Sr. Incident Response Analyst

Senior Incident Response Analyst is responsible for leading investigations into potential cybersecurity events, analyzing artifacts to determine intrusion methods, and driving resolution strategies while continuously improving security posture. This role requires deep expertise in incident response, forensic analysis, and regulatory frameworks, as well as strong communication and leadership skills to guide junior analysts and collaborate with compliance team.

• Conduct artifact analysis to determine intrusion methods and recommend resolutions.
• Lead incident response processes including event monitoring, investigation, and remediation.
• Investigate potential cybersecurity events across multiple environments using diverse tools and techniques.
• Develop and maintain information security policies, standards, and procedures.
• Provide mentorship and guidance to junior analysts. Correlate artifacts across multiple datasets to identify and resolve security events.
• Monitor internal logs, alerts, and external service provider activity to detect threats.
• Analyze compromised systems and remediate to a clean state.
• Perform breach indicator assessments and investigate malicious network traffic.
• Support compliance inquiries from IT risk management and auditors.
• Create reports analyzing activities, trends, and evolving threats.
• Develop security operations detections, playbooks, and automations.
• Research evolving threats, techniques, tools, and vulnerabilities.
• Stay current with industry frameworks, security practices, and organizational changes.

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Cybersecurity, Computer Science, or related discipline.
• 5+ years of experience in Cybersecurity Operations or Information Security.
• Strong knowledge of incident response, forensic analysis, and offensive security methods.
• Hands-on experience with Mac OS, Linux, Windows, and cloud environments.
• Experience with security data collection, analysis, and correlation.
• Knowledge of regulatory frameworks (CRI, ISO 27001, NIST 800 series, FFIEC, SOC2, STAR).
• English and Japanese language skills with cultural fluency (strongly required).

• Incident Response and Forensics.
• Security Governance and Oversight.
• Security Risk Management.
• Network Security.
• Threat and Vulnerability Management.
• Information security audits, reviews, and risk assessments.

• Security Event Monitoring & Investigation
• Artifact Analysis & Correlation
• Policy & Procedure Development
• Regulatory Compliance & Risk Management
• Report Writing & Threat Analysis
• Fast-paced cybersecurity operations environment.
• Cross-functional collaboration with compliance, IT risk management, and audit teams.
• Requires strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.