Senior Incident Response Analyst, MDR; Romania

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Sophos is a global leader and innovator of advanced security solutions for defeating cyberattacks. The company acquired Secureworks in February 2025, bringing together two pioneers that have redefined the cybersecurity industry with their innovative, native AI‑optimized services, technologies and products. Sophos is now the largest pure‑play Managed Detection and Response (MDR) provider, supporting more than 28,000 organizations. In addition to MDR and other services, Sophos’ complete portfolio includes industry‑leading endpoint, network, email, and cloud security that interoperate and adapt to defend through the Sophos Central platform.

Secureworks provides the innovative, market‑leading Taegis XDR/MDR, identity threat detection and response (ITDR), next‑gen SIEM capabilities, managed risk, and a comprehensive set of advisory services. Sophos sells all these solutions through reseller partners, Managed Service Providers (MSPs) and Managed Security Service Providers (MSSPs) worldwide, defending more than 600,000 organizations worldwide from phishing, ransomware, data theft, other everyday and state‑sponsored cybercrimes.

The solutions are powered by historical and real‑time threat intelligence from Sophos X‑Ops and the newly added Counter Threat Unit (CTU). Sophos is headquartered in Oxford, U.K. More information is available at

Sophos is seeking an experienced and motivated Senior Incident Response Analyst to support its’ Managed Detection and Response (MDR) customers and managed service providers (MSPs).

As a Senior Incident Response Analyst, you will work directly with customers and MSPs who are experiencing an active cyber incident, to quickly investigate, contain and assist with their remediation efforts. Utilizing Sophos technologies, you will work with both large and small organizations across multiple countries and levels of technical maturity. This is a fast‑paced role that requires the ability to make quick context‑based decisions to disrupt adversary activity.

• Utilize Sophos technologies to investigate, contain, and respond to cyber incidents.
• Review security‑related events and assess their risk and validity based on available telemetry from network, endpoint, and global threat intelligence information to provide customers with concise, detailed, and well‑written incident reports, root causes identification, and remediation recommendations.
• Perform technical analysis and develop technical conclusions based on analysis of evidence.
• Serve as subject matter expert in incident response and digital forensics.
• Perform complex incident response technical analysis and develop technical conclusions based on analysis of evidence; review analysis and conclusions of other consultants.
• Document findings and develop incident response remediation recommendations to present both orally and in written reports for customers.
• Develop playbooks based on customer needs.
• Use the Taegis platform to proactively hunt for and investigate activity within the customer environment.

• Essential:
• 3+ years experience conducting cyber security investigations in a methodical manner and investigating threats or 2+ years experience performing incident response engagements.
• Understanding of network architecture and IT infrastructure.
• Experience creating technical documentation and technical reports for customers.
• Ability to work under high‑pressure situations, when response time matters, to disrupt adversary activity.
• Network and endpoint (macOS, Linux, Windows) investigation experience; IDS, IPS, EDR, and basic malware analysis.
• Understanding of at least one of the following: OSQuery, SQL, and KQL.
• Experience applying frameworks such as MITRE Attack and Cyber Kill Chain.
• Ability to work some weekends and holidays.
• Knowledge of Windows and Linux command and script interpreters.
• Desired:
• Advanced cyber security certifications (GCFE/GCFA, CompTIA CySA+, OSCP, etc.).
• Experience calling customers and providing excellent customer service.
• Publications, either written or acknowledged, within the cyber security field.
• Working directly with C‑level stakeholders.

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