Lead Consultant - Incident Response CPX

CPX; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

CPX is seeking a Lead Incident Responder to join the Incident Response & Forensics Team in Abu Dhabi. You will lead active IR engagements, coordinate with clients, and drive threat hunting and forensics across Windows, Linux, and Mac environments.

You will craft detailed reports, mentor juniors, and help shape improvement initiatives while maintaining strong stakeholder communication and lab oversight.

Qualifications

• Must have previous digital forensics experience.
• Experience with malware analysis is desirable.
• GIAC certs in GNFA, GCIH, GCIA, GCFE, GCFA or GDAT preferred.
• Excellent English communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering desirable but not mandatory.

Responsibilities

• Lead active incident response engagements as technical and coordination lead.
• Coordinate with clients and staff and report progress to stakeholders.
• Execute threat hunting in IR engagements and SOC activities.
• Perform host and network forensics on Windows, Linux and Mac platforms.
• Produce detailed reports and briefs, and perform QA on team outputs.
• Contribute to process documentation and service improvements.
• Lead internal knowledge sessions and research for improvements.
• Maintain the DFIR Lab and be SME on two verticals.

Skills

Blue team operations

Threat hunting

Windows

Linux

MacOS

Forensics

Malware analysis

ATT&CK

Network analysis

Communication

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Equivalents (eLearnSecurity)

Tools

Bro/Zeek

Rita

Suricata

Job description

Job Description:

Overview

As a Lead Incident Responder in the Incident Response & Forensics Team within a high-impact and operationally critical cyber defence environment, you live and breathe blue team operations. Your technical expertise in digital forensics and cyber incident response is well complemented by your integrity and passion for cyber security and technology in general.

You work well in a team of highly motivated and skilled blue teamers, but you can also achieve your work independently in different engagements and scenarios.

You enjoy taking on new challenges in a fast paced and dynamic working environment. You are a team player who is always willing to help out where required, with a humble and positive attitude.

Responsibilities

• Serve as technical & coordination lead on active incident response engagements
• English communication skills and stakeholder management skills are a MUST, to coordinate technical staff and communicate investigation progress to clients
• Execute and coordinate threat hunting activities in support of incident response engagements and SOC activities
• Perform host and/or network-based forensics across Windows, Mac, and Linux platforms.
• Execute digital forensic investigations supporting cyber incident response engagements
• Contribute to process documentation and continuous service improvement activities
• Lead the production of detailed reports and technical briefs, effectively communicate tasks, methodology and guidance to customers
• Perform Quality Assurance activities over reports created by more junior members of the team
• Explain technical findings in a manner that can be easily understood by technical and non-technical staff
• Demonstrate industry thought leadership through creating and developing internal brown-bag sessions
• Lead team research activities in search of service improvement tasks
• Help maintain the client-fostered DFIR Forensics Lab
• Be the team’s subject matter expert on at least two of the following verticals: host forensics, network forensics, mobile forensics, malware analysis, OT/ICS Incident Response, cloud forensics, threat hunting
• Ability to achieve tasks independently within the team after initial 2 months. Flexible schedule that is open to changing situations and opportunities, as is typical with incident response. You must be a team player, with a humble and approachable nature who is willing to go the extra mile.

Technical Skills : -

• Strong understanding of blue team operations and threat hunting
• Sound understanding of network protocols, TCP/IP etc. Sound understanding of Microsoft Windows
• Sound understanding of Linux and OSX
• Sound forensic skills across multiple operating systems
• Strong understanding of network analysis tools like Bro/Zeek, Rita or Suricata
• Ability to perform analysis of system and network devices logs
• Sound understanding of the capabilities of static and dynamic malware analysis
• Sound understanding of enterprise systems, technologies, and infrastructure
• Strong understanding of targeted attacks and able to create customized tactical and strategic remediation plans for compromised organizations
• Strong understanding of current threats, vulnerabilities, and attack trends
• Strong understanding of ATT&CK framework
• Sound understanding of AI security processes & ability to use AI properly within IR investigations
• Excellent organisational skills, ability to prioritise, and ability to work independently

Qualifications

• Certifications/Qualifications/Skills : -
• Good attention to detail and reporting accuracy, excellent stakeholder management & communication skills; excellent English language skills, both spoken and written
• GIAC Certified in a minimum of one discipline (two desired): GNFA, GCIH, GCIA, GCFE, GCFA, GDAT, etc
• Or equivalent (eLearnSecurity .etc)
• Previous experience performing digital forensics is A MUST
• Previous experience performing malware analysis is desirable
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering desirable, but not mandatory

Requirements: