Overview
At ProtekCyber, our Incident Response Consultants are the frontline defenders — leading investigations, guiding recovery, and delivering calm in the chaos of cyber incidents. You’ll work directly with clients across the UK to uncover intrusions, hunt active threats, and restore security and trust. From business email compromises to advanced persistent threats, you’ll play a critical role in containing and eradicating threats while building long-term cyber resilience.
24/7
Security Operations
1-5+
Years Experience
Hybrid
Work Model
Join the Frontline of Cyber Defense
Help businesses bounce back stronger by delivering fast, decisive, and intelligent incident response
Client Interaction & Communication
- Act as a technical lead during high-pressure client engagements, providing clear updates, calm direction, and confidence throughout.
- Translate technical threat data into plain-English insights and recommendations.
- Provide structured situation reports and final incident reports tailored to stakeholder needs.
Innovation & Improvement
- Contribute to the development of in-house tooling, detection logic (YARA, Sigma, Snort), and response playbooks.
- Share insights with the wider team to inform detection tuning and threat intelligence development.
- Continuously refine our incident response methodology to reflect evolving threats and client needs.
Knowledge Sharing & Collaboration
- Actively mentor junior team members through shadowing, feedback, and knowledge transfer during live engagements.
- Deliver internal training sessions and workshops to uplift team capabilities in digital forensics, threat hunting, and incident containment.
- Contribute to cross-functional retrospectives post-incident to capture lessons learned and drive process improvements.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Lead and support incident response investigations across endpoint, network, and cloud environments.
- Conduct live compromise assessments and forensic analysis during active incidents.
- Perform threat hunting using EDR tools to trace attacker activity and prevent lateral movement.
- Identify malware, persistence mechanisms, and attacker tools — including in-memory and stealth techniques.
- Collaborate with our Cyber Threat Intelligence and SOC teams to close the loop between technical findings and actionable intelligence.
- Recommend secure recovery strategies that balance thorough investigation with rapid operational restoration.
- Triage and prioritize incoming incidents based on severity, business impact, and threat landscape.
- Analyze log data from diverse sources (e.g., firewalls, proxies, cloud services, SIEM) to reconstruct attacker timelines and behaviors.
- Reverse-engineer suspicious files or scripts to determine functionality and threat level.
- Develop detection rules and custom alerts to identify early signs of compromise across client environments.
What We’re Looking For
- Hands-on experience leading cyber incident investigations (host, network, and/or cloud).
- Background in digital forensics, threat hunting, or SOC operations.
- Strong knowledge of attacker tactics (MITRE ATT&CK framework), malware behaviours, and detection logic.
- Ability to manage stressful, time-sensitive situations with professionalism and clarity.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present findings to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Experience writing detection signatures (YARA, Sigma, Snort).
- Familiarity with memory forensics and advanced persistent threats.
Why ProtekCyber?
- Work across real client environments — from SMEs to public sector
- Access structured training, paid certs, and clear promotion paths
- Join a collaborative, consultancy-first culture where you're trusted and empowered
- Enjoy flexible working, bonuses, private medical, and team retreats
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