Lead Consultant - FortiGuard Incident Response - Kuwait
Fortinet · Kuwait City · Incident Response
About this role
Fortinet is hiring a senior-level Security Analyst based in Kuwait City. The posting calls out experience with Python, Ruby, Splunk, Linux.
- Role
- Security Analyst
- Function
- security
- Level
- senior
- Track
- Individual contributor
- Employment
- Full-time
- Location
- Kuwait City
- Department
- Incident Response
- Posted
- May 15, 2026
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Job description
from Fortinet careersWe are looking for a Lead Consultant – FortiGuard Incident Response to work in a dynamic and exciting new position reporting to the Director of Operations for FortiGuard Security Consulting Services. The analyst will work directly with members of a world class incident response and forensics team. Our team is comprised of individuals with strong knowledge in malware hunting and analysis, reverse engineering, multiple scripting languages, forensics and threat actors’ TTPs. In this very hands-on customer facing role the consultant’s main objective is to lead and manage the incident response engagements and train/mentor other security consultants. Leveraging your in-depth understanding of the threat actors’ tactics, techniques, procedures and tools as well as our flagship FortiEDR tooling you will need to quickly glean situational awareness to provide guidance to the team members as well as to the client. In addition, from time to time the candidate will help to create threat research work products such as blogs and presentations. To be successful in this role the candidate must be possess strong consulting skills, deep technical skills and able to work under tight timelines.
Responsibilities:
- Lead IR engagements and mentoring/training junior analysts
- Serve as the primary contact for clients during investigations, delivering clear technical and executive-level updates.