Senior Cybersecurity Consultant

Cypfer Corp. - Denver, CO

Full-time - Senior

Remote - Denver, CO

About the position

The Senior Cybersecurity Consultant at CYPFER plays a crucial role in assisting clients with cybersecurity incident recovery, particularly in the aftermath of cyber-attacks. This position involves engaging with various stakeholders, utilizing advanced forensic tools, and leading recovery efforts to ensure clients can swiftly return to business operations. The consultant will also be responsible for mentoring junior team members and maintaining high standards of service delivery.

Responsibilities

• Engage in cybersecurity incident recovery tasks, interacting with insurance partners, legal counsel, incident response units, client executives, and technical teams.
• Utilize advanced tools and methodologies to collect and analyze forensic artifacts and images from affected systems.
• Perform in-depth triage of system configurations and forensic artifacts to assess compromise and support forensic teams.
• Decrypt, verify, and validate encrypted data.
• Restore, recover, troubleshoot, and rebuild physical and virtual Windows & Linux servers impacted by ransomware or other cybersecurity incidents.
• Design and deploy golden images using Acronis or similar solutions.
• Deploy, manage, and tune EDR/XDR products including SentinelOne, Crowdstrike, and Cortex.
• Collaborate and communicate with team members to ensure the highest quality of service.
• Lead small engagements and provide leadership as a senior member of larger teams.
• Administer advanced NGFW firewalls, review logs, create/edit policies, and troubleshoot connectivity issues.
• Draft clear, concise reports with minimal assistance.
• Participate in a rotating on-call schedule and work on weekends and outside normal business hours as needed.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in technical support, system administration, or a similar role.
• In-depth knowledge of the OSI Model and TCP/IP protocol suite.
• Experience in designing, installing, troubleshooting, and hardening Windows Servers.
• Ability to troubleshoot and recover MS Exchange and MS SQL servers.
• Experience in installing and configuring Linux operating systems.
• Expertise in managing virtualization environments, including vSphere, MS Hyper-V, and Nutanix.
• In-depth understanding and experience configuring next-generation firewalls.
• Expertise in storage technologies such as RAID, NAS, SAN, Fiber Channel, iSCSI, and NFS.
• Advanced working knowledge of enterprise backup and restore solutions.

Nice-to-haves

• Proactive risk assessment and troubleshooting abilities.
• Knowledge of DFIR, threat hunting, and cybersecurity principles.
• Extensive knowledge of EDR/XDR products.
• Experience in supporting hybrid and cloud environments - Azure, AWS, etc.
• Linux and Apple OS X troubleshooting experience.
• Industry certifications such as MCP, Network+, Security+, CCNP, or similar.

Benefits

• Base salary and multiple bonus opportunities.