Senior DFIR Consultant: Global Incident Response & Forensics

Control Risks; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working arrangements

Job summary

Control Risks is seeking an experienced Senior Consultant to join the London DFIR team, acting as technical lead for engagements and guiding forensic investigations and cyber incident response. You will work with the Cyber Response and Discovery & Data Insights teams across regions to deliver high‑impact solutions.

You will deploy to crises on short notice, craft evidential analyses and reports, and contribute to business development while maintaining client trust and project integrity.

Qualifications

• Extensive professional and technology experience in cyber risk consulting, forensic investigations or related fields.
• Proven knowledge and technical computer forensics experience for cyber incident response.
• Thorough understanding of best practice procedures (NPCC, NIST, SANS) and evidence handling.

Responsibilities

• Provide forensic/incident response consultancy and expertise in data collections, analysis and cyber security services.
• Support teams across Cyber, Investigations and Technical Consulting across regions.
• Deliver high quality client deliverables in a timely and efficient manner.

Skills

Cyber incident response

Forensic investigations

PowerShell scripting

Python

MITRE ATT&CK

Cyber Kill Chain

Client engagement

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Postgraduate degree or equivalent

EnCE

CISSP

Tools

EnCase

Nuix

Axiom

BlackBag

Office 365

Azure

AWS

Job description

Control Risks is seeking an experienced Senior Consultant to join the London DFIR team, acting as technical lead for engagements and guiding forensic investigations and cyber incident response. You will work with the Cyber Response and Discovery & Data Insights teams across regions to deliver high‑impact solutions.

You will deploy to crises on short notice, craft evidential analyses and reports, and contribute to business development while maintaining client trust and project integrity.