Senior Incident Response Consultant 2

Role Summary

Sophos is seeking an experienced and motivated Senior Incident Response Consultant to join our Digital Forensics & Incident Response (IR) service. The Sophos DFIR team is an elite group of incident responders that are engaged by organizations worldwide to respond to and neutralize cyber threats. Specializing in industry-standard forensic tools and Sophos technologies, the team provides comprehensive investigations, response actions, remediation guidance, and root cause analysis to combat a wide range of cybersecurity incidents.

As a Senior Incident Response Consultant on the Sophos DFIR team, you will be responsible for spearheading incident response engagements for customers who have experienced a cybersecurity attack. In this role, you will lead a team of Incident Response Consultants, running customer-facing calls, providing detailed written updates via email, and determining the priorities of the investigation, delegating tasks accordingly to your team. You will also be responsible for coordinating with legal counsel and cyber insurance carriers as needed.

In this role, you will be accountable for ensuring that the appropriate actions have been taken by both your team and the customer to effectively neutralize the threat. Additionally, you will be tasked with conducting a thorough root cause analysis to determine the origin of the incident, including identifying whether any data exfiltration occurred, provided the necessary evidence is available.

At the culmination of each engagement, you will be responsible for producing an executive summary-style report, which will include a timeline of key events mapped to the MITRE ATT&CK framework. This comprehensive report will serve as a valuable resource for stakeholders, highlighting the steps taken to combat the cybersecurity incident and provide remediation guidance.

The ideal candidate will have superior experience in some of the example disciplines, computer, network, cloud, memory, and email forensics, incident response including the technical management of high-profile security incidents, threat hunting and analysis, web application security, penetration testing, leading red and / or blue teaming exercises, and open-source intelligence (OSINT). This role requires a logical, pragmatic, meticulous, analytical, and authoritative person who is highly skilled in managing technical teams and has an elite understanding of core advanced threat detection, forensic methodologies, and incident response best practices to effectively manage and mitigate the technical aspects of complex security incidents.  This person leads the incident response, not just review and analyze data.