Lead Consultant - FortiGuard Incident Response

• Job Identification 22923
• Job Category Incident Response
• Posting Date 05/15/2026, 11:09 AM
• Job Schedule Full time

We are looking for a Lead Consultant – Forti Guard Incident Response to work in a dynamic and exciting new position reporting to the Director of Operations for Forti Guard Security Consulting Services. The analyst will work directly with members of a world class incident response and forensics team. Our team is comprised of individuals with strong knowledge in malware hunting and analysis, reverse engineering, multiple scripting languages, forensics and threat actors’ TTPs .

In this very hands-on customer facing role the consultant’s main objective is to lead and manage the incident response engagements and train/mentor other security consultants. Leveraging your in-depth understanding of the threat actors’ tactics, techniques, procedures and tools as well as our flagship FortiEDR tooling you will need to quickly glean situational awareness to provide guidance to the team members as well as to the client.

In addition, from time to time the candidate will help to create threat research work products such as blogs and presentations. To be successful in this role the candidate must be possess strong consulting skills, deep technical skills and able to work under tight timelines.

Responsibilities:

• Lead IR engagements and mentoring/training junior analysts
• Serve as the primary contact for clients during investigations, delivering clear technical and executive-level updates.

Continue to focus on process improvement for the customer facing incident response services

Conduct host-based analysis and forensic functions on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X systems

Review firewall, web, database, and other log sources to identify evidence and artifacts of malicious and compromised activity

Leverage our FortiEDR Platform to conduct investigations to rapidly detect and analyze security threats

• Perform memory forensics and file analysis as needed

Contribute to threat intelligence consumption and generation within the Forti Guard threat intelligence ecosystem.

Perform basic reverse engineering of threat actors’ malicious tools

Develop complete and informative reports and presentations for both executive and technical audience

Availability during nights/weekends as needed for IR engagements

Required Skills:

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Experience interfacing with customers

• Experience with of at least one scripting language:
  Shell, Ruby, Perl, Python, etc
• Ability to data mine using YARA, Reg Ex or other techniques to identify new threats

Experienced with EnCase, FTK, X-Ways, SIFT, Splunk, Redline, Volatility, Wire Shark, TCPDump, and open source forensic tools a plus

• Experience with malware analysis tools such as IDA Pro, Olly Dbg, Immunity Debugger
• Hands-on experience dealing with APT campaigns, attack Tactics, Techniques and Procedures (TTPs), memory injection techniques, static and dynamic malware analysis and malware persistence mechanism
• Strong knowledge of operating system internals and endpoint security experience.
• Able to communicate with both technical and executive personnel
• Static and dynamics malware and log analysis
• Analysis of Linux and MAC binary files and the understanding of MAC internals is a plus but not required .
• Highly motivated, self-driven and able to work both independently and within a team
• Able to work under pressure in time critical situations and occasional nights and weekends work

A solid understanding of Active Directory and how to secure is a plus

Education:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science or related field
• Or 10+ years’ experience with incident response and or Forensics

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