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Head of IR & DFIR | Founding Leadership Role

Up Security (Formerly Wake-up Cyber)

Israel

Onsite · Lead/Principal · Full-time

The Role

Establishes and leads a new IR and digital forensics practice, remaining hands-on in leading complex incidents, conducting investigations across endpoint, cloud, identity and Active Directory environments, and defining methodologies and tooling for customer-facing services.

Skills & Experience

Requires strong hands-on incident response and forensic investigation experience, familiarity with EDR and SIEM platforms, understanding of attacker TTPs and MITRE ATT&CK, and ideally prior consulting, CERT/CSIRT or multi-customer exposure plus cloud IR and malware analysis skills.

Who It Suits

Suits a senior IR/DFIR practitioner with a builder mindset, ready to create a practice from scratch, lead client-facing engagements, recruit a team and shape business direction under direct executive access.

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Listed: 29 Sep 2026