Information Security Engineer Job New Haven area,Connecticut USA,IT/Tech

Position: Information Security Engineer 3

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Overview

This position involves advanced incident response and threat analysis as part of the SOC and Security Engineering teams.

Responsibilities

Conduct Incident Response

Activities:

Participate in security incident response efforts, managing assigned incidents through the full handling lifecycle including identification, containment, eradication, and recovery in coordination with other SOC and Security Engineering team members.

Perform Detailed Incident Analysis:
Analyze host, network, and cloud telemetry to determine root cause, attack path, and impact of security events; document findings and maintain thorough incident records.

Support Tier 2 SOC Operations:
Respond to escalated alerts, security tickets, and service requests, ensuring timely investigation, documentation, and remediation of potential threats within established service levels.

Develop and Maintain Response Playbooks:
Contribute to the creation, refinement, and maintenance of incident response playbooks and procedures for various threat types to ensure consistent and effective handling of incidents.

Enhance Detection and Response Capabilities:
Collaborate with Security Engineering teams to identify detection gaps, improve alerting logic, and drive automation within response workflows.

Participate in Post-Incident Reviews and Knowledge Sharing:
Engage in lessons‑learned activities, track remediation actions, and mentor SOC analysts to strengthen incident analysis and handling capabilities.

Principal Responsibilities

Responsible for routine to moderately complex event and incident monitoring, threat detection and data correlation.

Assist with collecting potential breach evidence, participate in network and host forensic analysis, and assist with incident remediation activities.

Meet with stakeholders to assess departments security requirements.

Assist in the development of security standards and best practices.

Research the latest information security trends and emerging threats.

Required

Skills and Abilities

Developed analytical, critical thinking and problem‑solving skills.
Demonstrated full lifecycle security incident response experience.
Developed interpersonal, written, communication, presentation, and organizational skills.
Familiarity with systems analysis methods and techniques.
Project management skills.

Required

Education and Experience

Bachelor's Degree and four years of experience or equivalent education and experience.

Equal Employment Opportunity

The University is committed to basing judgments concerning the admission, education, and employment of individuals upon their qualifications and abilities and seeks to attract to its faculty, staff, and student body qualified persons from a broad range of backgrounds and perspectives. In accordance with this policy and as delineated by federal and Connecticut law, Yale does not discriminate in admissions, educational programs, or employment against any individual on account of that individual’s sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, race, color, national or ethnic origin, religion, age, disability, status as a special disabled veteran, veteran of the Vietnam era or other covered veteran.

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