DFIR Managing Consultant
Job Location:
Job Location:
Manchester - UK
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
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Posted on:
8 days ago
Posted on:
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
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Job Summary
Role Purpose:
To manage and service NCC Group clients within the Incident Response space.
The Managing Consultant plays a critical role within the DFIR team of experienced consultants delivering highquality incident response and proactive services to clients. The role involves leading and contributing to detailed technical analysis managing incident response activities and ensuring effective communication and coordination throughout an engagement.
With a strong focus on technically supporting clients during live incidents the Managing Consultant is also expected to contribute to projects enhancing the teams internal capabilities through continuous improvement of processes tooling and technical approaches. Applying strong foundational DFIR skills and a meticulous detailoriented approach to analysis the Managing Consultant provides trusted expertise and guidance to clients during complex and highpressure situations.
The role also includes line management responsibilities with opportunities to mentor support and develop junior consultants fostering technical excellence professional growth and a collaborative team culture.
Key Responsibilities
- Leadership in coordinating a team of experienced DFIR consultants deployed during an promoting effective collaboration clear communication and highquality delivery throughout investigative and incident response engagements.
- Actively responding to cyber security incidents providing handson technical analysis containment mitigation and remediation support to clients.
- Demonstrating calm confident incident leadership and sound judgement in client Incident Management scenarios including highpressure and timecritical environments.
- Delivering thorough highquality incident response investigations that support client decisionmaking and recovery.
- Collaborating with clients and internal stakeholders to identify resolve document and improve response to security incidents.
- Delivery of proactive engagements such as first responder training and technical tabletops to clients to aid in their improvement of handling incidents.
- Supporting the development of team capability through mentoring knowledge sharing and line management of junior consultants.
Skills Knowledge & Expertise
- Extensive experience working in incident response digital forensics or security operations with a demonstrable focus on incident response delivery.
- Proven experience leading teams during cyber incidents providing clear incident management and technical direction to clients.
- Strong knowledge of enterprise security controls and common defensive technologies.
- Ability to design and develop scripts tooling or automation to enhance investigative effectiveness and response efficiency.
- Handson experience triaging and investigating Windows Linux and macOS hosts.
- Demonstrable experience delivering incident response engagements within cloud environments.
- Ability to produce clear highquality written and verbal outputs including reports presentations recommendations and executivelevel findings for clients.
- Relevant professional certifications such as CREST CPIA CRIA CCNIA or CCHIA and or SANS certifications including GCFA GNFA or GCIH.
- Experience delivering technical tabletop exercises and leading clients through incident scenarios to test and improve processes and response capability.
- Strong understanding of common enterprise technologies and configurations including cloud platforms such as Azure Microsoft 365 AWS and GCP.
Job Benefits
Behaviours:
- Focusing on Clients and Customers.
- Working as One NCC.
- Always Learning.
- Being Inclusive and Respectful.
- Delivery Brilliantly.
Why NCC Group
At NCC Group our mission is to create a more secure digital future. That mission underpins everything we do from our work with our incredible clients to groundbreaking research shaping our industry. Our teams partner with clients across a multitude of industries delving into securing new products and emerging technologies as well as solving complex security problems. As global leaders in cyber and escrow NCC Group is a people-powered business seeking the next group of brilliant minds to join our ranks.
Our colleagues are our greatest asset and NCC Group is committed to providing an inclusive and supportive work environment that fosters creativity collaboration authenticity and accountability. We want colleagues to put down roots at NCC Group and we offer a comprehensive benefits package as well as opportunities for learning and development and career growth. We believe our people are at their brilliant best when they feel bolstered in all aspects of their well-being and we offer wellness programs and flexible working arrangements to provide that vital support.
Our mission in the Digital Forensics and Incident Response Team is to be recognized by clients analyst and partners as world-class player.
Our vision:
- A trusted advisor at the juncture of cyber and legal we are a global team of experts with local presence.
- We help you understand and mitigate threats from external or internal sources.
- We are there when you need us the most. We help you navigate complex issues often under pressure of time: identifying preserving processing and examining digital evidence.
- We use technology and insights to discover analyze and present facts.
Our advice is unbiased. Our reports are concise.
So whats next
If this sounds like the right opportunity for you then we would love to hear from you! Click on apply to this job to send us your CV and cover letter and the relevant member of our global talent team will be in touch with you. Alternatively send your details to .
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