Senior Cloud Incident Response Consultant

S-RM; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday per year

Pension contribution up to 7%

Private medical insurance

Job summary

S-RM is seeking a Senior Cloud Incident Response Consultant in London to lead client-facing investigations across AWS, Azure and GCP. You will guide incident response engagements, analyze cloud identities, logs and telemetry, and coordinate remediation with cross-functional teams.

The role requires deep cloud expertise, strong communication, and the ability to operate in high-pressure situations. Flexible and hybrid working options are available in the UK.

Qualifications

• 5+ years' experience in a technical cloud security, cloud engineering, DevSecOps, platform engineering or security operations role, with hands-on experience of at least one major cloud platform.
• Direct experience in a consulting or in-house incident response team is beneficial, but not essential.
• Hands-on experience with AWS, Azure or GCP, including identity and access management, logging and audit trails, and cloud-native security tooling.
• Experience with CI/CD platforms and Infrastructure-as-Code.

Responsibilities

• Leading technical incident response engagements from first contact through to closure.
• Acting as the primary technical resource on response cases, guiding colleagues on the project team.
• Leading cloud-based investigations across AWS, Azure and GCP, including compromised cloud identities, access keys, APIs and control planes.
• Cloud log, audit trail and telemetry analysis (CloudTrail, Entra ID, Azure Activity Logs, GCP Cloud Audit Logs).
• Overseeing host- and network-based investigations, containment, and remediation support.

Skills

Cloud security

Incident response

Cloud providers

Automation scripting

Communication

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

GitHub Actions

Terraform

Kubernetes

Job description

Senior Cloud Incident Response Consultant

London

WHO WE ARE

S-RM is a global intelligence and cyber security consultancy. Since 2005, we’ve helped some of the most demanding clients in the world solve some of their toughest information security challenges.

We’ve been able to do this because of our outstanding people. We’re committed to developing sharp, curious, driven individuals who want to think critically, solve complex problems, and achieve success.

But we also know that work isn’t everything. It’s about the lives and careers it helps us build. We’re immensely proud of this culture and we invest in our people’s wellbeing, learning, and ideas every day.

We’re excited you’re thinking about joining us.

WORKING IN CYBER AT S-RM

Our Cyber Security division is the fastest-growing part of S-RM. Demand for our Advisory, Ethical Hacking and Incident Response practices has never been higher, and the threat landscape keeps changing.

We are building a team to keep pace, one that responds quickly, innovates and keeps improving. We also don’t believe there is a typical cyber security professional. Our people include intelligence analysts, technical specialists, software developers, investigators and risk managers, so you will always be working alongside different perspectives and expertise that help you learn and grow.

If that sounds like your kind of team, we would like to hear from you.

THE ROLE

Our Incident Response Consultants are central to the success of our Cyber Security consulting practice. As a Technical Lead, you will bring deep cloud expertise to a senior, client-facing delivery role, leading the response to incidents in cloud environments.

You will work across the full lifecycle of security incidents to help clients respond and recover. That includes incidents affecting cloud platforms, identity systems, CI/CD pipelines and software delivery environments, alongside traditional scenarios such as ransomware, business email compromise and intrusion investigations.

Our Incident Response Associates are a critical part of our Cyber Security division’s success.

You will lead and deliver technical investigations for clients, including:

• Leading technical incident response engagements from first contact through to closure
• Acting as the primary technical resource on response cases, applying your own expertise and guiding colleagues on the project team
• Leading cloud-based investigations across AWS, Azure and GCP, including:
• Compromised cloud identities, access keys, APIs and control planes
• Cloud log, audit trail and telemetry analysis (CloudTrail, Entra ID, Azure Activity Logs, GCP Cloud Audit Logs and similar)
• Abuse of CI/CD pipelines, source code repositories, secrets and software supply chains
• Infrastructure-as-Code and automated deployment workflows
• Containers and Kubernetes environments
• Overseeing host- and network-based investigations, including triage and containment, system recovery and remediation support, evidence collection and forensic analysis, and malware and root cause analysis
• Investigating a wide range of incident types, including:
• Cloud account and tenant compromise
• Unauthorised access and data breaches in cloud environments
• Ransomware and extortion incidents
• Software supply chain and pipeline compromise
• Developing and sharing domain expertise. We will support you to deepen your technical knowledge and share it across the wider team through internal initiatives, training and capability development
• Participating in an on-call rotation, providing 24x7x365 incident response coverage for our clients

