Incident Response Lead
Location: Remote
Job Type: Full Time / Permanent
The Incident Response Lead will be primarily responsible for coordinating and leading investigations and response activities after data breaches or cyberattacks and handle post-incident reviews. The Incident Response Lead will work closely with Project Management, Systems Engineering, and Cloud Services teams in recovery activities. This position will operate in a fast-paced environment and require strong communication and management skills. Reports to: VP of Security Solutions.
Primary Accountabilities: • Coordinate and lead investigations and response activities with IR analysts • Work with and coordinate response activities with infrastructure team(s) involved in recovery activities • Coordinate and lead forensics acquisition efforts • Ensure all time spent is appropriately placed into the IR management solution on the security side • Participate in the creation, and maintenance Incident Response Standards, Policies, Procedures, Guidelines, and Checklists • Provide feedback to current process, procedures, and find ways to actively become better • Hold Post-Incident reviews to ensure that we continue to improve • Collecting all IOCs into a single location to ensure we can re-use these IOCs • Creating scripts, tools, and/or methods to enhance current services and processes • When not doing IR actively, or the roles above: • Help Threat Hunting engagements across all clients • Help develop new automated ways to threat hunt clients • Create, and provide training to Analysts, Engineers, etc. for how to improve current services • Threat Research that is pushed out to the team • Mentor SOC staff.
Preferred Experience / Skills: • A minimum 5+ years’ experience in SOC / NOC / Blue Team / Red Team / Purple Team environments. • A minimum 2+ years’ experience in Incident Response Methodologies, with hands-on Incident Response experience. • Experience in Threat Analysis • Experience in Threat identification • Direct system remediation • Experience with EDR solutions • Experience with log collection • Experience in running high stress incident calls • Experience in creating plans for malware eradication • Strong communication skills • Some heavy lifting may be required • Some infrequent travel (up to 15%) may be required.
Certifications: We value and respect the following certifications: CFCE, CCE, GCFA, GCFE, GNFA, GREM, GASF, GCIH, EnCE, ACE but they are not required for the role.
Benefits: • Health, Dental and Vision Insurance • Life Insurance • Short-term and Long-term Disability Insurance • Retirement planning options • PTO + paid holidays • Annual bonuses • Remote work opportunities • Paid Training • 401(k) • 401(k) matching • Referral program • Retirement plan • Yearly Bonus
Schedule: • 8 hour shift • Monday to Friday