Manager, Incident Response

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage cyber incident response activities, including triage, containment, eradication, and recovery efforts for client incidents
• Oversee and coordinate incident investigations across cyber threats such as ransomware, data breaches, insider threats, and advanced persistent threats
• Lead and coordinate incident response engagements, including client communications, executive briefings, war-room facilitation, and cross functional stakeholder management (legal, forensics, privacy, communications, and leadership) during high impact events
• Oversee incident investigation and remediation, including root cause analysis, development of actionable improvement plans, and integration with broader cyber resilience practices
• Manage incident response delivery and performance, defining and tracking SLAs, metrics, reporting, and contributing to the enhancement of incident response playbooks, methodologies, and service offerings
• Collaborate and lead within the Cyber & Tech Risk practice, partnering across threat management, governance, risk, compliance, privacy, and technology risk teams while mentoring and developing incident response personnel
• Act with integrity, professionalism, and personal responsibility to uphold KPMG's respectful and courteous work environment

Qualifications

• Five years of experience in cybersecurity incident response or cyber threat management is required
• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university (or equivalent work experience); advanced degree a plus
• Proven experience leading cyber incident investigations and managing escalations in high pressure environments, applying established incident response frameworks (e.g., NIST, SANS) and breach response practices
• Hands on experience with security monitoring and response technologies, including SIEM, EDR, DLP, network security, and threat intelligence platforms
• Strong engagement and stakeholder management capabilities, with the ability to lead complex workstreams, balance competing priorities, and communicate effectively—including presenting to senior executives
• Demonstrated professionalism and judgment, exhibiting a high degree of integrity and the ability to manage sensitive and confidential matters