Senior Red Team Security Consultant, Mandiant, Google Cloud

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Cybersecurity, related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience with pen testing and red teaming functions, including network, web application, mobile, cloud, social engineering, scripting, or tool development.
• Experience with tools used for wireless, web application, and network security testing.
  
• Ability to travel up to 30% of the time.

Preferred qualifications:

• Certifications related to offensive security including OSCE, OSEP, OSEE, OSCP, CCSAS, CCT, INF, or relevant SANS courses.
  
• Experience implementing or assessing information security implementation or assessment of security controls.
  
• Experience working with local sales and go-to-market teams in driving consulting business generation, scoping or client management.
• Experience creating security tools and understanding of underlying programming languages such as Python, C#, C/C++, Rust, Nim or similar tools.
• Excellent written/verbal communication skills, with the ability to develop documentation and explain technical details in a concise manner.
  

About the job

As a Mandiant Red Team Consulting team member, you will be responsible for assessing and advising clients on both technical and process-based controls for all manner of environments. You will perform and lead Red and Purple Team assessments, including adversarial emulation of cyber attacks against customer organizations, and other technical cyber assessments including external pen testing, web application, mobile, and wireless security testing. You will expand the team’s capabilities through tool creation, research on offensive techniques, incorporation of threat actor intelligence, internal presentations, and knowledge sharing. You will develop comprehensive and accurate reports and presentations for technical and executive audiences, act as a trusted advisor to C-level security leaders and other customer stakeholders, assist with scoping prospective engagements, lead teams for engagements from kickoff through remediation phase, and mentor staff while maintaining keen understanding and familiarity with offensive security, threat actors, and security best practices.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 and perform red and purple team assessments, assumed breach assessments (e.g., red team engagements with a pre-deployed implant), ransomware readiness reviews (e.g., assessing susceptibility to modern ransomware threats), threat analysis, and social engineering assessments.
• Conduct external and internal wireless assessments, web and mobile applications testing, and embedded system assessments.
• Recognize and safely utilize attacker tools, tactics, and procedures.
• Communicate findings and strategy to client stakeholders including technical staff, executive leadership, and legal counsel.
• Develop comprehensive and accurate reports and presentations for both technical and executive audiences.