Google

Senior Forward Deployed Incident Response Consultant

This posting has since been taken down. We keep it because a closed requisition still proves Google created and funded this role — it is not a sign the company stopped hiring for it.

Employer: Google
Location: Ottawa, ON, Canada
Seniority: Senior
Experience asked for: 5+ years
Pay band: $166K – $171K
Team: IC Engineer

When we saw it

First seen 2026-06-06 — the first scan of ours that found it
Last seen open 2026-07-01
Gone by 2026-07-27 — the first scan that no longer found it
Archived 2026-07-01 — when we saved this copy

Found via Google Careers.

From the posting

The National Security Solutions team supports and augments Canada’s most critical cyber missions. We enable federal defence, intelligence, cybersecurity, and public safety departments and agencies with Google technologies and Mandiant intelligence and services. As a Senior Forward Deployed Incident Response Consultant 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 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. …

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