Incident Response & DFIR
Posted 30 Sep 2026
Advertised as “Incident Response & DFIR Lead”
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- Management level
- People management
- Contract
- Full-time
Compensation
No salary listed for this role.
Role speciality
Digital Forensics and Incident ResponseIncident Response
Useful technologies
Active DirectoryAutopsyAWSCortex XDREDRElastic SecurityEnCaseFTKKAPEMagnetMicrosoft Entra IDPowerShellPythonSIEMVelociraptorVolatilityXDR
Preferred qualifications
CertificationsGCIH, GCFA, GCFE, GNFA, OSCP, CISSP
We are inviting you, a highly motivated and results-oriented Incident Response & DFIR Lead to join our team on a full-time basis.
Our team has unique expertise in research, analysis, and product development. By relying on technical insights and a data-driven approach, we create disruptive future-defining innovations of the fin-tech industry that remain our basis for success.
Responsibilities
- Lead incident response, containment and forensic coordination for confirmed security incidents
- Act as Incident Commander for major security incidents within the defined authority model
- Assign incident roles and maintain clear ownership of investigation, containment and recovery actions
- Maintain incident timelines, evidence logs, decision logs and action tracking
- Coordinate investigation across endpoints, servers, identities, cloud platforms, SaaS environments and relevant network telemetry
- Direct forensic collection and analysis required to determine attack path, scope, persistence and impact
- Coordinate containment actions with IAM, Platform, IT, Security Engineering, Product and other technical owners
- Recommend high-impact containment decisions to the Group Manager of Cyber Defense and CISO where required
- Coordinate eradication and recovery activities and ensure systems return to a sufficiently trusted state
- Ensure relevant evidence is preserved for Legal, HR, regulatory, disciplinary and post-incident requirements
- Maintain practical forensic and evidence-handling standards
- Develop and maintain incident playbooks, forensic checklists and containment procedures
- Lead post-incident reviews and root-cause analysis
- Ensure post-incident remediation actions have accountable owners, due dates and follow-up
- Identify telemetry, detection and forensic-readiness gaps exposed during investigations
- Convert investigation findings into recommendations for Detection Engineering, IAM, Security Engineering, Product Security and other control owners
- Support incident exercises and readiness testing
- Develop and mentor Incident Response / DFIR Specialists
- Coordinate with external forensic, incident-response or specialist providers where required
- Provide concise incident updates to Cyber Defense leadership, CISO and relevant stakeholders
Requirements
- Strong hands-on knowledge of the incident response lifecycle: investigation, containment, eradication, recovery and lessons learned