Lead Consultant - FortiGuard Incident Response

Perception Point; Saudi Arabia; On-site; SAR 300,000 - 600,000; Full time

Job summary

Fortinet is seeking a Lead Consultant – FortiGuard Incident Response to lead and mentor a world-class incident response team. You will engage with clients, guide junior analysts, and ensure rapid, accurate investigations using FortiEDR tooling.

The role requires deep technical skills across malware analysis, forensics, memory analysis, and threat hunting, with strong consulting and communication abilities to report to executives and technical staff alike.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related field.
• 10+ years of incident response and/or forensics experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead IR engagements and mentoring junior analysts.
• Serve as primary client contact during investigations with clear updates.
• Improve processes for customer-facing incident response services.
• Conduct host-based analysis and forensics on Windows, Linux, macOS.
• Review logs to identify malicious activity, leverage FortiEDR for investigations.
• Perform memory forensics and file analysis as needed.
• Contribute to threat intelligence within FortiGuard ecosystem.
• Develop reports for executive and technical audiences.
• Available for nights/weekends as needed.

Skills

Scripting

Malware analysis

Forensics

Incident response

Client communication

OS internals

Memory forensics

Leadership

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in CS/Engineering

10+ years IR/Forensics

Tools

IDA Pro

FTK

Volatility

Wireshark

SIFT

Splunk

Job description

We are looking for a Lead 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 possess strong consulting skills, deep technical skills and be able to work under tight timelines.

Responsibilities

• Lead IR engagements and mentoring/training junior analysts
• Serve as the primary contact for clients during investigations, delivering clear technical and executive-level updates.
• 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
• 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
• Contribute to threat intelligence consumption and generation within the FortiGuard threat intelligence ecosystem.
• Perform basic reverse engineering of threat actors’ 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
• 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 dynamics 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 10+ 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 Lead Consultant – FortiGuard Incident Response to work in a dynamic and exciting new position reporting to the Director of Operations for FortiGuard Security Consulting Services.