Senior Consultant - Incident Response

About the role

As a Senior Consultant in Incident Response, you will join CPX's high‑impact DFIR team in Abu Dhabi, driving blue‑team operations and leading complex cyber investigations. You will work both independently and collaboratively to protect clients against advanced threats.

Key responsibilities

• Lead technical aspects of active incident response engagements.
• Conduct threat‑hunting activities supporting SOC and response missions.
• Perform host and network forensics on Windows, macOS and Linux systems.
• Execute digital forensic investigations and produce detailed technical reports.
• Communicate investigation progress and findings to technical and non‑technical stakeholders.
• Document processes, contribute to service‑improvement initiatives, and maintain the DFIR lab.
• Provide expertise in at least one vertical such as host forensics, network forensics, mobile forensics, malware analysis, OT/ICS response, cloud forensics or threat hunting.

Required profile

• 3‑5 years of hands‑on experience in incident response and digital forensics.
• Strong English communication and stakeholder‑management skills.
• Ability to work autonomously after an initial onboarding period.
• Team‑player attitude with humility and willingness to support colleagues.

Required skills

• Incident response management.
• Digital forensics techniques.
• Threat hunting.
• Host forensics (Windows, macOS, Linux).
• Network forensics and TCP/IP protocol analysis.
• Malware analysis.
• OT/ICS incident response.
• Cloud forensics.