
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.
In this role, you will assist clients in navigating technically complex and high-profile incidents, performing forensic analysis, threat hunting, and malware triage. You'll 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 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. Mandiant is now part of Google Cloud.
Responsibilities
Develop roadmaps and recommendations to drive client enhancements of their cloud security architecture, governance, and standards. Identify, incorporate, and articulate cloud security best practices such as DevSecOps strategy, Zero Trust design, and cloud incident response. Perform security configuration assessments of a client's cloud platforms. Perform security configuration reviews for common cloud-based SaaS platforms. Interface with clients to address concerns, issues, or escalations, track and drive to closure any issues that impact the service and its value to clients.