Senior Red Team Security Consultant, Mandiant, Google Cloud

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Cybersecurity, a 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.
• 3 years of experience with techniques and tools used for wireless, web application, and network security testing.
• Experience delivering offensive security testing engagements.

Preferred qualifications:

• Certifications related to offensive security including OSCE, OSEP, OSEE, OSCP, CCSAS, CCT, INF, or relevant SANS courses.
• Experience in four or more of the following: network protocols, threat intelligence analysis, system and network administration, project management, developing applications, technical incident response processes, source code review, reverse developing.
• Experience implementing or assessing information security implementation or assessment of security controls.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and relationship management skills.

About the job

The Mandiant Team delivers bespoke high value assessments, including adversarial emulation engagements and application security testing. This may involve delivering a Threat Intelligence led Red Team for a large enterprise, preparing command and control infrastructure, developing social engineering, attempting to compromise internet-facing systems, conducting privilege escalation and lateral movement within customer networks, exfiltrating data from the network, while avoiding detection from the customer security operations teams, assessing high value web application against modern threats, or advising the client on best practices regarding cyber defense mechanisms.

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.

Part of Google Cloud, Mandiant is a recognized leader in dynamic cyber defense, threat intelligence and incident response services. Mandiant't 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

• 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. T ake an active role in web, cloud and mobile application testing.
• Conduct high quality external/internal network assessments.
• Develop comprehensive and accurate reports and presentations for both technical and executive audiences. Recognize and safely utilize attacker tools, tactics, and procedures.
• Recognize and safely utilize attacker tactics, techniques, and procedures. Communicate findings and strategy to client stakeholders including technical staff, executive leadership, and legal counsel.
• Travel up to 20% of the time as needed.