Manager - Forensics - Incident Response & Awareness

Iris Software; Dubai; On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Iris Software is seeking a Manager for their Resilience & Digital Trust team in Dubai. This role involves leading cybersecurity initiatives, overseeing incident responses, and conducting digital forensic investigations. With a focus on strategic advisory services, the manager will enhance clients' cybersecurity posture and compliance with regulatory standards while leading a talented team.

Benefits

Continuous learning opportunities

Transformative leadership coaching

Diverse and inclusive culture

Qualifications

• Minimum of 10 years of hands-on experience in digital forensics and incident response.
• Broad industry expertise with top tier firm experience.
• Strong understanding of expectations from international standards like NCA, ISO, and NIST.

Responsibilities

• Lead teams in cyber incident response and compliance readiness assessments.
• Conduct end-to-end digital forensic investigations for incident response.
• Oversee engagements at an executive level to improve cyber security posture.

Skills

Digital forensics

Incident response

Threat intel

Fluent Arabic

Fluent English

Education

Bsc. in Computer Science

Certificates such as CISA, CISM, CISSP, ISO 27001

Job description

Successful organizations depend on their reputation for keeping promises, respecting laws and behaving ethically to maintain stakeholder trust. EY Forensic & Integrity Services professionals help organizations protect and restore enterprise and financial reputation. We assist companies and their legal counsel to investigate facts, resolve disputes and manage regulatory challenges. We put integrity at the heart of compliance programs to help better manage ethical and reputational risks.

Embracing integrity means doing what you say you will do, with unerring commitment. This can make it easier to attract and retain talented people and harness their skills to grow your business. A foundation built on integrity is critical because today’s talent values purpose-driven organizations. It can also help you develop stronger partnerships with suppliers and work more effectively with employees, investors, regulators and influencers.Our integrated approach ranges from enhancements in areas of perceived weakness or issues — including governance, controls, culture and data insights — to full organizational design and structural implementation.

The opportunity

As a Manager, you’ll build valued relationships with external clients and internal peers and develop a portfolio of projects by focusing on high value opportunities. You’ll lead presentations and proposals for complex projects or elements of highly complex projects and provide subject matter insight to bids and proposals. Drawing on your skills and experience, you’ll create innovative commercial insights for clients, adapt methods and practices to fit operational team and cultural needs, and contribute to thought leadership.

Your key responsibilities

As a Manager in the Resilience & Digital Trust team, you will lead and grow a team responsible for strengthening clients’ cybersecurity posture through cyber incident response, security awareness, and digital forensics services. You will provide strategic advisory services in areas such as regulatory compliance, cybersecurity governance, threat detection, digital trust, and risk management.

Oversee client engagements at an executive level, working with senior stakeholders to assess and improve readiness for cyber incidents, respond to security breaches, and conduct digital forensic investigations. Your leadership will help organizations reduce risks, meet compliance requirements, and maintain resilience against evolving cyber threats.

Specifically, you will need to:

• Lead engagements related to cyber incident response, including readiness assessments, playbook development, tabletop exercises, and cyber crisis simulations.
• Evaluate existing security incident detection and escalation capabilities and recommend improvements.
• Conduct end-to-end digital forensic investigations in response to cyber incidents, data breaches, insider threats, or regulatory inquiries.
• Preserve chain-of-custody and maintain forensic integrity in accordance with legal and regulatory standards.
• Use forensic tools to extract, analyze, and correlate digital evidence, and prepare clear and defensible investigative reports and present forensic findings to legal, compliance, or executive stakeholders.

To qualify for the role, you must have

• Bsc. computer science or information technology or cyber security
• Certificates such as CISA, CISM, and CISSP, ISO 27001 is a plus
• Minimum of 10 years of hands-on experience in the digital forensics and incident response domain.
• Broad industry expertise and network, and with an establishes experience with a top tier firm
• Lead a team of professionals to combine diverse cross-border experience with local knowledge across a broad spectrum of industries
• Work effectively as a member of a worldwide network of professional advisors, sharing responsibility, providing support, maintaining communication, and updating senior team members on progress
• Strong understanding ofexpectations of regulators and international organizations such as NCA, ISO, and NIST.

Ideally, you’ll also have

• Digital forensics
• Threat intel
• Incident response
• Fluent Arabic/English communication skills
• Working experience in KSA
• Prior experience in consulting firm

What we look for

We are interested in entrepreneurs who have the confidence to develop and promote a brand-new strategic vision both internally and externally. You will be business savvy with a passion for innovation as well as the motivation to create your own EY journey.

What we offer

We offer a competitive compensation package where you’ll be rewarded based on performance and recognized for the value you bring to our business. Plus, we offer:

• Continuous learning:You’ll develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next.
• Success as defined by you:We’ll provide the tools and flexibility, so you can make a meaningful impact, your way.
• Transformative leadership:We’ll give you the insights, coaching and confidence to be the leader the world needs.
• Diverse and inclusive culture:You’ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.

If you can demonstrate that you meet the criteria above, please contact us as soon as possible.

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