Senior Forward Deployed Detection and Response Consultant, Cyber Defence, National Security, Mandiant

Job summary

You will embed with national security clients to provide incident response, threat hunting, and forensic analysis services. Additionally, you will design and build agentic AI solutions to automate detection, response, and remediation workflows.

Job details

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS: * Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Cybersecurity, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience. * 5 years of experience in SOC analyst, malware research, threat hunting, or similar roles, working with EDR and SIEM technologies. * Experience leading incident response activities. * Candidates must hold or be eligible to obtain a valid Personnel Security Clearance as a condition of employment. PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS: * Certifications in cloud platforms. * Demonstrable experience building and deploying agentic AI workflows to support detection, response, and remediation. * 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. * Ability to communicate in English and French fluently, to work with internal partners and customer teams. * Excellent time and project management skills. ABOUT THE JOB: As a Senior Forward Deployed Detection and Response Consultant, Cyber Defence within Mandiant's National Security team, you will embed with clients in Canada's national security and defence sector and directly contribute to building a secure and resilient Canada. You will provide industry-leading security operations, 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 mission 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, developing agentic solutions, 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. Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Canada: $166000 - $170000 (CAD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits Learn more about benefits at Google [https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/benefits/]. RESPONSIBILITIES: * Collaborate with internal and customer teams to detect, respond to, and contain cyber security incidents. * Design and build agentic AI solutions to support autonomous detection, response, and remediation. * Recognize and codify attacker Tools, Tactics, and Procedures (TTPs) and Indicators of Compromise (IOCs) that can be applied to current and future investigations. * Lead and contribute to complex client-facing investigations and examine cloud, endpoint, and network-based sources of evidence. * Develop and present comprehensive and accurate reports and presentations for both technical and executive audiences.

What you’ll do

You will embed with national security clients to provide incident response, threat hunting, and forensic analysis services. Additionally, you will design and build agentic AI solutions to automate detection, response, and remediation workflows.

Requirements

Candidates must have a bachelor's degree in a technical field and at least 5 years of experience in SOC analysis, malware research, or incident response. A valid Personnel Security Clearance is a mandatory condition of employment.

Benefits

• Bonus target
• Equity
• Health benefits

Listed skills

• crisis management · Preferred
• Project management · Preferred

Other relevant skills

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• Incident response
• Cybersecurity
• Threat hunting
• Malware research
• EDR
• SIEM
• Agentic AI
• Forensic analysis
• Cloud security
• Crisis management
• Project management
• Technical communication
• TTP analysis
• IOC identification
• Network security
• Endpoint security
• Cyber Defense
• Endpoint Detection And Response
• Cyber Threat Intelligence
• Workflow Management
• Malware Analysis
• Resilience
• Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• Bilingual (French/English)
• Cyber Threat Hunting
• Research
• Communication
• Computer Science
• Information Systems
• Crisis Management
• Cyber Security
• Digital Forensics
• Incident Response
• Leadership
• Project Management
• Presentations
• Security Information And Event Management (SIEM)
• Security Clearance
• Investigation

Job areas

• Security & Safety
• Technology
• Software
• Consulting
• Government & Public Sector
• Forward Deployed Engineer
• Incident Analyst / Responder
• Database and Network Professionals Not Elsewhere Classified
• Information Security Analysts

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