Manager - Forensics - Incident Response & Awareness

Ernst & Young AE; Dubai; On-site; USD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A global leader in professional services seeks a Manager for its Resilience & Digital Trust team in Dubai. This position involves leading cybersecurity efforts, enhancing client readiness for incidents, and conducting forensic investigations. Ideal candidates will have significant experience, relevant certifications, and a strong understanding of industry regulations, ensuring robust leadership against evolving cyber threats.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 10 years experience in digital forensics and incident response.
• Certificates such as CISA, CISM, CISSP, ISO 27001 are a plus.
• Strong understanding of regulatory expectations (NCA, ISO, NIST).

Responsibilities

• Lead cyber incident response engagements and readiness assessments.
• Conduct digital forensic investigations and maintain forensic integrity.
• Prepare and present investigative reports to stakeholders.

Skills

Cyber incident response

Security awareness

Digital forensics

Threat detection

Risk management

Education

BSc in computer science or information technology or cybersecurity

Tools

Forensic tools

Job description

Bachelor of Business Administration(Management)

Nationality

Any Nationality

Vacancy

1 Vacancy

Job Description

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 of expectations of regulators and international organizations such as NCA, ISO, and NIST.

Ideally, you ll also have

• Threat intel

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