Director, Incident Response

KPMG Advisory practice is at the forefront of transformation, offering excellent opportunities for individuals to advance their careers and expertise. In this ever-changing market environment, our professionals must be adaptable and thrive in a collaborative, team-driven culture. With a wealth of learning and career development opportunities, a world-class training facility, and leading market tools, we help our people continue to grow both professionally and personally.

Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise cyber incident response engagements, overseeing containment, investigation, recovery, remediation, and post-incident resilience efforts
• Advise executive leadership, boards, and key stakeholders during incidents, providing strategic guidance, crisis management, and cross-functional coordination
• Direct incident investigations, root cause analysis, and remediation initiatives while advancing incident response methodologies, playbooks, and service offerings
• Oversee, mentor, and QC high-performing incident response teams, driving operational excellence, service delivery, performance metrics, and continuous improvement
• Partner across cybersecurity, risk, privacy, and forensics teams while supporting business growth through client relationship management, solution development, and trusted advisory leadership
• Act with integrity, professionalism, and personal responsibility to uphold KPMG's respectful and courteous work environment

Requirements

• Minimum ten years of recent experience in incident response, threat management, digital forensics, security operations, or related cybersecurity disciplines
• Seven years leading incident response teams and large-scale response engagements
• CISSP, GCIH, GCFA, GCFE, CISM, or similar certifications preferred
• Bachelor's degree in business or related field from an accredited college/university is preferred; minimum of a high school diploma or GED required plus twelve years of relevant experience in incident response
• Strong presence in the digital forensics and incident response market, including conference speaking experience and established relationships within the law firm and insurance sectors is highly preferred
• Proven experience leading complex cyber incident investigations and response engagements using industry frameworks such as NIST and SANS, with expertise across digital forensics, SIEM, EDR/XDR platforms, automation tools, and Windows, Linux, macOS, cloud (Azure, AWS, GCP), networking, and IT/OT environments
• Demonstrated success building and maturing incident response and cyber resilience programs, coupled with strong executive presence, stakeholder management, and the ability to lead multiple high-priority engagements while supporting client relationships and business growth
• 33% travel requirement
• Must be authorized to work in the U.S. without the need for employment-based visa sponsorship now or in the future

Pay

California Salary Range: $169,005 - $370,530

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical and dental plans, vision coverage
• Disability and life insurance
• 401(k) plans
• Robust suite of personal well-being benefits to support mental health
• Personal Time Off per fiscal year, based on job classification, standard work hours, and years of service
• Two annual breaks where employees will not be required to use Personal Time Off (one at year end and one around the July 4th holiday)

Schedule

Standard work hours with holidays observed as per KPMG's annual calendar.