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DFIR Manager

  • Location:

    London

  • Sector:

    Incident Response / Digital Forensics

  • Job type:

    Permanent

  • Salary:

    £100,000+

  • Contact:

    Jess Bhard

  • Contact email:

    j.bhard@locke-mccloud.com

  • Contact phone:

    02038542230

  • Published:

    10 months ago

  • Expiry date:

    2023-12-16

​About the job

Role: DFIR Manager

Location: London (Hybrid)

Salary: £100,000+


Locke & McCloud has collaborated with a management consulting firm, with an office in Central London. They have a well-established DFIR team and are currently looking for their next DFIR Manager.


Main Responsibilities:

  • Leading a team of ambitious DFIR professionals dedicated to the management of active cybersecurity incidents.

  • Supervising cybersecurity incident response initiatives through close collaboration with consultants and clients.

  • Assisting consultants in enhancing their analytical, procedural, and communication skills.

  • Overseeing end-to-end client engagements.

  • Providing support to prominent partners, clients, and our lab to continuously enhance our service.

  • Design and improve policies for forensic and malware analyses.

  • Investigate cybersecurity incidents to determine the cause of a breach.


About you:

  • Digital forensics / incident response certification(s) such as SANS certifications (GCFA, GCIH etc), CREST certifications (CPIA, CRIA etc.), or equivalent.

  • Deep experience with most common operating systems (Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android) and their file systems (ext3/4, HFS+, APFS, NTFS, exFAT, etc.).

  • Proficiency with industry-standard DFIR toolsets, such as X-Ways, EnCase, Axiom, Cellebrite, FTK and Volatility.

  • Proficiency with database querying and analysis.

  • Experience with cloud infrastructures for the enterprise, such as Amazon Web Services, G Suite, Office 365, and Azure.

  • Experience with conducting log analysis of large datasets.

  • Experience with command line tools (grep, sed, awk, python, and other programming languages.

  • Familiarity with computer system hardware and software installation and troubleshooting.

  • Well-developed analytic, qualitative, and quantitative reasoning skills and demonstrated creative problem-solving abilities.

  • Proficiency with MS Office Applications, and familiarity with Windows, Macintosh and Linux operating systems.