Senior Incident Response Consultant, Mandiant at Google Nigeria

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 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 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.

Responsibilities

• Lead small incident response investigations and workstreams that contribute to more investigations.
• Perform host, network, and log-based forensics.
• Develop customer reports on data from multiple sources, including forensic data, threat intelligence, network device, and other telemetry.
• Present technical material in a clear, organized briefing to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Maintain current knowledge of tools and best practices to respond to the tactics, techniques, and procedures for nation-state, financially motivated, or opportunistic threat actors.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Cybersecurity, related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience working end to end incident response investigations, analysis, or containment actions.
• 5 years of investigative experience with network forensics, malware triage analysis, cloud forensics, or disk and memory forensics.
• 5 years of experience in linux or unix.
• Experience coding in Python.
• Ability to travel up to 30%.

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.
• Excellent communication skills, with an ability to communicate findings and new initiatives to executive leaders.
• Excellent time management skills to balance time among multiple tasks and mentor junior consultants as needed.