Cyber Response & Recovery Manager - German Speaker

Cyber Response & Recovery Manager (Reactive DFIR)
This role requires current SC or DV clearance, or eligibility and willingness to obtain clearance.

About the role

The Cyber Response & Recovery Manager role will be working in the Cyber Response Services (CRS) Team within our Cyber Advisory practice.

Your specific focus will be in the domain of reactive digital forensics and incident response (DFIR) acting as a case manager on medium to large cases.

This is a hands-on incident response 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  this role we are looking for a person who can demonstrate strong technical background, experience in incident response and digital forensics and is looking to grow into an incident response leadership role as part of a growing team.

You will be expected to lead a number of incident response cases as a case manager, as well as have the opportunity to work with, and learn from, the service leadership as part of your continuous development.

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.

Above all, KPMG is looking for someone who is passionate about helping our clients with their cyber security challenges, often at a time of critical need. In return, we are committed to helping you to enjoy the role and develop your skills and career within the KPMG with the objective of progressing into a senior leadership role.

Why join us?

One of only nine UK Tier 1 incident response providers

Access to nationally significant incidents

Exposure across government and critical infrastructure

Investment in certifications and training

Opportunity to shape a rapidly growing capability

What will you be doing? Manage and co-ordinate cyber security incidents for our clients, working closely the cyber response leadership team.

Digital forensics of relevant incident data (disk, volatile memory, network packets, log files).Maintaining a current view of the cyber threat, and being able to advise clients on the threat landscape and attacks which may be relevant to them.

Manage the development of KPMG’s in house cyber-response tools.

Assess client incident response capability maturity.

Help stand-up or improve clients’ own incident response capabilities.

Project management of engagements to deliver high quality work in a timely manner, including:

Scoping and costing…