Senior Consultant - FortiGuard Incident Response

Perception Point; Saudi Arabia; On-site; OMR 46,000 - 69,000; Full time

Job summary

Fortinet seeks a Senior Consultant – FortiGuard Incident Response to join our dynamic team and report to the Director of Operations. You will lead incident response engagements, mentor other security consultants, and leverage FortiEDR tooling to quickly determine threat context for clients.

The role requires deep technical skills in malware analysis, forensics, and threat actor TTPs, with responsibility for high-stakes client-facing deliverables and occasional after-hours work.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or 5+ years in incident response/forensics.
• Strong consulting and client-facing communication skills.
• Hands-on malware analysis, memory forensics and log review.

Responsibilities

• Lead IR engagements and mentor junior analysts.
• Conduct host-based and network forensics on multiple OS.
• Develop clear, executive-ready incident reports.
• Leverage FortiEDR for rapid threat analysis.
• Coordinate with clients and operations leadership.
• Occasional night/weekend availability.

Skills

Customer interfacing

Scripting (Shell/Python)

Threat hunting

Forensics analysis

Malware analysis

Executive communication

Team mentoring

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering/CS

5+ years incident response/forensics

Tools

IDA Pro

OllyDbg

Immunity Debugger

EnCase

FTK

X-Ways

SIFT

Splunk

Wireshark

TCPDump

Volatility

YARA

Job description

We are looking for a Senior Consultant – FortiGuard Incident Response to work in a dynamic and exciting new position reporting to the Director of Operations for FortiGuard Security Consulting Services. The analyst will work directly with members of a world class incident response and forensics team. Our team is comprised of individuals with strong knowledge in malware hunting and analysis, reverse engineering, multiple scripting languages, forensics and threat actors TTPs. In this very hands-on customer facing role the consultant’s main objective is to lead and manage the incident response engagements and train/mentor other security consultants. Leveraging your in-depth understanding of the threat actors’ tactics, techniques, procedures and tools as well as our flagship FortiEDR tooling you will need to quickly glean situational awareness to provide guidance to the team members as well as to the client. In addition, from time to time the candidate will help to create threat research work products such as blogs and presentations. To be successful in this role the candidate must be possess strong consulting skills, deep technical skills and able to work under tight timelines.

Responsibilities:

• Assist the IR Lead during engagements and mentoring/training junior analysis
• Continue to focus on process improvement for the customer facing incident response services
• Conduct host-based analysis and forensic functions on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X systems
• Conduct network forensics and log analysis during IR engagements
• Review firewall, web, database, and other log sources to identify evidence and artifacts of malicious and compromised activity
• Leverage our FortiEDR Platform to conduct investigations to rapidly detect and analyze security threats
• Perform memory forensics and file analysis as needed
• Monitor underground forums, our FortiGuard Threat Labs, along with other open-source intelligence outlets to maintain proficiency in latest actor tactics and techniques
• Preform basic reverse engineering of threat actor’s malicious tools
• Develop complete and informative reports and presentations for both executive and technical audience
• Availability during nights/weekends as needed for IR engagements

Required Skills:

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills a must
• Experience interfacing with customers
• Experience with of at least one scripting language: Shell, Ruby, Perl, Python, etc
• Ability to data mine using YARA, RegEx or other techniques to identify new threats
• Experienced with EnCase, FTK, X-Ways, SIFT, Splunk, Redline, Volatility, WireShark, TCPDump, and open source forensic tools a plus
• Experience with malware analysis tools such as IDA Pro, OllyDbg, Immunity Debugger
• Hands-on experience dealing with APT campaigns, attack Tactics, Techniques and Procedures (TTPs), memory injection techniques, static and dynamic malware analysis and malware persistence mechanism
• Strong knowledge of operating system internals and endpoint security experience.
• Able to communicate with both technical and executive personnel
• Static and dynamic malware and log analysis
• Analysis of Linux and MAC binary files and the understanding of MAC internals is a plus but not required.
• Highly motivated, self-driven and able to work both independently and within a team
• Able to work under pressure in time critical situations and occasional nights and weekends work
• A solid understanding of Active Directory and how to secure is a plus

Education:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science or related field
• Or 5+ years’ experience with incident response and or Forensics

Fortinet makes possible a digital world that we can always trust through its mission to protect people, devices, and data everywhere. This is why the world’s largest enterprises, service providers, and government organizations choose Fortinet to securely accelerate their digital journey. The Fortinet Security Fabric platform delivers broad, integrated, and automated protections across the entire digital attack surface, securing critical devices, data, applications, and connections from the data center to the cloud to the home office. Ranking #1 in the most security appliances shipped worldwide, more than 615,000 customers trust Fortinet to protect their businesses. And the Fortinet NSE Training Institute, an initiative of Fortinet’s Training Advancement Agenda (TAA), provides one of the largest and broadest training programs in the industry to make cyber training and new career opportunities available to everyone.

We are looking for a Senior Consultant – FortiGuard Incident Response to work in a dynamic and exciting new position reporting to the Director of Operations for FortiGuard Security Consulting Services.