Incident Response Engagement Lead

Job Title: Incident Response Engagement Lead

Location: Hong Kong or Singapore

We are supporting a global intelligence and cyber security consultancy firm's expansion plans across the APAC region. Highly respected in their industry, our client are a trusted partner to handle matters such as assessing reputation, corporate governance, track-records, corruption, bribery and other financial crime concerns, cyber security, incident response, and regulatory dynamics, as well as ethical, social and environmental concerns on behalf of their clients. 

With years' of impressive year on year growth and recognition as the incident response team of the year in 2023 in other leading global markets, our client with over 120 cyber security consultants globally is looking to continue its place as one of the globe's premier cyber security and incident response consulting providers with the opening of this new headcount in APAC. 

Working as part of a global team, the Engagement Lead will be responsible for the management of incident response cases from first contact through to case closure, acting as the primary point of contact for internal and external stakeholders. Whilst the primary focus of this position will be to support incident response matters, some proactive and risk assessment work will also form part of the scope.

Responsibilities:

• Deliver incident response consulting to clients across a broad range of
  industries
• Oversee host - and network - based cyber breach incident response investigations that might include: triage, system recovery, technical evidence collection, forensics, log, malware analysis, root cause analyses, identification of attacker tools, tactics and procedures 
• Lead on cyber security pre-breach engagements, including information security controls assessments, risk assessments, vulnerability assessments, regulatory and compliance assessments, training 
• Participate in a 24/7 roster (which will be limited to daytime hours) and might impact weekends occasionally

Requirements:

• 4+ years professional experience with some past experience working as a consultant
• Experience in a specialised information security domain (e.g. networking, forensics, software engineering) 
• A foundational grounding in networks and network administration 
• Strong communication skills comfortable speaking to people at all levels from the board of director to technical teams.
• Strong writing skills able to produce high quality reports explaining complex technical issues in plain English 
• Proven ability and willingness to learn new subject matter quickly
• Mandarin and English fluency