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Digital Risk- Cyber Resilience & Incident Response – Senior
Job purpose:
Senior in the Risk Advisory team to work on Incident Response, Cyber Resilience, and Crisis Management engagements for global clients.
You will be responsible for supporting incident response operations, resilience assessments, and recovery preparedness activities in alignment with EY quality standards. You will work closely with client SOC and security teams to enhance detection, response, and recovery capabilities.
You will leverage scenario-based adversarial simulations (Glasswing-aligned approach) to assess breach readiness and validate incident response effectiveness against real-world attack scenarios.
You will play a key role in strengthening organizational resilience through improved response frameworks, scenario testing, and preparedness exercises.
Your client responsibilities:
Support incident response activities including triage, investigation, containment, and recovery
Perform incident response readiness assessments and gap analysis
Conduct breach simulations and tabletop exercises using real-world attack scenarios (Glasswing-aligned approach)
Validate response effectiveness and identify improvement areas
Support development and testing of Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery plans
Work with SOC teams to enhance detection and response capabilities
Develop incident response playbooks and escalation procedures
Support crisis management and resilience program development
Facilitate workshops and awareness sessions for client teams
Perform root cause analysis and document lessons learned
Assist in proposal development and capability building initiatives
Provide regular status updates to stakeholders
Your people responsibilities:
Demonstrate teamwork and ownership across engagements
Mentor junior members on incident response and resilience frameworks
Contribute to internal frameworks and capability development
Participate in knowledge sharing and organizational initiatives
Mandatory skills:
Strong experience in Incident Response (L2/L3 exposure preferred)
Knowledge of SOC operations and threat detection mechanisms
Experience handling cybersecurity incidents and investigations
Strong understanding of cyber resilience, BCP, and DR frameworks
Experience in conducting tabletop exercises and simulations
Familiarity with adversarial simulation approaches (Glasswing-aligned)
Knowledge of SIEM, EDR, SOAR tools
Understanding of MITRE ATT&CK framework
Experience in log analysis and forensic basics
Certifications such as CEH, GCIH, GCIA, CISSP preferred
BE/BTech/MCA with 4–8 years of relevant experience
Preferred skills:
Experience in financial services or regulated industries
Exposure to cloud incident response
Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
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