Cyber Security Analyst

Cyber Security Analyst

Posted 2 weeks ago by XML International

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Summary: The Senior Digital Forensic and Incident Response Consultant role at Verizon involves operating as a key investigator within the Verizon Threat Research Advisory Center (VTRAC). The position requires expertise in digital forensic investigations, incident response, and providing strategic advisory services to clients on cyber risk and resilience. The consultant will lead complex investigations, maintain forensic integrity, and engage in proactive resilience assessments. This role demands a combination of technical skills, client-facing experience, and the ability to work under pressure in a dynamic environment.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Conduct reactive forensic investigations and expert analysis for computer-related incidents.
  • Lead complex digital forensic investigations to determine attack vectors and data exfiltration.
  • Act as a technical subject matter expert in various forensic domains.
  • Maintain forensic integrity and produce comprehensive, court-admissible reports.
  • Conduct Incident Response Capability Assessments and deliver strategic improvement roadmaps.
  • Lead Incident Response Plan Development engagements based on industry standards.
  • Serve as a strategic advisor to client leadership on cyber risk and resilience strategy.
  • Design and facilitate breach simulation exercises and produce detailed post-exercise reports.

Key Skills:

  • Bachelor's degree or relevant work experience.
  • Experience in incident response, computer forensics, and related methodologies.
  • Proficiency in at least two operating systems: Windows, Linux, Unix, MacOS.
  • Experience consulting in a DFIR capacity and managing customer relationships.
  • Ability to maintain confidentiality and professionalism in dynamic environments.
  • Fluency in English, both written and verbal.
  • Fluency in additional European languages is a plus.
  • Advanced degree in Computer Science or related fields is preferred.
  • Experience in security assessments, penetration testing, and ethical hacking.
  • Understanding of information security, network architecture, and forensic tools.
  • Professional certifications such as GCFA, GCFE, GCIH, or equivalent are desirable.

Salary (Rate): undetermined

City: undetermined

Country: United Kingdom

Working Arrangements: remote

IR35 Status: inside IR35

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: IT

Detailed Description From Employer:

Senior Digital Forensic and Incident Response Consultant

Location: UK (Remote with some travel to client sites)

Contract duration: 12 months (inside IR35)

About the Company : Verizon is committed to providing an unparalleled, intelligence-driven approach to helping organizations prepare, respond, and recover from the most sophisticated cyber threats.

About the Role : You will be operating as a Senior Digital Forensic Incident Response (IR) Investigator within the Verizon Threat Research Advisory Center (VTRAC). As a DFIR specialist you’ll be expected to serve as a tactical arm of the team, conducting live incident response, computer forensic analysis, data recovery, and other IT investigative work.

Responsibilities :

  • Reactive Forensic Investigations & Expert Analysis: Ability to assist customers in responding rapidly and effectively to computer-related incidents and should consistently exceed expectations while working in a customer-facing setting.
  • Lead complex, large-scale digital forensic investigations in sophisticated security breaches, determining initial attack vectors, scope of compromise, and data exfiltration.
  • Act as the lead technical subject matter expert in at least two of the following domains: host-based forensics (Windows, Linux, macOS), network forensics and full packet capture analysis, memory forensics, mobile device forensics (iOS/Android), or Cloud Forensics.
  • Maintain forensic integrity of evidence and produce comprehensive, court-admissible reports and deliverables for clients, legal counsel, and regulatory bodies.
  • Proactive Resilience Engagements: Conduct formal Incident Response Capability Assessments (IRCA), benchmarking client programs against maturity models to identify critical gaps in people, process, and technology and delivering strategic improvement roadmaps.
  • Lead and deliver Incident Response Plan Development (IRPD) engagements, creating comprehensive, actionable IR plans for clients based on NIST, SANS, and other industry-standard frameworks.
  • Serve as a trusted strategic advisor to client leadership (including C-suite and Board level) on matters of cyber risk, incident preparedness, and resilience strategy.
  • Design, develop, and facilitate a range of sophisticated breach simulation exercises, from executive-level, discussion-based tabletop exercises to immersive, technical simulations.
  • Create realistic, tailored threat scenarios (e.g. multi-stage ransomware, insider threat, nation-state espionage) that effectively test a client's decision-making, communication, and technical response functions under pressure.
  • Produce detailed post-exercise reports with actionable recommendations to drive continuous improvement in client security posture.

Qualifications :

  • Bachelor's degree or relevant work experience.
  • Experience in the tools, techniques, and methodologies surrounding incident response, computer forensics, industrial control systems, IoT, and eDiscovery.
  • Experience in at least two (2) of the following operating systems: Windows, Linux, Unix, MacOS.
  • Experience consulting customers in DFIR capacity.
  • Experience managing the day-to-day aspects of protected customer relationships, as well as IT investigative cases and corporate security incidents.
  • Ability to work in a dynamic environment, while maintaining confidentiality, and a professional image and approach with customers is critical.
  • Willingness to travel on short notice.
  • Fluency in English both written and verbal.
  • Valid driver's license.

Required Skills :

  • Fluency in additional European languages (e.g., French, German, Dutch, etc.)
  • Advanced degree in Computer Science, Digital Forensics, or Cyber Incident Response.
  • Experience conducting security assessments, penetration testing, and ethical hacking.
  • Experience in evidentiary procedures, volatile criminal/civil situations, fraud analysis and IR fundamentals.
  • Understanding of information security; network architecture; general database concepts; document management; hardware and software troubleshooting; email systems, such as Microsoft Exchange, Office365, GSuite; Microsoft Office applications; and computer forensic tools such as EnCase and FTK, Velociraptor, EDR, NDR or XDR solutions -ie. CrowdStrike, Defender, SentinelOne, Darktrace, etc.
  • Experience regarding malware analysis and reverse engineering, network forensics, memory forensics and mobile forensics.
  • Experience in electronic crimes law enforcement, military intelligence, or with a security professional services organization.
  • Experience in a security professional services consulting firm.
  • One or more of the following professional certifications: GCFA, GCFE, GCIH, GNFA, CCSP, GREM, CISSP, CISM or equivalent, or ability to successfully achieve one within the first 6 months of employment.
  • Experience as a Payment Card Industry (PCI) Forensic Investigator (PFI) or Qualified Security Assessor (QSA).
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