Incident Response Lead - Remote

## Incident Response Lead - Remote Apply locations:
US-NY-New York-Virtual time type:
Full time posted on:
Posted Todayjob requisition :
R-4604

Our story  Strada is a technology-enabled, people powered company committed to delivering world-class payroll, human capital management, and financial management solutions to organizations globally.
With a team of more than 8,000 experts and over 30 years of expertise, Strada blends leading-edge technology with human ingenuity to help businesses across the globe design and deliver porting over 1,400 customers in 33 countries, Strada partners with customers at every stage of their journey, to help drive their vision forward.
It’s why we’re so driven to connect passion with purpose. Our team’s experience in human insights and cloud technology gives companies and employees around the world the ability to power confident decisions, for life.
With a comprehensive total rewards package, continuing education and training, and tremendous potential with a growing global organization, Strada is the perfect place to put your passion to work.
To learn more about us, visit stradaglobal.comWe are looking for a highly skilled and motivated
** Incident Response Lead
** to join our cybersecurity team. This individual will serve as the operational backbone of how Strada handles incidents and ensures Strada is prepared to respond effectively to cybersecurity incidents. This is an individual contributor leadership role with significant cross-functional influence. When things go wrong, you are the person who makes sure the right people are in the room, the right information is flowing, and nothing falls through the cracks.

The right person for this role brings structure and rigor to complex situations, drives timely decisions, and helps restore services safely and quickly without waiting for a playbook to be handed to them. This role will strengthen Strada’s incident response readiness by maturing processes, playbooks, escalation paths, exercises, and cross-functional operating mechanisms. You will be a self-starter who turns ambiguity into practical, repeatable operating mechanisms and moves work forward without waiting for detailed direction.

The role will partner closely with the SOC Leads, who own monitoring operations, detection engineering, alert triage processes, SIEM management, and SOC team performance.##

Key Responsibilities:

** Lead Cybersecurity Incident Response
*** Act as incident lead for major cybersecurity incidents, establishing severity, objectives, work streams, decision rights, communication cadence, and escalation paths.
* Direct the end-to-end response through validation and scoping, containment, eradication, recovery, and closure, maintaining a clear record of timelines, decisions, actions, and owners.
* Coordinate security, infrastructure, cloud, identity, network, application, vendor, and business teams to restore affected services safely and validate operational stability and residual risk.
* Provide concise, timely situation reports and decision recommendations to executives and stakeholders, translating technical findings into business impact and required actions.
* Partner with Legal, Privacy, Risk, Communications, Human Resources, Business Continuity, and customer-facing teams to meet regulatory, contractual, insurance, notification, and crisis communication obligations.
** Build readiness for incidents
*** Own and mature incident response by establishing processes, enhancing tooling, and defining operational standards for handling incidents at scale
* Continually improve the incident response framework, major-incident plans, escalation criteria, call trees, and response and recovery playbooks, including clear handoffs with other teams.
* Design and facilitate tabletop exercises and simulations to test technical readiness, decision-making, communications, and recovery arrangements.
* Perform incident readiness activities, and support additional cybersecurity initiatives as needed in a dynamic global corporate environment
** Coach and enable the organization
*** Provide expert guidance on complex incidents and mentor responders, analysts, and technical stakeholders…