Job Title: Senior Cyber Incident Responder Location: Anywhere in Australia with Flexible working arrangements
Are you passionate about cybersecurity? Do you have a proactive mindset, an endless curiosity regarding the abnormal, and an unquenchable thirst for continuous improvement in detection and response?
KPMG is looking for Senior Cyber Incident Responders to join our growing Cyber Attack and Incident Response team. Join us and be part of a team that is building, managing, and maintaining a best of class Cyber Incident Response capability.
KPMG Australia is part of a global network providing extensive services across a wide range of industries and sectors. Our people collaborate, share their expertise and create innovation as we partner with clients to solve complex challenges, empower change, drive disruption and growth. We look for talented people with the potential to make an extraordinary difference for our clients, our firm and our communities.
The Opportunity Our clients expect that cyber-incidents will be tackled with urgency, therefore, there is an expectation that you will be flexible in terms of working hours. In return, KPMG will offer flexible working hours and work from home days for employees who have demonstrate reliability in delivery.
The role will be working in the Cyber Incident Response Team within our Forensic practice.
In this role we are looking for a person who can demonstrate strong technical background, experience in incident response and digital forensics and is looking to grow skills and experience.
As a member of our Cyber Incident Response team, you will provide dark web monitoring, incident response, digital forensics, malware analysis, and threat hunting services to our clients. As part of this you will be performing digital forensics of systems to collect, preserve, examine, analyse, and report on evidence in support of incident response, cyber threat intelligence development, and applicable legal or compliance requirements.
You will be expected to maintain awareness of current security threats and adversary TTPs.
The successful candidate should have experience providing incident response and remediation support and must be comfortable acting as a liaison between KPMG and other interfacing teams and stakeholders during security incidents.
The Senior Cyber Incident Responder should be a continuous learner and have a natural curiosity, strong attention to detail, organizational skills, and superior communication and writing skills. The successful candidate should be a natural leader and will provide guidance and mentoring to other analysts on the team.
When not responding to incidents, you will help our clients to build their in-house incident response capabilities, which will include building and developing cyber-response tools, developing runbooks/playbooks, assessing the incident response maturity, assisting in tabletop, cyber range, purple team exercises and enhance information sharing within the team.
How are you Extraordinary? This position is well suited for an individual with significant experience in cyber-security, threat hunting and incident response. You will be expected to have,
• 3+ years of experience in SOC / IR.
• A broad understanding of the modern threat landscape.
• Strong technical background in computers and networks, and programming skills.
• Experience of dealing with cyber security incidents and associated response measures.
• Experience of being part of an incident response team, Security Operations Centre (SOC) either holding a formal role, or being able to evidence your personal contribution to the team.
• Understanding of a wide range of Cyber security and IT methodologies, principles, technologies and techniques.
• Excellent communication skills (both written and oral) and project management skills.
• A genuine interest and desire to work in the information security field.
• Standing and positive reputation in the Cyber security community is seen as a plus.