Senior Incident Response Engineer

About the Role

Senior technical incident response team member responsible for researching and mitigating new threats, exploits, and mitigation techniques within a global information security organization.

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

• Improve the resilience and readiness of security protection and mitigation technologies and processes to ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the organization’s assets, information, data, and IT services.
• Develop and execute security incident response plans, conduct cyber forensic investigations on physical endpoints and cloud platforms, and lead the full life‑cycle of incident response investigations.
• Develop comprehensive incident reports and investigation summaries.
• Collect intelligence to proactively detect and identify high‑confidence threats to the brand, service infrastructure, and enterprise users and systems.
• Analyze and validate security control requirements and tuning, define mitigation rules, script and perform changes or mitigate attacks, and troubleshoot issues from security detection or protection technologies.
• Review existing tools, applications, and processes to strengthen and optimize current security capabilities, and identify gaps or technical solutions to enhance team effectiveness.
• Analyze and review security events for anomalous activity, collaborate with peer groups to safeguard company information assets against current and foreseen threats.

• Advanced knowledge of the security of cloud‑agnostic infrastructure.
• Ability to conduct forensic and incident response investigations.
• Understanding of incident response and risk mitigation workflow and planning.
• Experience analyzing security events for anomalous activity.
• Identification of emerging security threats.
• Ability to develop and implement security improvement and remediation programs.
• Proficiency in vulnerability assessment, exploitation techniques, malware reverse engineering, threat analysis, and security threat and incident reporting.
• Experience navigating Cloud and Web‑based environments.
• Relevant licensing/certification such as CCFE, GCFE, CISSP, CISM, SANS, GIAC, ISACA, CSRIC, ethical hacking/penetration testing, or security risk assessment.

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 to better reflect local market rates. 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.