Cyber Incident Manager - Contract

URGENT CONTRACT ROLE

12 Months - Fully remote

My client is looking for a passionate Cyber Incident Manager who can support the team for 12 months.

Duties:

• Being the point of contact to drive all cyber incidents managed by Cyber Defense Team
• Create incident reports
• Keep incidents status up to date through regular updates
• Oversee all aspects of incident management process from evaluation to resolution
• Maintain daily communication with analyst team
• Drive incidents to a conclusion based on SLAs and criticality level
• Coordinate the activities of analysts and parties external to the Cyber Defense Team involved incident response
• Define improvement over incident playbooks
• Prepare weekly incident status report
• Monitor intelligence sources to maintain situational awareness of cyber threat landscape

Requirements and Skills:

• Familiarity with risk management and controls frameworks, cyber kill chain and NIST Incident response life cycle
• 10+ years of experience with information security related activities
• Experience in dealing with cyber incidents
• Proven experience in security operation and monitoring
• Working knowledge about SIEM architecture
• Working knowledge of Splunk, Elastic Stack, or industry equivalent at a user level
• Being able to work with a diverse set of stockholders in the organization from technical through board level. Strong report writing and communication skills
• Strong written and verbal communication in English
• Understanding crisis management, business continuity and disaster recovery procedures
• Ability to understand technical topics dealing with technical teams and explain and present them to management level executives
• Being able to handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment to proceed high priority tasks to a resolution
• Relevant certifications such as CGIH, CISM
• Bachelor in Computer Science, Computer Security, or other engineering or IT discipline
• Understanding of security governance, risk and compliance
• Familiarity with related publications such as: NIST 800-61 (incident handling), NIST 800-30 (risk assessment), NIST 800-52 (controls)