Senior/Principal Consultant
Mandiant seeks Senior and Principal Consultants with strong technical and consulting skills, project management capability, and sound written and verbal communication skills. Consultants will be responsible for working within one or more of the following service lines: Incident Response, Litigation Support, Proactive Security Assessment, and Education on projects for clients with US and international operations. The candidates must have the ability to communicate with clients; manage project timelines; follow methodologies; and create/present clear, concise deliverables.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Participate in security incident response investigations that involve computer crimes and require log, forensic and malware analysis
- Support litigation support efforts by acquiring, minimizing, searching and producing electronic evidence for legal counsel as well as serving as an expert witness as needed
- Conduct application testing, source code reviews, threat analysis, network penetration, wireless network assessments and social engineering
- Develop curriculum and conduct training courses in network and application security; malware analysis and incident response
- Serve as subject matter expert in one or more of the following: forensics, malware analysis, proactive services, incident response, litigation support, or remediation
- May be called upon to manage projects and staff, and mentor less experienced staff
Required Skills
- Ability to successfully interface with clients (internal and external)
- Ability to document and explain technical details in a concise, understandable manner
- Ability to provide training and perform public speaking and be comfortable in front of an audience
- Capable of managing own and team project tasks
Required Technical Skills
At least four of the following:
- Strong knowledge of tools used for application testing and network security
- Capable of Perl scripting and shell code scripting to automate common tasks
- Thorough understanding of network protocols
- Mastery of Unix and Windows operating systems
- Forensics analysis experience or aptitude
- Malware analysis experience or aptitude
- Experience developing applications in C#.NET or Java (J2EE)
Education and Other Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in a technical field
- Minimum 2 - 5 years of comparable experience; minimum 8 years of experience if no degree
- Must be able to travel frequently and on short notice
- Must be eligible to work indefinitely in the U.S.
Location
- Alexandria, VA
- New York, NY
- Los Angeles, CA
- San Francisco, CA
*Mandiant does not sponsor employment-based visas.
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