Global Contract DFIR Incident Responder

Lever, Inc.; United Arab Emirates; On-site; AED 304,000 - 607,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible contract

Live IR investigations

Cloud forensics exposure

Experienced team

Flexible workload

Job summary

Lever, Inc. is listing an International Contract Bench for Incident Response based in United Arab Emirates. You will support high-impact digital investigations involving sophisticated cyber threats and real-world security incidents as part of an experienced IR team.

The contract-based role is designed for experienced investigators who want to stay hands-on without a full-time on-call schedule, with flexible hours to match active investigations and personal commitments.

Qualifications

• Experience as Incident Response consultant, SOC analyst, or related role.
• Strong forensics knowledge on Windows, macOS and Linux.
• Experience with cloud-native investigations across AWS, GCP, and Azure.
• Ability to work independently within an experienced IR team.

Responsibilities

• Perform incident response and digital forensic investigations involving active threat activity and security breaches.
• Analyze live response data and forensic artifacts to identify malicious activity, determine attack methods, and support investigations.
• Investigate Windows, macOS, and Linux environments using appropriate forensic techniques and tooling.
• Analyze business email compromise (BEC), account takeover, and other identity-related incidents.
• Conduct network analysis to identify suspicious activity, attacker behavior, and relevant indicators of compromise.
• Support investigations across cloud-native environments, including AWS, GCP, Azure, and SaaS applications.
• Apply threat intelligence and current knowledge of adversary techniques to investigative work.
• Contribute high-quality analysis to cases involving threats such as ransomware and nation-state activity.
• Share investigative perspectives, technical expertise, and feedback to strengthen IR practices.
• Take on incident-response assignments for several hours per week, according to availability.

Skills

Incident Response

Digital Forensics

Cloud Investigations

Network Analysis

Windows/macOS/Linux

Threat Intelligence

Job description

Lever, Inc. is listing an International Contract Bench for Incident Response based in United Arab Emirates. You will support high-impact digital investigations involving sophisticated cyber threats and real-world security incidents as part of an experienced IR team.

The contract-based role is designed for experienced investigators who want to stay hands-on without a full-time on-call schedule, with flexible hours to match active investigations and personal commitments.