Cyber Response & Recovery – Senior Manager
KPMG UK
United Kingdom
The Role
This senior position sits within a cyber response and risk consulting practice, leading teams through active security incidents while conducting digital forensics across disk, memory, network, and log sources. Beyond incident work, the role involves helping clients mature their response capabilities through playbooks, tabletop exercises, and tooling development.
Skills & Experience
Candidates require a strong technical background in incident response and digital forensics, including experience with volatile memory, network packet analysis, and log investigation. Leadership experience managing practitioners and case managers is essential, alongside familiarity with runbook development, response maturity assessments, and lab or platform orchestration.
Who It Suits
This role suits an experienced incident response professional ready to step into a leadership position within a growing practice. Someone equally comfortable hands-on in a live incident and advising clients strategically will thrive here, particularly those who want to shape team capability and methodology at a senior level.
Typical advertised salary for Incident Response roles in United Kingdom: £53,000–£85,000 (median £68,000 — from 24 recent listings analysed by Forensic Focus).
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