Cyber Defense Forensics Analyst

At EY, you’ll have the chance to build a career as unique as you are, with the global scale, support, inclusive culture and technology to become the best version of you. EY focuses on high‑ethical standards and integrity; we expect all candidates to demonstrate these qualities. Protecting data and information systems is central to doing business, and everyone in EY Information Security has a critical role to play.

Join our global team of almost 950 people who collaborate to protect EY and client information assets.

Cyber Triage and Forensics (CTF) Incident Analyst will work as a senior member of the technical team responsible for security incident response for EY. The candidate will work as an escalation point for suspect or confirmed security incidents.

• Investigate, coordinate, bring to resolution, and report on security incidents as they are brought up or identified.
• Forensically analyze end‑user systems and servers found to have possible indicators of compromise.
• Analysis of artifacts collected during a security incident/forensic analysis.
• Identify security incidents through “Hunting” operations within a SIEM and other relevant tools.
• Interface and connect with server owners, system custodians, and IT contacts to pursue security incident response activities, including obtaining access to systems, digital artifact collection, and containment and/or remediation actions.
• Provide consultation and assessment on perceived security threats.
• Maintain, manage, improve and update security incident process and protocol documentation.
• Regularly provide reporting and metrics on case work.
• Resolution of security incidents by identifying root cause and solutions.
• Analyze findings in investigative matters and develop fact‑based reports.
• Be on‑call to deliver global incident response.

• Resolution of security incidents by identifying root cause and solutions.
• Analyze findings in investigative matters, and develop fact‑based reports.
• Proven integrity and judgment within a professional environment.
• Ability to appropriately balance work/personal priorities.

• Bachelor's or Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering or a related field.
• 5+ years experience in incident response, computer forensics analysis and/or malware reverse engineering.
• Understanding of security threats, vulnerabilities, and incident response.
• Understanding of electronic investigation, forensic tools, and methodologies, including log correlation and analysis, forensically handling electronic data, knowledge of the computer security investigative processes, malware identification and analysis.
• Be familiar with legalities surrounding electronic discovery and analysis.
• Experience with SIEM technologies (e.g. Splunk).
• Deep understanding of both Windows and Unix/Linux based operating systems.

• Hold or be willing to pursue related professional certifications such as GCFE, GCFA or GCIH.
• Background in security incident response in cloud‑based environments, such as Azure.
• Programming skills in Power Shell, Python and/or C/C++.
• Understanding of the best security practices for network architecture and server configuration.

• Demonstrated integrity in a professional environment.
• Ability to work independently.
• Have a global mindset for working with different cultures and backgrounds.
• Knowledgeable in business industry standard security incident response process, procedures, and lifecycle.
• Excellent teaming skills.
• Excellent social, communication, and writing skills.

The compensation ranges below are provided in order to comply with United States pay transparency laws. Other geographies will follow their local salary guidelines.

The base salary range for this job in all geographic locations in the US is $87,700 to $164,000. The salary range for New York City Metro Area, Washington State and California (excluding Sacramento) is $105,200 to $186,400. Individual salaries within those ranges are determined through a wide variety of factors including but not limited to education, experience, knowledge, skills and…