Senior Incident Response Engineer

Are you looking for a unique Cyber Security role whereby you will provide key insight and research into new threats, exploits, and mitigation techniques?

Do you consider yourself an innovator in threat detection?

About the role: You will be entrusted as the senior most technical member of the incident response team for our global information security organization.

About the team: This global team supports the Information Security department’s goals and objectives by addressing escalations and evaluating technology controls, providing key insight and research in new threats, exploits, and mitigation techniques.

Key Responsibilities

• Helping improve the resilience and readiness of security protection and mitigation technologies and processes which ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the organization’s assets, information, data, and IT services in an efficient manner.
• Developing and executing security incident response plans, conducting cyber forensic investigations on physical endpoints and cloud platforms, and independently leading the full life‑cycle of incident response investigations of all reported security incidents.
• Developing comprehensive incident reports and investigation summaries; collecting intelligence to proactively detect and identify high‑confidence threats to the brand, service infrastructure, and enterprise users and systems.
• Analyzing/validating security control requirements and tuning, defining mitigation rules, scripting and performing changes or mitigating attacks, and assisting with troubleshooting support related to any issues that may arise from security detection or protection technologies.
• Assisting with reviewing existing tools, applications, and processes to help strengthen and optimize current security capabilities, and identifying any gaps or technical solutions to further enhance the team’s effectiveness.
• Leading analysis and review of security events for anomalous activity, collaborating with respective peer groups to take appropriate action to safeguard company information assets against current and foreseen threats.

Requirements

• Possess advanced knowledge of security for cloud‑agnostic infrastructure.
• Have the ability to conduct forensic and incident response investigations; understanding of incident response and risk mitigation workflow and planning.
• Be able to analyze security events for anomalous activity and identify emerging security threats.
• Be able to develop and implement security improvement and remediation programs.
• Possess vulnerability assessment, exploitation techniques, malware reverse engineering, threat analysis, and security threat and incident reporting skills.
• Be able to participate in investigation and navigation in cloud and web‑based environments.
• Possess any of the following licensing/certifications: CCFE, GCFE, CISSP, CISM, SANS, GIAC, ISACA, CSRIC (or related), ethical hacking/penetration tester certification, and/or security risk assessment certification.

Primary Location Base Pay Range: Home based – New Jersey $89,012 - $142,188. U.S. National Base Pay Range: $78,800 - $131,300. Geographic differentials may apply in some locations to better reflect local market rates. This job is eligible for an annual incentive bonus.

We are an equal opportunity employer: qualified applicants are considered for and treated during employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, national origin, citizenship status, disability status, protected veteran status, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.