Senior Incident Response Consultant
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An exciting opportunity for a senior Incident Response Consultant to work with a leading organisation delivering changes to national cyber defence capabilities. This includes cyber security capacity building, combing people, process and technology……focussed on Incident Response for this position.
As a Senior Incident Response consultant, you will be working with leading and innovative cyber security leaders who’s expertise ensure the best in class incident response solutions. You will be joining a team of passionate cyber professionals who are focussed on helping people.
Overview:
Cyber Nexus is seeking a Senior Incident Response Cyber Security Consultant with demonstrable experience in cyber Incident Response (IR) and security operations, capacity building and solutions focussed.
You will be working with a multidisciplinary team, working with sophisticated and complex environments.
Due to the needs of the projects, regular international travel should be expected. This could be in the range of 2-3 weeks every ¼ throughout the year.
You will play a key role in client projects but will also be required to support the digital forensics & incident response (DFIR) capability of the Security Operations Centre.
Responsibilities:
* Lead technical delivery across Incident Response related projects (including SOC development and wider Cyber Threat Operations initiatives).
* Lead the Incident Response discipline within a multi-disciplinary cyber security team. Ensuring continuous improvement to the programme.
* Regular liaison with key project stakeholders and other technical leads to ensure the overall solution is aligned to technical standards.
* Design and deliver training material to up-skill others in IR.
* Lead technical IR delivery for IR engagements, across a range of companies and organisations.
* Drive initiatives to improve overall Incident Response offerings, strengthen technical capabilities of the internal IR function as well as to clients.
* Mentor to other technical security consultants, supporting the team where required.
Essential Skills/Experience
* Leading the technical delivery of IR engagements on behalf of clients, (ideally within public sector), and detailed knowledge of associated tooling.
* Experience in broader cyber IR activities and engagements. Knowledge of cyber security concepts.
* Strong soft skills: able to influence, effectively communicate and manage stakeholder requirements.
* Delivering training and mentoring in Cyber Incident Response, adapting styles and approach for different cultures and learning styles.
* Experience of SOC’s and cyber analytical knowledge.
* Extensive knowledge of Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR), Security Information and Event Management (SIEM), and/or digital forensics and incident response tools/solutions.
Important: We are unfortunately unable to consider applicants who require sponsorship as the position requires you to be eligible to obtain and maintain a level of UK security clearance.