Job Title:  Deputy Manager | Incident Response & Handling | Delhi | Cyber Defense & Resilience

T&T - Cyber 

Incident Response  

Gurgaon

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Your work profile

As a Deputy Manager in our Cyber Team you’ll build and nurture positive working relationships with teams and clients with the intention to exceed client expectations. The role requires deep compromise assessment and DFIR capability to identify whether an adversary has gained access, established persistence, abused identity, or moved laterally across the enterprise, while also supporting response engineering, IR lab capability, and security architecture improvements from an investigation lens.

Preferred Knowledge

The role requires strong expertise in evidence collection, forensic triage, host and identity review, timeline reconstruction, persistence analysis, lateral movement review, and malware triage across Windows, network, cloud, and hybrid identity environments. The individual should be comfortable going beyond dashboards and performing structured scoping and analysis using endpoint, identity, and forensic tooling.

Candidate should also bring practical engineering capability to support IR lab buildout, telemetry onboarding, automation, investigation infrastructure setup, secure analysis environments, and repeatable validation workflows. Active Directory and identity security knowledge, including CRTP / CRTE aligned exposure.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Conduct compromise assessments to identify adversary access, persistence, lateral movement, privilege escalation, and identity abuse across enterprise environments.
• Perform host, network, cloud, and identity forensic triage including evidence collection, artefact review, timeline reconstruction, and case documentation.
• Lead evidence acquisition activities across disk, memory, endpoint, cloud, and enterprise-wide sources while maintaining evidence handling discipline.
• Use and operationalize tools such as Velociraptor, KAPE, Eric Zimmerman tools, Timesketch, Plaso, Volatility, Wireshark, Zeek, YARA, and Sigma where applicable.
• Investigate persistence mechanisms, suspicious authentication flows, Kerberos misuse, delegation abuse, AD trust relationships, and hybrid identity artefacts.
• Perform malware triage and malware analysis to determine behavior, persistence, likely impact, and defensive recommendations.
• Support Active Directory and identity compromise assessments using tools and techniques such as BloodHound, PingCastle, Purple Knight, PowerView, LDAP, trusts analysis, and AD CS review.
• Build and improve IR lab and response engineering capability including forensic workstations, secure investigation environments, telemetry integrations, automation scripts, and validation environments.
• Develop automation using Python, PowerShell, Bash, APIs, parsers, dashboards, and enrichment workflows to support compromise assessment and DFIR activities.
• Translate forensic findings into ATT&CK mapping, control validation, rule improvement opportunities, BAS scenarios, and purple-team style outputs where relevant.
• Support security architecture and enterprise hardening discussions focused on identity security, telemetry quality, logging coverage, and investigation readiness.

Required Knowledge

• Overall experience of at least 6+ years in cyber security with strong hands-on exposure to compromise assessment, DFIR, incident investigations, and response engineering.
• Demonstrated experience with evidence collection, forensic triage, timeline building, persistence analysis, lateral movement review, and identity compromise assessment.\
• Strong knowledge of Windows forensics, endpoint artefacts, event logs, registry, process lineage, scheduled tasks, services, startup persistence, and memory analysis concepts.
• Strong experience with Active Directory and identity investigations including Kerberos, delegation, trusts, LDAP, Entra ID, ADFS, hybrid identity logs, AD CS, and privileged relationship analysis.
• Experience using SIEM, EDR, network telemetry, cloud logs, and identity logs with the ability to investigate beyond dashboards and alerts.
• Strong troubleshooting and engineering capability using Python, PowerShell, Bash, APIs, platform integrations, telemetry onboarding, and investigation infrastructure setup.
• Experience in malware triage, YARA, memory forensics exposure, detection content alignment, or reverse engineering support is strongly preferred.
• Ability to produce structured forensic summaries, methodology write-ups, assessment reports, executive-ready findings, and technical remediation recommendations.

Required Qualification

Bachelor’s / Master’s Degree

Certifications

Certifications like GCFA, GNFA, GREM, CHFI, GCFR, GCIH, ECIH, CRTP, CRTE, SC-300, AZ-500, or equivalent are preferred.

Abilities

• Strong English verbal, written communication, report writing, and presentation skills.
• Ability to manage complex investigative workstreams with structured thinking and attention to detail.
• Capable of operating in challenging and fast-paced environments while maintaining evidence quality and investigation discipline.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving capability across enterprise technology stacks.
• Able to combine deep technical investigation with practical engineering and architecture support.

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