Director, Incident Response

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KPMG is currently seeking a Director, Incident Response to its Advisory Practice.

Responsibilities:

• Lead enterprise cyber incident response engagements, overseeing containment, investigation, recovery, remediation, and post-incident resilience efforts
• Advise executive leadership, boards, and key stakeholders during incidents, providing strategic guidance, crisis management, and cross-functional coordination
• Direct incident investigations, root cause analysis, and remediation initiatives while advancing incident response methodologies, playbooks, and service offerings
• Oversee, mentor, and QC high-performing incident response teams, driving operational excellence, service delivery, performance metrics, and continuous improvement
• Partner across cybersecurity, risk, privacy, and forensics teams while supporting business growth through client relationship management, solution development, and trusted advisory leadership
• Act with integrity, professionalism, and personal responsibility to uphold KPMG's respectful and courteous work environment

Qualifications:

• Minimum ten years of recent experience in incident response, threat management, digital forensics, security operations, or related cybersecurity disciplines; seven years leading incident response teams and large-scale response engagements; CISSP, GCIH, GCFA, GCFE, CISM, or similar certifications preferred
• Bachelor's degree in business or related field from an accredited college/university is preferred; minimum of a high school diploma or GED required plus twelve years of relevant experience in incident response
• Strong presence in the digital forensics and incident response market, including conference speaking experience and established relationships within the law firm and insurance sectors is highly preferred
• Proven experience leading complex cyber incident investigations and response engagements using industry frameworks such as NIST and SANS, with expertise across digital forensics, SIEM, EDR/XDR platforms, automation tools, and Windows, Linux, macOS, cloud (Azure, AWS, GCP), networking, and IT/OT environments
• Demonstrated success building and maturing incident response and cyber resilience programs, coupled with strong executive presence, stakeholder management, and the ability to lead multiple high-priority engagements while supporting client relationships and business growth
• 33% Travel requirement
• Applicant must be authorized to work in the U.S. without the need for employment-based visa sponsorship now or in the future; KPMG LLP will not sponsor applicants for U.S. work visa status for this opportunity (no sponsorship is available for H-1B, L-1, TN, O-1, E-3, H-1B1, F-1, J-1, OPT, CPT or any other employment-based visa)

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