Lead Consultant - FortiGuard Incident Response - Kuwait

Fortinet
Kuwait City
Workplace: HybridFull timeFunction: Consulting & AdvisoryExperience: 10+ yearsEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["Communication","Customer-facing","Problem solving"]

Lead and manage FortiGuard Incident Response engagements, mentoring junior analysts while serving as the primary client contact during investigations. Utilize FortiEDR tooling to rapidly detect threats, perform host-based and memory forensics, analyze logs, and produce executive-level reports. Role combines hands-on security analysis with customer-facing consultancy within a hybrid Kuwait City-based team.

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Lead Consultant - FortiGuard Incident Response - Kuwait

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Job Summary

Lead and manage FortiGuard Incident Response engagements, mentoring junior analysts while serving as the primary client contact during investigations. Utilize FortiEDR tooling to rapidly detect threats, perform host-based and memory forensics, analyze logs, and produce executive-level reports. Role combines hands-on security analysis with customer-facing consultancy within a hybrid Kuwait City-based team.
Location: Kuwait City
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Consulting & Advisory
Seniority: Sr. Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Lead IR engagements and mentoring/training junior analysts
  • •Serve as the primary client contact during investigations, delivering technical and executive updates
  • •Focus on process improvement for customer-facing incident response services
  • •Conduct host-based analysis and forensic functions on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X systems
  • •Review firewall, web, database, and other log sources to identify evidence and artifacts of malicious activity
  • •Leverage FortiEDR Platform to conduct investigations and rapidly detect threats
  • •Perform memory forensics and file analysis as needed
  • •Contribute to threat intelligence within the FortiGuard ecosystem
  • •Perform basic reverse engineering of threat actors’ tools
  • •Develop complete reports and presentations for executive and technical audiences
  • •Availability during nights/weekends as needed for IR engagements

Key Requirements

  • •Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field
  • •10+ years’ experience with incident response and/or forensics, or equivalent
  • •Strong consulting skills and ability to work under tight deadlines
  • •Experience with scripting languages (Shell, Ruby, Perl, Python, etc)
  • •Excellent written and verbal communication, and experience interfacing with customers
Experience:10+ yearsCybersecurityIncident response
Education:Bachelor's
Skills:CommunicationCustomer-facingProblem solving
Languages:English
Tech Stack:FortiEDRWindowsLinuxMacOSYARARegExEnCaseFTKX-WaysSIFTSplunkWiresharkTCPDumpIDA ProOllyDbgImmunity Debugger

Company Brief

Fortinet
Provides enterprise cybersecurity solutions including data protection, cloud security, network security, and user and entity behavior analytics to help organizations prevent insider threats, secure cloud and on-premises environments, and enforce data loss prevention policies.
Industry: Cybersecurity
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Growth: Established Company
Funding: Private Equity Backed
Headquarters: Austin, United States
Founded: 1994
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