KPMG UK
Cyber Response & Recovery Manager
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Cyber Response & Recovery Manager
Cyber Response & Recovery Manager (Remediation Focus)
Base Location: London/Manchester (with a nationwide network of 20 offices: KPMG Careers)
Why Join KPMG as a Cyber Response & Recovery Manager?
The Cyber Response & Recovery Manager will thrive within KPMG’s Cyber Advisory practice, reporting to the cyber response leadership team. Cyber security remains a critical investment area for KPMG, as clients face escalating threats such as:
- Ransomware
- Destructive malware
- Business email compromise (BEC)
- Active Directory compromise
- Cloud compromises
- Advanced network intrusions
In these high-stakes scenarios, clients rely on KPMG not only for investigation and containment, but also for secure recovery, service restoration, re-infection risk reduction, and long-term resilience enhancement.
This hands-on role focuses primarily on the critical post-breach phase—restoring business services safely and securely—while collaborating with: ✔ Incident response leads ✔ Forensic teams ✔ Legal advisors ✔ Crisis management teams ✔ Technical and business stakeholders
Core Responsibilities
You will assist clients in:
- Stabilising compromised environments.
- Eliminating attacker persistence.
- Restoring identity and infrastructure services.
- Supporting patching and vulnerability remediation.
- Advising on secure rebuild patterns.
- Reviewing and redesigning network architecture for resilience.
- Establishing isolated recovery environments.
- Defining phased recovery and security improvement roadmaps.
Key Requirements
This role demands strong infra, sysadmin, and cybersecurity expertise across: 🔹 Windows/Linux systems 🔹 Active Directory 🔹 Virtualisation environments 🔹 Networking technologies 🔹 Cloud platforms 🔹 Enterprise infrastructure
Candidates must excel at translating technical challenges into clear recovery plans, accessible to both technical and executive audiences.
Role & Opportunity Overview
KPMG is one of the UK’s elite Tier 1 cyber incident response firms, offering exposure to high-impact incidents spanning diverse sectors. Key benefits of the role: ✅ High-profile exposure to complex cyber events. ✅ Development of hands-on recovery expertise and incident leadership. ✅ Post-incident support through cyber resilience, readiness, and transformation engagements, including: • Developing recovery playbooks • Designing isolated recovery environments • Assessing AD and infrastructure resilience • Enhancing ransomware recovery planning • Improving backup & restore strategies • Defining cyber security roadmaps
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⬆️ Alongside direct engagements, you’ll contribute to KPMG’s internal recovery scaling, including: ✔ SOPs (Standard Operating Procedures) ✔ Playbook development ✔ Toolkits & automation frameworks ✔ Lab environments & architectural recovery models ✔ Team upskilling initiatives
Flexibility & Expectations
Cyber incidents demand urgent responses; this role requires: ✅ Flexible working hours to match incident priorities. ✅ Short-notice travel for deployments of two to three weeks.
Role Summary: Ideal Candidate Skills
This position is not purely for proactive threat hunting; rather, it’s a leadership-focused recovery role requiring:
✔ Deep practical experience in critical infrastructure (Windows/Linux, AD, Networking). ✔ Hands-on remediation skills in ransomware, AD compromise, and network intrusions. ✔ Ability to lead multi-strand recovery workstreams under pressure. ✔ Stakeholder management expertise (balancing executive and technical audiences). ✔ Project & delivery acumen, including: • Phased recovery planning • Roadmap development • Compliance reporting
Key Responsibilities
1. Incident Response Leadership
- Lead recovery operations: Manage cyber incidents from stabilisation to long-term remediation, coordinating with IR, forensics, legal, client IT, and senior stakeholders.
- Translate findings into recovery actions: Convert investigative learnings into practical remediation tasks and rebuild guidelines.
- Gain ransomware attribution & behavioural insights, adjusting recovery strategies accordingly.
2. Hands-on Remediation & Recovery
- Preserve & validate infrastructure integrity (active Directory restores, service hardening), ensuring attacker artifacts are eliminated.
- Patch and remediate vulnerabilities targeted or compromised during the breach.
- Reconfigure security controls (network segmentation, AD privileges, security tool changes) to reduce reinfection risk.
- Restore business-critical services, utilising isolated recovery environments and phased rollout approaches.
3. Architecture & Strategic Implementation
- Redesign network architectures to address post-breach vulnerabilities.
- Define scalable recovery standards for future incidents (e.g., backup validation, restore sequencing).
- Leadership in cloud-native recovery strategies if applicable to client infrastructure.
4. Project & Cultural Leadership
- Manage end-to-end recovery engagements, including proposal writing, client reporting, and risk assessments.
- Mentor junior team members in recovery techniques.
- Collaborate with KPMG’s broader cyber response ecosystem, fostering internal knowledge.
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Professional Background
The ideal profile encompasses: ✔ Proven incident response journey—guiding clients through advanced network intrusions, ransomware decryption, or service outage envelopes. ✔ Extensive threat landscape awareness, particularly ransomware Asian TTPs and insider threat avoidance. ✔ Solid grasp of: • IT governance frameworks (e.g., ISO 2700x, CIS controls). • Modern threat hunting using SOAR or EDR platforms. • Forensic readiness (log collection, artifact preservation).
Technical & Analytical Alignments
🔧 Operational Core: System administration (Windows/Linux/AD), network architecture, cloud provisioning (Azure/AWS/GCP), and scripting (PowerShell, Python, Bash). 🔧 Remediation: Managing patch pipelines, vulnerability scans, and incident attribution reports.
Soft Skills (Equal Importance)
🗣️ Communicator & Stakeholder Manager: Articulate technical complexities for executives without jargon. 🧠 Problem Solver under Pressure: Navigate indefinite ambiguity with structured workflows and�️ iterative solutions. 📋 Documentation-Oriented: Translate recovery activities into clear, audit-ready deliverables.
Required Qualifications & Security Clearance
Essentials
✔ Current UK National Security Vetting (SC/DV) clearance or the authority/seek via KPMG for acquisition. ✔ Technical proficiency to engineering-level across Windows/Linux/cloud infra.
Experience Expectations
🔸 Min 5 years managing cyber recovery engagements, with: • Direct experience with ransomware decryption attempts. • Inclusion of ransomware negotiation (or ransom threat mitigators). 🔸 Broad risk-reduction tooling knowledge: CIS platforms, SIEM usability, backup verification tools.
KPMG ESG & Diversity Initiatives
We welcome applications across: 🔹 ITs Her Future Women in Tech → link 🔹 Workability – Disability Friendly Hiring → link
For further details: ✅ Role focus: KPMG Consulting Cyber Response ✅ Applying to KPMG: Experienced Professional Portal ✅ Application Advice: Interview Tips & KPMG Competencies
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