Incident Response Leader - Cyber Recovery & Forensics

Cyber Security training courses; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

KPMG is seeking a Senior Manager for Cyber Response Services in its Risk Consulting practice. You will lead incident response case managers, perform advanced digital forensics, and shape incident response processes and playbooks for client engagements.

You will travel on short notice and mentor junior staff while developing in-house tools and delivery capability. A strong technical background and leadership potential are essential.

Qualifications

• Experience in incident response and digital forensics.
• Strong IT and network skills with enterprise tech knowledge.
• Programming skills to author and develop tools.

Responsibilities

• Manage and coordinate cyber security incidents with the head of cyber response.
• Digital forensics of relevant incident data (disk, memory, network packets, log files).
• Assess client incident response capability maturity.
• Develop in house cyber-response tools influence and improvements.
• Oversee engagement scoping, budgeting and risk management.
• Liaise with clients on delivery and project issues.
• Prepare bid responses and RFPs with structured, clear deliverables.

Skills

Incident response

Digital forensics

Leadership / team management

Communication skills

Programming in Python

Networking knowledge

Threat landscape understanding

Project management

Education

Degree in Information Security / IT

CISSP / CISM / CISA (preferred)

MSc in Information Security

Tools

X-Ways

EnCase

FTK

Internet Evidence Finder (IEF)

AXIOM

Cellebrite

Job description

KPMG is seeking a Senior Manager for Cyber Response Services in its Risk Consulting practice. You will lead incident response case managers, perform advanced digital forensics, and shape incident response processes and playbooks for client engagements.

You will travel on short notice and mentor junior staff while developing in-house tools and delivery capability. A strong technical background and leadership potential are essential.