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International Contract Bench, Incident Response (DFIR)

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Job Description
This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for an International Contract Bench, Incident Response (DFIR) based in United Kingdom.
As a contract Incident Response professional, you’ll support high-impact digital investigations involving sophisticated cyber threats and real-world security incidents. You’ll join an experienced team of forensic and incident response specialists working across a broad and evolving digital landscape. The role offers the opportunity to investigate live response data, identify malicious activity, and contribute to cases ranging from ransomware to nation-state threats. You’ll apply deep technical expertise across endpoint, network, cloud, and SaaS environments. The flexible contract model is designed for experienced investigators who want to stay technically engaged without committing to a traditional full-time on-call schedule. Your work will expand the team’s capacity to deliver high-quality investigations while fitting around your existing professional and personal commitments.
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.
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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.


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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.
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