Cyber Response & Recovery Manager – German Speaker

Company: KPMG
Apply for the Cyber Response & Recovery Manager – German Speaker
Location: London
Job Description:

Overview

In this role you drive reactive DFIR for diverse clients as a case manager within the CRS team. You will lead medium-to-large incident response engagements, work hands-on on digital forensics, and help mature client IR capabilities. The role offers exposure to high‑scale incidents and opportunities to advance to leadership while developing delivery capability and tooling. You’ll collaborate across leadership, delivery, and client teams to deliver rapid, high-quality outcomes and to grow the practice.

Pay / Benefits

  • Access to nationally significant incidents
  • Investment in certifications and training
  • Opportunity to shape a rapidly growing capability
  • Exposure to government and critical infrastructure
  • Tier 1 incident response provider experience
  • Travel opportunities on short notice

Responsibilities

  • Manage and coordinate cyber security incidents for clients with the cyber response leadership team
  • Perform digital forensics on incident data (disk, memory, network, logs)
  • Maintain awareness of the threat landscape and advise clients accordingly
  • Lead development of in-house cyber-response tools
  • Assess and enhance client incident response capability maturity
  • Oversee project scoping, budgeting, risk management, and deliverables
  • Liaise with clients on delivery issues and bid/proposal responses
  • Contribute to stand-up and improvement of client incident response capabilities
  • Drive delivery excellence through SOPs, tooling, lab development, and orchestration

Key requirements

  • Strong background in cyber-security and incident response
  • Proven incident management experience across various cyber incidents
  • Experience leading rapid deployment IR teams
  • Excellent interpersonal, written and communication skills
  • Ability to guide structured IR processes from scoping to recovery across stages
  • Drafting and presenting to clients in a clear, professional manner
  • Willingness to travel on short notice and be on-call
  • German language proficiency for reports in German
  • Understanding of information security methodologies and IT technologies
  • Excellent communication (written and verbal)
  • Project management
  • Attention to detail
  • Strong IT and network knowledge (Windows/AD, Linux, Cisco)
  • Programming ability to develop tools (Python is preferred)
  • Network security/traffic/log analysis

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Posted: October 1st, 2026