Incident Response Security Consultant, Mandiant Consulting, Google Cloud
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In-office locations: Auckland, New Zealand.
Remote location(s): New Zealand.
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Cybersecurity, related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 3 years of experience working end-to-end incident response investigations, analysis, or containment actions.
- 3 years of investigative experience with network forensics, malware triage analysis, cloud forensics, or disk and memory forensics.
- Ability to obtain Secret level security clearance under the New Zealand national security clearance process.
- Ability to communicate in English fluently to work with internal partners and customer teams.
- Ability to travel up to 20% as needed.
Preferred qualifications:
- Certifications in cloud platforms.
- Experience in cloud incident response or cloud forensics.
- Experience in security competitions, Capture the Flags (CTFs) or testing platforms such as Hack the Box, TryHackMe, Overthewire, etc.
- Familiarity with enterprise security architecture and security controls.
- Excellent time and project management skills.
- Ability to communicate investigative findings and strategies to technical staff, executive leadership, legal counsel, and internal and external clients.
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.
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.
- Support specific work streams for a variety of client-facing investigations including the examination of cloud, endpoint, and network-based sources of evidence
- Develop comprehensive and accurate reports and presentations for technical and non-technical audiences.
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