SENIOR INCIDENT RESPONSE CONSULTANT, MANDIANT AT GOOGLE NIGERIA | CONSULTANT JOBS IN LAGOS

About Company:

Google is not a conventional company, and we don't intend to become one. True, we share attributes with the world's most successful organizations - a focus on innovation and smart business practices comes to mind - but even as we continue to grow, we're committed to retaining a small-company feel. At Google, we know that every employee has something important to say, and that every employee is integral to our success. We provide individually-tailored compensation packages that can be comprised of competitive salary, bonus, and equity components, along with the opportunity to earn further financial bonuses and rewards.

Job Description:

• 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.

Key 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.

Requirements:

• 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.

Salary

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