Incident Response Consultant

Incident Response Consultant 

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About The Role: 

Are you a people person with cybersecurity expertise? Are you able to provide exceptional support to customers in their greatest time of need? Do you want to influence real change? Do you want to be part of the solution? Then join Pondurance in ensuring every organization is able to detect and respond to cyber threats – regardless of size, industry, or current in-house capabilities. 

As part of the Incident Response team at Pondurance, your focus will be supporting the IR lifecycle and providing indicators to the SOC that will assist in enhanced detection capabilities of network, log, and host data. You will utilize your technical chops to analyze intrusions, detect incidents, and assist in responding to our clients. You must be capable of working in a high stress IR situation and effectively navigate through the IR lifecycle. You will be responsible for leading the technical analysis of an IR investigation as well as communicating effectively and providing off-hours support as needed. 

Responsibilities:

• Support the IR lifecycle from triage to investigation, through containment and eradication
• Perform forensic analysis, implement incident response procedures, and analyze malware as it presents itself
• Identify attack vectors, threat tactics and attacker techniques
• Provide reports, both written and verbal to clients
• Contribute to process development and documentation in regard to the IR lifecycle 
• Collaborate with the SOC to enhance detection capabilities based on indicators detected in an IR engagement 

Technologies:

• Strong understanding of Windows, Mac and Linux operating systems and how to conduct forensics on each type of system
• Ability to leverage various tools and technology during an investigation to determine the scope of the compromise

Knowledge and Skills: 

• Bachelor’s degree or 1 to 3 years of experience in a related field 

• Experience performing host and/or network-based forensics, malware analysis, and handling ransomware investigations
• Strong understanding of types of cyber-attacks, emerging threats, and ability to respond in a tactical and strategic manner
• Proven experience with scripting languages
• Ability to communicate technical problems, vulnerability, and risk to clients
• Ability to make sound decisions and possess excellent problem-solving skills

Who we are:

At Pondurance we embrace, educate, and protect people by helping make our world a better and safer place. We believe in inviting good people into our company who are driven to become great!  

Every person at Pondurance is encouraged to focus and grow in their individual areas of interest, passion, and career path. We have accessible leaders as Mentors who believe “None of us are as smart as all of us” (R. Pelletier). 

We believe everyone has the freedom to be themselves, especially at work and so we embrace, support, and celebrate each other. Each one of us influences our company’s direction through speaking up, you have a voice and we want you to use it.

Do you want to be a part of something different? Do you want to influence real change? Do you want to be part of the solution? Then join us in redefining the security and cyber risk landscape.

What We Offer:

The opportunity to apply your expertise, take on new challenges, and help customers address their biggest security objectives.

An inclusive culture of teamwork that embraces the diversity of our people and communities in which we work.

Some of the corporate benefits (there are more) for full-time employees include:

• Medical, dental, vision, disability, FSA, HSA, life and AD&D insurance, 401(k) Plan. 
• Time off: PTO, sick, holiday, & parental leave details are available
• Money: We provide competitive compensation packages based on the market and your overall credentials.

Although this is a remote role, if you live close by, you’ll have access to our office locations: McLean, VA or Indianapolis, IN.

To promote a healthy and safe work community we require background and drug screenings as part of our hiring process. Details of our process will be provided upon request.

We are an equal opportunity employer focused on celebrating diversity and inclusion. We believe that each individual should be treated equally without regard to race, color, identity, national origin, protected veteran status, religion, sex including sexual orientation and gender identity, disability, or any other characteristic protected by law.