Other features of the role include:

• Variety of casework: no day will be the same. Our team responds to a huge variety of incidents for both public and corporate clients.
• Range of opportunities: you will have opportunities to broaden your security awareness into testing and advisory projects, in addition to deepening your incident response expertise.
• Flexible working practices: responding to incidents can be intense, high‑pressure work. We are mindful of our team’s work/life balance and offer flexible working options to support your wellbeing.

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

Candidates with the following qualifications and experience are likely to succeed as Incident Response Associates at S-RM.

That said, if you don’t think you meet all of the criteria below but still are interested in the job, please apply. Nobody checks every box—we’re looking for candidates that are particularly strong in a few areas and have some interest and capabilities in others.

We nurture a culture of equality, diversity and inclusion and we are dedicated to developing a workforce that displays a variety of talents, experiences and perspectives.

Experience

• 5+ years' experience in a technical cloud security, cloud engineering, DevSecOps, platform engineering or security operations role, with hands‑on experience of at least one major cloud platform
• Direct experience in a consulting or in-house incident response team is beneficial, but not essential

Cloud and technical skillset

• Hands‑on experience with AWS, Azure or GCP, including identity and access management, logging and audit trails, and cloud-native security tooling
• Experience with CI/CD platforms (such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI or Azure DevOps), Infrastructure-as-Code and automation
• Strong technical foundations for investigating a range of incident types, including ransomware and intrusion scenarios
• Comfortable using scripting and automation (such as Python, PowerShell or Bash) to support investigations and analysis
• Experience with containers and Kubernetes is advantageous

Approach

• A strong investigative mindset, with the ability to work through complex problems using limited or incomplete information
• Comfortable operating in high‑pressure, time‑critical client situations
• Demonstrable knowledge of cyber threat actors and their tactics, techniques and procedures, particularly those targeting cloud identities, SaaS platforms and cloud-based infrastructure

Communication

• Able to communicate technical findings and risk clearly to non-technical client audiences in a professional consulting setting

Qualifications

Certifications are not required, but cloud and platform certifications are particularly valued, such as AWS, Azure or GCP security and architecture certifications, Kubernetes (CKA/CKS) and Terraform. The following (or similar) are also beneficial: GCFE, GCFA, GCLD, GCIH, EnCE, CFSR, CISSP, GREM, OSCP and Security+.

The successful candidate must have permission to work in the UK by the start of their employment.

OUR BENEFITS

We offer thoughtful, balanced rewards and support to help our people do their best work and live their lives outside it, including:

• 25 days holiday per year in addition to bank holidays (+1 day for every year of service up to a maximum of 30 days).
• Matching pension contribution up to 7% (up to a maximum of 14% combined), and financial education
• Life Insurance 4X Annual salary
• Parental Support:
  • Fertility treatment leave – 5 days of leave per cycle of treatment per year;
  • Maternity leave – 26 weeks of full pay followed by 13 weeks of half pay;
  • Paternity leave – 6 weeks of full pay.
• Various Health and Medical Benefits including:
  • Private dental and medical insurance (taxable benefit);
  • Virtual GP for you and your family members that live in the same household;
  • Gym discounts for you and your partner;
  • EAP programme for you and your immediate family;
  • Free access to the mindfulness app Headspace;

The successful candidate must have permission to work in the United Kingdom by the start of their employment.

THE APPLICATION PROCESS

We want to get to know you, and for you to get to know us, to see if we’d be a good fit. We are responsive and respectful of people’s time throughout our hiring process.

A typical application process includes:

• Initial screening of your application by our recruiting team.
• An interview to assess your baseline technical skills.
• An interview to discuss your previous experience and broader competencies.
• Final interview to determine alignment with the role.