Senior Incident Response Consultant, Public Sector
Listed on 2026-06-03
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IT/Tech
Cybersecurity
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 5 years of experience with security assessments or security design reviews or threat modeling.
- 5 years of experience with security engineering, computer and network security and security protocols.
- 5 years of coding experience in one or more general purpose languages.
- Experience in implementation and design of enterprise security architecture, security controls, and best practices.
- Experience in cloud incident response and digital forensics.
- Ability to lead clients in strategic conversations with an executive presence.
- Ability to travel up to 20% of the time.
- Excellent time management skills to balance time among multiple tasks and mentor staff as needed.
Our Security team works to create and maintain the safest operating environment for Google's users and developers. Security Engineers work with network equipment and actively monitor our systems for attacks and intrusions. In this role, you will also work with software engineers to proactively identify and fix security flaws and vulnerabilities.
As part of the Incident Response team, you will drive cybersecurity resilience across the public sector, delivering proactive defensive transformations and rapidly deploying incident response to contain breaches.
The US base salary range for this full-time position is $174,000-$252,000 + bonus + equity + benefits.
Responsibilities- Identify security issues and implement and design security controls, tools, and services to improve security systems and processes.
- Conduct host forensics, network forensics, log analysis, and malware triage in support of incident response investigations.
- Recognize and codify attacker tools, tactics, and procedures (TTPs) and indicators of compromise (IOCs) that can be applied to current and future investigations.
- Collaborate with internal and customer teams to investigate and contain incidents.
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