Senior Security Consultant

Job Description – Senior Cybersecurity Incident Response Specialist

Experience: 8–10 Years

Function: Cybersecurity – Incident Response / DFIR

Role Level: Senior

Role Overview

We are looking for an experienced Cybersecurity Incident Response Specialist with 8–10 years of hands-on cybersecurity experience to manage and investigate security incidents across enterprise environments.

The candidate will be responsible for end-to-end ownership of cybersecurity incidents, including triage, investigation, containment, eradication, recovery, Root Cause Analysis (RCA), malware analysis, and digital forensic analysis. The role also requires strong customer-facing skills to lead incident discussions, provide regular updates, explain technical findings, and present investigation outcomes and recommendations.

Key Responsibilities

Communication & Leadership Skills

- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Strong customer-facing and stakeholder-management capabilities.
- Ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Ability to lead incident bridges/calls during critical incidents.
- Strong documentation and report-writing skills.
- Ability to take ownership, make investigation decisions, and drive incidents to closure.
- Ability to mentor junior Incident Response/SOC analysts and provide technical guidance during investigations.

Responsibilities

Take end-to-end ownership of cybersecurity incidents from initial detection through closure.; Lead investigation of Critical, High, and complex security incidents and coordinate response activities across relevant teams.; Perform incident triage, scoping, containment, eradication, recovery, and post-incident analysis.; Investigate incidents involving ransomware, malware, phishing, account compromise, credential theft, data exfiltration, insider threats, web attacks, lateral movement, privilege escalation, and other advanced threats.; Analyze security alerts and correlate information across EDR, SIEM, network, identity, cloud, email, and other security technologies.; Develop incident timelines and determine the attack vector, affected assets, compromised accounts, attacker activity, persistence mechanisms, and overall impact.; Identify Indicators of Compromise (IOCs), attacker Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs), and map findings to the MITRE ATT&CK framework.; Coordinate with SOC, Threat Hunting, Threat Intelligence, IT, Cloud, Network, IAM, Application, Legal, and other stakeholders during major incidents.; Perform detailed Root Cause Analysis for security incidents.; Determine the initial attack vector, contributing factors, security/control gaps, and reasons existing preventive or detective controls did not stop or detect the activity earlier.; Conduct post-incident reviews and lessons-learned sessions.; Develop clear corrective and preventive actions based on investigation findings.; Track remediation recommendations with relevant stakeholders through closure.; Prepare comprehensive RCA reports suitable for technical teams, management, and customers.; Perform static and dynamic malware analysis to understand malicious file behavior and capabilities.; Analyze suspicious executables, scripts, PowerShell commands, documents, URLs, and other artifacts.; Identify malware persistence mechanisms, command-and-control activity, network indicators, file-system changes, registry modifications, and related behaviors.; Extract IOCs and behavioral indicators for threat hunting and detection engineering.; Perform malware sandboxing and behavioral analysis where required.; Provide recommendations for detection, containment, and prevention based on malware-analysis findings.; Perform digital forensic investigations on endpoints and other relevant systems.; Analyze Windows/Linux artifacts, event logs, file systems, registry artifacts, browser artifacts, authentication logs, memory artifacts, and other forensic evidence.; Perform disk and memory analysis where required.; Collect and preserve digital evidence following appropriate forensic procedures and chain-of-custody requirements.; Build forensic timelines and reconstruct attacker activities.; Determine the scope and impact of compromise using forensic evidence.; Document forensic findings clearly and maintain investigation evidence appropriately.; Act as a key technical point of contact for customers during cybersecurity incidents.; Lead incident calls and communicate investigation progress, impact, containment status, risks, and next steps.; Provide timely and accurate incident updates to customers and internal leadership.; Translate complex technical investigation findings into clear business-level communication.; Manage customer expectations during high-severity and time-sensitive incidents.; Present RCA and forensic investigation findings to customers and senior stakeholders.; Handle technical questions and confidently explain investigation methodology, evidence, conclusions, and recommendations.; Coordinate with multiple internal and customer teams to drive incidents toward timely resolution.; Prepare detailed incident investigation reports, including:; Maintain accurate incident records, evidence, investigation notes, and supporting documentation.; Contribute to the development and improvement of Incident Response playbooks, SOPs, investigation procedures, and escalation processes.; Executive summary; Incident timeline

Requirements

Cybersecurity Incident Response / DFIR; Security Incident Investigation; Root Cause Analysis (RCA); Digital Forensics; Malware Analysis; Threat Hunting; Endpoint and Network Investigation; Windows and Linux Forensics; Disk and Memory Analysis; Log Analysis and Timeline Reconstruction; IOC and TTP Analysis; MITRE ATT&CK Framework; SIEM platforms such as Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel, QRadar, or similar; EDR/XDR platforms such as CrowdStrike, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, SentinelOne, Cortex XDR, or similar; Network security technologies including Firewall, IDS/IPS, Proxy, DNS, VPN, and WAF; Cloud security investigation across AWS, Azure, and/or GCP environments; Identity and authentication-related investigations; Email and phishing investigations; Forensic and malware-analysis tools such as Volatility, Autopsy, FTK, EnCase, Wireshark, Sysinternals, YARA, Ghidra, IDA, or equivalent tools; Scripting/automation using Python, PowerShell, or similar technologies would be an advantage.; 8–10 years of overall cybersecurity experience, with significant hands-on experience in Incident Response, DFIR, SOC, Threat Hunting, or related security domains.; Demonstrated experience independently handling complex and high-severity cybersecurity incidents.; Strong experience conducting RCA and presenting investigation findings.; Hands-on experience with malware and forensic investigations.; Experience handling customer-facing security incidents and leading technical/customer incident calls.; Experience coordinating investigations involving multiple technical and business teams.; Ability to work effectively under pressure during Critical/High-severity incidents.; Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.