International Contract Bench, Incident Response (DFIR)

Team: IT

Location: United Arab Emirates

Commitment: Full-time

Workplace Type: remote

Accountabilities

• Perform incident response and digital forensic investigations involving active threat activity and security breaches.
• Analyze live response data and forensic artifacts to identify malicious activity, determine attack methods, and support investigations.
• Investigate Windows, macOS, and Linux environments using appropriate forensic techniques and tooling.
• Analyze business email compromise (BEC), account takeover, and other identity-related incidents.
• Conduct network analysis to identify suspicious activity, attacker behavior, and relevant indicators of compromise.
• Support investigations across cloud-native environments, including AWS, GCP, Azure, and SaaS applications.
• Apply threat intelligence and current knowledge of adversary techniques to investigative work.
• Contribute high-quality analysis to cases involving threats such as ransomware and sophisticated or nation-state activity.
• Share investigative perspectives, technical expertise, and feedback that help strengthen and evolve the incident response practice.
• Take on incident response assignments for a minimum of several hours per week, according to your availability and the needs of active investigations.

Requirements:

• Professional experience responding to cyber threat activity as an Incident Response consultant, SOC analyst, or in a closely related role.
• Strong understanding of Windows, macOS, and Linux fundamentals and their relevant forensic artifacts.
• Experience with digital forensics, business email compromise investigations, and network analysis.
• Existing knowledge of cloud-native investigations across AWS, GCP, and Azure, or a strong willingness and ability to develop expertise in these areas.
• Strong investigative mindset with a consistent focus on accuracy, evidence quality, and thorough analysis.
• Ability to distinguish legitimate user activity from threat actor behavior based on technical evidence and investigative context.
• Strong curiosity and interest in threat intelligence, emerging attack techniques, and evolving cyber threats.
• Ability to work independently while contributing effectively to an experienced incident response team.
• Willingness to bring your perspective and technical voice to help shape investigative practices.
• Availability of at least a few hours per week to support incident response work.
• Ability to balance contract incident response work with existing professional commitments, where permitted by your current employer.

Benefits:

• Flexible contract-based engagement designed to accommodate existing professional and personal commitments.
• Opportunity to work on live incident response investigations without committing to a traditional full-time on-call schedule.
• Exposure to complex investigations involving ransomware, account compromise, cloud environments, and sophisticated threat activity.
• Opportunity to work alongside an experienced team of incident response and digital forensics professionals.
• Continued hands-on exposure to emerging threats, investigative techniques, and cloud-native forensics.
• Flexible workload that allows you to take on assignments according to your availability and the needs of active cases.