Regional Technical Lead DFIR
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About the Role
Group-IB seeks a Regional Technical Lead DFIR in Riyadh to act as the primary technical anchor during complex cybersecurity incidents. The role involves leading technical direction, mentoring team members, and ensuring quality assurance in digital forensics and incident response.
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Responsibilities
- Provide continuous 24/7 service, including working on weekends
- Conduct onsite engagements to support clients directly in critical situations
- Apply hands on technical expertise in default forensics fields: Windows, Linux, and Memory
- Lead the technical direction during high stakes cybersecurity incidents
- Act as the initial escalation point for the team and clients
- Support the team in resolving challenging, complex, and non discrete problems
- Make sound decisions with incomplete data, balancing analytical depth versus speed of response
- Actively engage in academic research and encourage publication of papers and articles
- Stay up to date with continuous adaptation of new technologies and modern methodologies
- Actively drive the skill up and professional growth of DFIR team members
- Support Quality Assurance by reviewing technical documents, editing, and conducting review evaluations
- Coordinate seamlessly across different domains and cybersecurity disciplines
Requirements
- Previous 8 years experience in DFIR roles within cybersecurity organizations
- Strong knowledge of DFIR methodologies, tools, and industry standards
- Strong stakeholder management and interdepartmental collaboration skills
- High level decision making skills in dynamic and high pressure environments
- Proficiency in process management including process design and optimization
- Fluent in English
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About The Role
- The Technical Lead will act as the primary technical anchor and initial escalation point during complex cybersecurity incidents.
- Led by a Regional Head, this role is deeply rooted in 24/7 technical excellence and cross domain coordination.
- You will guide the technical direction of the team, provide extensive quality assurance, and drive the skill up and professional growth of team members.
- This is a highly specialized, purely technical career path. It explicitly does not include team management, disciplinary leadership functions, or the responsibility to drive the overarching strategic vision of the DFIR teams.
Your Mission
- Provide continuous 24/7 service, which includes working on weekends.
- Conduct onsite engagements to support clients directly in critical situations.
- Apply hands on technical expertise in default forensics fields: Windows, Linux, and Memory.
- Operate under the strategic guidance and leadership of a Regional Head.
- Lead the technical direction during high stakes cybersecurity incidents.
- Act as the initial escalation point for the team and the clients.
- Support the team in resolving challenging, complex, and non discrete problems.
- Make sound decisions with incomplete data, constantly balancing analytical depth versus the speed of response.
- Actively engage in academic research and encourage the publication of papers and articles.
- Stay up to date with the continuous adaptation of new technologies and modern methodologies.
- Maintain a deep understanding of emerging tech, such as integrating and properly automating non deterministic systems like LLMs into the investigative workflow.
- Provide research advisory to guide the team's investigative and academic efforts.
What We Are Looking For
- Previous 8 years experience in DFIR roles within cybersecurity organizations.
- Strong knowledge of DFIR methodologies, tools, and industry standards.
- Strong stakeholder management and interdepartmental collaboration skills.
- High level decision making skills in dynamic and high pressure environments.
- Proficiency in process management including process design and optimization.
What Sets You Apart
- Fluent in English; proficiency in an additional language is highly preferred.
- Experience in intelligence tradecraft across cyber and other domains is highly desirable.
- A proven track record in academic research is preferred.
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