Cyber Response and Recovery - Assistant Manager (Proactive) in London

The Cyber Response & Recovery Assistant Manager role will be working in the Cyber Response Services (CRS) Team within our Advisory practice. Your specific focus will be in the domain of reactive digital forensics and incident response (DFIR) acting as a junior case manager on smaller cases, or part of a team (reporting to a case manager or senior case manager) on larger cases. This is a hands-on role, and an opportunity to join a high performing team that works with a wide variety of clients, as KPMG are one of just nine tier 1 responders in the UK. As such, you will gain a huge amount of experience in a short space of time and will also have the opportunity to be put through a range of security certifications.

In this role we are looking for a person who can demonstrate an emerging strong technical background, experience in incident response and digital forensics and is looking to grow into an incident response manager role as part of a growing team. When not responding to incidents, you may be helping our clients to build their in-house incident response capabilities, which could include building and developing cyber-response tools, authoring and adapting runbooks/playbooks, assessing the incident response maturity, assisting in table-top cyber-scenario exercises. When not engaged in client work, you will be helping to develop our own delivery capability, including operational efficiency, standard operating procedures, team learning and development, tooling and platforms, lab development and orchestration.

Candidates should have a proven track record of incident management, with a strong competency in digital forensics. KPMG will provide training and coaching to help you continually improve both your management and technical skills. Strong technical competency and experience of managing a range of complex cyber incidents; from ransomware to advanced network intrusions is a pre-requisite. Our clients expect that cyber-incidents will be tackled with urgency, therefore there is an expectation that you will be flexible in terms of working hours and be on call (on a rotation basis). In addition, you should be prepared to travel on short notice for periods up to 2 or 3 weeks at a time.

What will you be doing?

• Perform incident response activities during cyber security incidents for our clients (this includes being available to work on-call monthly).
• Carry out digital forensics of relevant incident data (disk, volatile memory, network packets, log files).
• Maintain a current view of the cyber threat and be able to advise clients on the threat landscape and attacks that may be relevant to them.
• Liaise with clients on delivery, implementation and project issue.
• Generate well-structured responses to bids and requests for proposals.

The Person

You should have a strong background in cyber-security and incident response. For example: you should be able to guide a client through an unstructured incident response process (such as an advanced network intrusion) – managing resources and defining objectives at each stage of the incident response process; scoping and triage, containment, evidence preservation and extraction, eradication, recovery, forensic analysis and investigation.

A broad understanding of the cyber security threat landscape. Strong technical background in computers and networks, and programming skills. Proven experience of dealing with cyber security incidents and associated response measures. Understanding of a wide range of information security and IT methodologies, principles, technologies and techniques. Excellent interpersonal, written and communication skills.

Skills we’d love to see / Amazing Extras:

The successful candidate will demonstrate competency in computing and networks as well as in cyber-security either by having the relevant work experience, completed a degree or obtained industry relevant certification. Therefore the qualifications below should be seen as means to demonstrate competency and not as a requirement.

• CREST Certified Incident Manager (CCIM)
• GIAC Certified Incident Handler (GCIH)
• MSc in Information Security, IT or relevant STEM subjects

Location: Our core hubs for this role are either: London (Canary Wharf); Manchester (St Peter’s Square). You must be within commutable distance to one of these locations. Current KPMG policy is 60% of the week with clients or our offices, 40% elsewhere (that can include working from home).

We’re a member of the Business Disability Forum so please get in touch if you'd like to discuss any adjustments that you might need in the application process – and if you are successful beyond this.