Senior Incident Response Expert

RESOURCE CONSULTING PTE. LTD.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Sygnia is seeking a Senior Incident Response Expert to join their expanding team in Singapore. The role involves leading IR efforts, conducting complex investigations, and guiding client communications with authoritative reports.

Ideal candidates bring 5+ years in IR, strong malware analysis and forensics skills, and fluency in English. Willingness to travel internationally around 30% is required as part of client engagements.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of relevant incident response experience.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Proactive approach to investigations and complex security incidents.
• Ability to work collaboratively within multidisciplinary teams.
• Fluent English with clear written and oral communication.

Responsibilities

• Take ownership of IR efforts or an entire work stream and conduct complex tasks.
• Technically lead small-scale investigations and proactive engagements.
• Lead client communication and present reports.
• Participate in scoping calls and hiring interviews for IR experts.
• Generate and present comprehensive findings reports from investigations.

Skills

Incident response

Threat hunting

Forensics

Malware analysis

Python scripting

Log analysis

Network fundamentals

Cross-platform security

Communication skills

English fluency

Team collaboration

Client engagement leadership

Travel readiness

Tools

Splunk

QRadar

ArcSight

Job description

Our client is a top-tier cyber consulting and incident response company, working with organizations worldwide to proactively build their cyber resilience, and to respond to and defeat cyber attacks. Sygnia's trusted advisor of IT and security teams, senior managements, and boards of top organizations, including Fortune 100 companies. It is currently seeking a Senior Incident Response Expert to join their expanding team.

Main Responsibilities:

• Take ownership in core IR effort or an entire work stream, and conduct complex IR tasks
• Technically lead small-scale investigations and small-scale proactive engagements
• Lead client communication on dedicated sessions and present reports
• Participate in ad-hoc scoping calls
• Lead publication efforts
• Participate and lead hiring interviews for IR experts, review home assignments
• Participate in forensic and incident response investigations, including large scale sophisticated attacks,conduct log analysis, host and network-based forensics and malware analysis.
• Participate in threat hunting: proactively hunt for targeted attacks and new emerging threats in client's networks; as well as security assessments and simulations.
• Identify indicators of compromise (IOCs) and tools, tactics, and procedures (TTPs) to help ascertain whether and how breaches have occurred.
• Utilize and develop tools and methodologies to improve Sygnia's existing investigative and hunting technological stack.
• Collaborate with IT and Security teams during investigations.
• Generate and present a comprehensive and professional report of findings from investigations.

Requirements:

• At least 5 years of a relevant experience
• Demonstrates strong analytical and critical-thinking abilities.
• Possesses a proactive approach to problem-solving and investigating complex security incidents
• Demonstrates adaptability, continuous learning and the ability to work collaboratively within multidisciplinary teams.
• Takes ownership of responsibilities and demonstrates commitment to delivering high-quality work.
• Demonstrated in-depth understanding of the life cycle of advanced security threats, attack vectors and variant methods of exploration.
• Deep technical understanding of network fundamentals and common Internet protocols.
• Solid understanding of system and security controls on at least two OSs (Windows, Linux / Unix and MacOS), including host-based forensics and experience with analyzing OS artifacts.
• Fluency with one or more scripting language (i.e. Python).
• Multidisciplinary knowledge and competencies, such as:
• Hands-on experience in data analysis (preferably network traffic or log analysis) in relevant data analysis and data science platforms (Jupyter, Splunk, pandas, SQL).
• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure, web application and servers, android and iOS mobile platforms.
• Experience with malware analysis and reverse engineering.
• Familiarity with enterprise SIEM platforms (e.g. Splunk, QR.adar, ArcSight).
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills. Fluent English, including the ability to document and explain technical information in a concise, understandable manner.
• Ability to undertake international business travel, approximately 30% of working time, to support client engagements, on-site incident response investigations and other operational requirements

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