Associate, Incident Response
Posted 18 Aug 2025
Advertised as “Associate (Forensics Lead), Incident Response”
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- Management level
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CertificationsGCFE, GCFA, GCIH, GNFA, EnCE, CFSR, CISSP, GREM, CCNA, MCFE, OSCP, Network+, Security+
ASSOCIATE (FORENSICS LEAD), INCIDENT RESPONSE APAC
Who we are
S-RM is a global intelligence and cyber security consultancy. Since 2005, we’ve helped some of the most demanding clients in the world solve some of their toughest information security challenges.
We’ve been able to do this because of our outstanding people. We’re committed to developing sharp, curious, driven individuals who want to think critically, solve complex problems, and achieve success.
But we also know that work isn’t everything. It’s about the lives and careers it helps us build. We’re immensely proud of this culture and we invest in our people’s wellbeing, learning, and ideas every day.
We’re excited you’re thinking about joining us
The role
Our Incident Response Associates are a critical part of our Cyber Security division's success.
As a Forensics Lead on our Incident Response team, you will deploy your expertise in a delivery role across our various incident response services, with a particular focus on forensic investigations into complex cyber incidents.
You will work across the full lifecycle of security incidents to help our clients respond and recover, including:
- Supporting technical incident response from first contact through to closure: you will be a technical resource on response cases, deploying your own expertise, creating tailored strategies for response workstreams, and offering guidance to colleagues on your project team. You may also be supported by more senior technical team members where appropriate.
Overseeing host- and network-based incident response investigations: including triage, system recovery, technical evidence collection, and forensics, log, malware and root cause analyses..
- Developing and sharing domain expertise: we will support you in growing your cyber expertise, including sharing it with the wider team through internal initiatives and programs.
- Participating in an on-call rotation to provide 24x7x365 client incident coverage.
Other features of the role include:
- Variety of casework: no day will be the same. Our team responds to a huge variety of incidents for both public and corporate clients.
- Range of opportunities: you will have opportunities to broaden your security awareness into testing and advisory projects, in addition to deepening your incident response expertise.
- Flexible working practices: responding to incidents can be intense, high-pressure work. We are mindful of our team's work/life balance and offer flexible working options to support your wellbeing.