Incident Response Consultant - Weekend Shift (Remote, GBR)
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📍 United Kingdom
📅 Posted 2026-08-18 · via Himalayas
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About the Role:
Weekend Work Schedule is Friday - Monday (10 hr work day/ 40 hr work week)
Am I an IR Consultant Candidate?
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Do you find yourself interested in and keeping up with the latest vulnerabilities and breaches?
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Are you self-motivated and looking for an opportunity to rapidly accelerate your skills?
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Do you crave new and innovative work that actually matters to your customer?
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Do you have an Incident Response or Information Security background that you’re not fully utilizing?
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Are you capable of leading teams and interacting with customers?
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Do you love working around like-minded, smart people who you can learn from and mentor on a daily basis?
What You''ll Do:
- Lead incident response engagements.
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Develop and use new methods to hunt for bad actors across large sets of data.
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Work under the direction of outside counsel to conduct intrusion investigations.
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Perform host and/or network-based forensics across Windows, Mac, and Linux platforms.
- Perform basic malware analysis.
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Produce high-quality written and verbal reports, presentations, recommendations, and findings to key stakeholders including customer management, regulators, and legal counsel.
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Demonstrate industry thought leadership through blog posts, CrowdCasts, and other public speaking events.
What You'll Need:
Successful candidates will have experience in one or more of the following areas:
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Team leadership experience in a matrixed consulting environment.
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Incident Response: experience conducting or managing incident response investigations for organizations, investigating targeted threats such as the Advanced Persistent Threat, Organized Crime, and Hacktivists.
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Computer Forensic Analysis: a background using a variety of forensic analysis tools in incident response investigations to determine the extent and scope of compromise.
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Network Forensic Analysis: strong knowledge of network protocols, network analysis tools like Bro/Zeek or Suricata, and ability to perform analysis of associated network logs.
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Reverse Engineering: ability to understand the capabilities of static and dynamic malware analysis.
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Incident Remediation: strong understanding of targeted attacks and able to create customized tactical and strategic remediation plans for compromised organizations.
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Network Operations and Architecture/Engineering: fundamental understanding of secure network architecture and network operations.
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Cloud Incident Response: knowledge in any of the following areas: AWS, Azure, GCP incident response methodologies.
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Communications: strong ability to communicate executive and/or detailed level findings to clients; ability to effectively communicate tasks, guidance, and methodology with internal teams.
Additionally, all candidates must possess the following qualifications:
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Capable of completing technical tasks without supervision.
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Desire to grow and expand both technical and soft skills.
- Strong project management skills.
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Contributing thought leader within the incident response industry.
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Ability to foster a positive wor