Description
Nebius is seeking a deeply technical DFIR Lead to build and lead the company's global incident response capability. The successful candidate will recruit, grow and direct a team of DFIR Experts, owning response execution, chain of custody and quality across Nebius' cloud, infrastructure, and platform environments.
Responsibilities:
- Build and lead Nebius' global DFIR capability - select and mature DFIR tooling, and establish the playbooks and follow-the-sun operating model across EMEA, Asia, and APAC while hiring and developing a team of responders.
- Lead the technical response to major incidents hands-on - from escalation through containment, eradication, and recovery - and act as the final technical authority on the most complex cases.
- Personally conduct end-to-end forensic investigations across cloud, platform, and endpoint environments - log analysis at scale, host and network forensics, memory analysis, malware triage, and timeline reconstruction.
- Define and enforce consistent investigation standards across the team: severity and escalation criteria, cross-region handoff quality, and evidence handling that meets legal, regulatory, and forensic requirements.
- Partner with the SOC, SOC Automation, Threat Intelligence, Threat Hunting, and Platform Security teams to improve detection fidelity and reduce MTTD and MTTR.
- Serve as the technical voice of incident response to executive leadership, Legal, and Privacy - delivering clear, risk-based briefings, regulatory-ready documentation, and root cause analyses (RCA).
- Raise the team's technical bar through case reviews and hands-on mentoring, and drive lessons-learned into measurable improvements in controls and readiness.
Requirements:
- 7+ years of hands-on incident response and digital forensics, including technical leadership of large-scale, high-impact incidents.
- Deep knowledge of Windows and Linux internals, with proven disk and memory forensics capability.
- Strong cloud-native platform security: containers and Kubernetes, CI/CD, secrets management, cloud control planes, and IAM attack paths.
- Fluency in attacker TTPs (MITRE ATT&CK, including the Cloud and Containers matrices), and hands-on experience with EDR, SIEM, and forensic tooling.
- Strong scripting and data-analysis skills (Python, PowerShell, SQL/KQL) for investigation at scale.
- Proven ability to lead under pressure and make high-quality decisions with incomplete data.
- Clear, concise communicator capable of briefing executives, Legal, Privacy, and non-technical stakeholders.
- Working knowledge of spoken and written English.
Benefits & Perks:
- Competitive compensation
- Career growth and learning opportunities
- Flexibility and ownership
- Collaborative and innovative culture
- Opportunity to work on impactful AI projects
- International environment and talented teams