Title: Consultant Incident Response Lead
Location: Bangalore
Shift: Regular business hours with participation in 24x7 On-Call Rotation for high-priority security incidents
Experience: Around 7+ years in Cyber Security / Incident Response or related discipline
POSITION DESCRIPTION
The Incident Response Lead is part of CGI's Global Security Operations Center (GSOC), which provides 24/7 security monitoring, threat detection, and incident response capabilities across the organization.
As a senior member of GSOC, the Incident Response Lead is responsible for leading the technical response to complex cybersecurity incidents, coordinating investigations, and driving containment, eradication, and recovery activities. Acting as the technical authority during major incidents, the role provides Incident leadership in GSOC while ensuring investigations are conducted using industry best practices and forensically sound methodologies.
The Incident Response Lead works closely with Security Monitoring, Detection Engineering, Threat Intelligence, Security Engineering, IT Operations,
and business stakeholders to minimize organizational risk, improve incident response capabilities, and strengthen CGI's overall cyber resilience.
POSITION RESPONSIBILITIES
Key Responsibilities
. Lead the technical response to cybersecurity incidents, coordinating containment, eradication, recovery, and post incident activities.
. Perform and oversee digital forensic investigations using industry standard and forensically sound methodologies, maintaining appropriate evidence handling and chain of custody.
. Develop and continuously improve incident response plans, playbooks, procedures, and operational standards. Conduct malware analysis, including static and agile analysis, and perform basic reverse engineering where required.
. Collaborate with Threat Intelligence, Detection Engineering, Security Monitoring, and Security Engineering teams to improve detection capabilities and operational readiness.
📌 Incident Response Lead (Bengaluru)
🏢 CGI
📍 Bengaluru