Red Teaming and Threat Emulation Consultant, Mandiant, Google Cloud
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Note: Google’s hybrid workplace includes remote roles.Remote location: Australia.
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Cybersecurity, related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 6 years of experience in red team penetration testing, offensive security, or other security-related field.
- Ability to travel up to 20% of the time as required.
- AGSVA TSNV1 or higher security clearance under the Australian Government Protective Security Policy Framework.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience with OWASP, Offensive Security and SANS training.
- Knowledge of tools used in engagement testing, security event analysis, incident response, computer forensics, network and endpoint architecture or other areas of security operations.
- Understanding of operating systems, including Windows, Linux, and OSX.
- Ability to develop documentation and explain technical details in a concise manner.
- Excellent written/verbal communication skills.
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.
As a Security Consultant, you could work on engagements including assisting clients in navigating technically complex and high-profile incidents, performing forensic analysis, threat hunting, and malware triage. You may 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.
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 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.
Responsibilities
- Perform offensive technical cyber security engagements to emulate real-world adversaries observed during Mandiant incident response investigations.
- Lead Mandiant offensive security consulting engagements from initial scoping through to engagement close-out.
- Collaborate with internal teams to expand capabilities to deliver further value to clients.
- Emulate a variety of Threat Actors in range scenarios in support of training engagements.
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