
Senior Incident Response Security Consultant, Mandiant, Google Cloud
In-office locations: New York, NY · FlexibleJob$138–200K/yrSeen 2w agoSeen in employer's feed 6 days ago
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The Senior Incident Response Security Consultant helps clients prepare for, mitigate, detect, and respond to cybersecurity threats. The role supports complex incident engagements through forensic analysis, threat hunting, malware triage, and incident containment and remediation. Consultants may test client networks, applications, and devices, and present findings to business stakeholders, executives, and technical teams. The position offers in-office locations in New York and remote locations in listed states.
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In-office locations: New York, NY, USA.
Remote location(s): Connecticut, USA; District of Columbia, USA; Delaware, USA; Florida, USA; Georgia, USA; Massachusetts, USA; Maryland, USA; Maine, USA; North Carolina, USA; New Hampshire, USA; New Jersey, USA; New York, USA; Rhode Island, USA; South Carolina, USA; Virginia, USA; Vermont, USA.
Minimum qualifications:
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Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Cybersecurity, related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
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5 years of experience working in end-to-end incident response investigations, analysis, or containment actions.
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5 years of investigative experience with network forensics and log analysis, malware triage analysis, and disk and memory forensics in one or more operating systems (e.g., Linux, Unix, etc.).
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Ability to travel up to 30% of the time.
Preferred qualifications:
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Certifications in cloud platforms.
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Experience in security competitions, Capture the Flags (CTFs) or testing platforms such as Hack the Box, TryHackMe, Overthewire, etc.
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Ability to communicate investigative findings and strategies to technical staff, executive leadership, legal counsel, and internal and external clients.
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Excellent time and project management 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 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.
Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.
US: $138000 - $200000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits
Learn more aboutbenefits at Google (https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/benefits/) .
Responsibilities
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Collaborate with internal and customer teams to investigate and contain incidents.
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Recognize and codify attacker Tools, Tactics, and Procedures (TTPs) and Indicators of Compromise (IOCs) that can be applied to current and future investigations.
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Conduct host forensics, network forensics, log analysis, and malware triage in support of incident response investigations.
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How this job compares
Set against the 659 open Incident Response jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 27, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$138–200K/yr
- New York median$105–194K/yr27 salary ranges
- US median$100–187K/yr540 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $169K, is 8% above the New York median midpoint ($157K) — in the middle half of Incident Response salary ranges in New York.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 33 open Incident Response jobs in New York and 659 across the US. 10% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in New York
- EY5 open
- PwC IT Services Co.3 open
- Accenture2 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 5 years of experience; Incident Response postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (612 postings).
- Education
- 304 of the 659 open Incident Response jobs (46%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 27, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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