Head of Cyber Incident Response

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About Nettitude

Nettitude is a LRQA Company. We’ve been around since 2003 and our focus has always been on excellence in cyber security. We have teams that offer world class services in red teaming, penetration testing, threat intelligence, research and development, detection and response, governance, risk, and compliance, and plenty more. Our business is global and so are our clients. We work closely with central banks, central and local government, critical national infrastructure, large retailers, and plenty more besides!

We’re an award winning provider of cyber security services and we’re are at a very exciting stage of development. We are looking for the right people to join us as we embrace the challenges thrown up by the advancements within the IT industry and within the threats faced. Nettitude will be at the forefront of this arena and we want to seek the right people to join the team and make it happen.

You can find out more about us at www.nettitude.com. If you want to review our research and tooling, then head on over to https://labs.nettitude.com

The role

We are going through an exceptional period of growth and have identified Cyber Incident Response as being a key global focus area for the future and beyond.

The Head of Incident Response will work within our Security & Network Operations Centre leading the Nettitude NCIRT Incident response function. They will play a leading role in developing, maturing and Improving the Cyber Incident Response Services across our growing customer base. You will be responsible for the development and management of the Incident Response team and will play a leading role in the Global development and evolution of providing best in class Incident Response Services to our growing Client base

The Head of Cyber Incident response will be Innovative, tenacious, forward thinking, proactive and confident with the ability to remain calm under pressure providing assurance to our clients when it’s needed the most. You will have an enthusiasm for learning, development and evolution of Services, products and people and be able to communicate clearly and effectively for strong collaboration to develop a positive influence on the wider MSS and Sales teams.

Location

This role is hybrid based within the UK, with a mixture of Home and Office based working for collaboration, team building, workshops and clinic days.

We can support working from across the UK. All applicants will require residence in the UK.

What you’ll be doing in your role:

• Leadership, Management, Ownership and Development of staff within the Cyber Incident Response department through effective leadership and coaching.
• Taking ownership & accountability for the delivery of Client Cyber Incident Response engagements and leading multiple engagements on a day-to-day basis.
• Lead and Develop the Cyber Incident Response portfolio of Retained and professional Service offerings in line with market trends, threats and client risks, helping to achieve revenue growth and expansion of the client base
• Design and manage the continual development of Netttiude’s in house cyber-response tools and seek areas of improvement by liaising with the team and scoping new projects, defining work streams, allocating resources and supervising progress.
• Act as the Technical lead for all Client Incident response engagements. Providing direction to Client and Internal technical resources ensuring best in class services delivery
• Actively identifying and progressing business development opportunities, as well as managing sales activities such as assisting the response to business opportunities, proposal writing and client presentations.
• Assist in establishing & maintaining processes to provide consistently high levels of Incident Response in a cost-effective manner.
• Assist the Cyber Response Engagement Manager and Cyber Response Incident Manager with the design, production & quality assurance of Client Incident and engagement reporting, that support both technical and C-suite audiences.
• Remain organized to meet all deadlines and ensure processes and tasks are carried out efficiently within the team
• Leading the threat hunting and attack path mapping programs.
• Deputise for the Global Head of Security Operations where required
• Participate where required in the department OOH on call Management Rota
  

Key Skills:

The following are the requirements for this role:

• Extensive experience of Managing Cyber Incident Response activities throughout their life cycle.
• Extensive experience managing Technical & Incident response teams to achieve successful Investigations and response activities
• Experience of Cyber Incident report writing and process documentation.
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills with a positive and proactive attitude towards Client issues.
• In-depth knowledge of Cyber Security Methodologies including the Cyber Kill Chain, MITRE ATT&CK and NIST.
• In depth knowledge of Cyber Threat intelligence, understanding evolving adversary behaviours and motivations
• In-depth hands on knowledge of Incident Response tooling, technical security systems, security architecture, security technology, and associated penetration testing and Security Event Management methodologies.
• Experience delivering Cyber Incident response training to both technical and non-technical audiences including C-Suite.
• Ability to confidently organise, lead & facilitate key stakeholder meetings & workshops as required
• Experience of managing technical teams, with the ability to mentor and motivate. Managing team workloads ensuring deadlines are met.
• Experience of managing Security Operations Centres and associated defensive tooling (SIEM, EDR etc)
• Assist the Cyber Response Engagement Manager and Cyber Response Incident Manager with the design, production & quality assurance of Client Incident and engagement reporting, that support both technical and C-suite audiences.
• Remain organized to meet all deadlines and ensure processes and tasks are carried out efficiently within the team
• Leading the threat hunting and attack path mapping programs.
• Deputise for the Global Head of Security Operations where required
• Participate where required in the department OOH on call Management process
  

What we offer:

We offer you an exciting and friendly working environment with a supportive team and regular colleague and client interactions. A competitive remuneration package will be negotiated with the right candidate.

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