Senior Cybersecurity Consultant, Government Services, Mandiant
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In-office locations: Lagos, Nigeria.
Remote location(s): Nigeria.
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Cybersecurity, related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 5 years of experience assessing and developing cybersecurity solutions across multiple security domains.
- 5 years of experience in a cybersecurity role analyzing or defending against sophisticated cyber threats, including Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs).
- Experience in Cybersecurity, specifically one of the following areas: Incident Response, Offensive Security Services, or Cyber Threat Intelligence.
- Experience using security frameworks, controls and technologies for common platforms and devices.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience in cyber operations obtained through previous roles supporting enterprise scale security operations, government or military clients`.
- Ability to document and explain technical details in a concise, understandable manner in order to inform client decision making, investigations and operations.
- Ability to discuss and advise on advanced cyber operations concepts.
- Ability to learn and utilise advanced tools for analytic purposes and generate high quality reporting for client consumption.
- Ability to travel internationally up to 50% of the time.
- Ability to obtain a national security clearance.
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.
In this role, you will work as a partner to global governments, multilateral organisations, and Critical National Infrastructure organisations across the EMEA region. You will with the clients to evaluate, create, develop, improve, and mature their cyber security operations and programmes, from the national level down. You will combine experience and knowledge gained from Mandiant Incident Response as we are able to develop leading cyber security programmes for our clients.
You will be a passionate and experienced individual with a cyber security background to help government clients design, build and run cyber security operations.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
- Build trusted partnerships with clients by establishing and maintaining relationships.
- Conduct security program assessments and develop roadmaps to enhance client security posture.
- Evaluate security operations and incident response team capabilities, provide improvement recommendations, develop customized documentation including Incident Response Plans and Playbooks, and and deliver intelligence-led tabletop exercises.
- Execute Mandiant's proprietary National Cyber Framework Assessment.
- Guide clients on incident preparation strategies such as ransomware defense and deliver threat briefings to executive and technical teams.
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