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Threat Detection & Incident Response Manager (Remote U.S. or Raritan, NJ)

At Johnson & Johnson, we leverage healthcare innovation to profoundly impact health for humanity. We are seeking a dynamic and experienced Threat Detection & Incident Response Manager to enhance our global cybersecurity posture through innovative services and technology solutions.

The ideal candidate must possess a deep understanding of cybersecurity principles and extensive experience in cyber defense technologies. The primary responsibility is to investigate and respond to business-impacting IT Security incidents, ensuring timely and accurate incident validation, containment, and recovery. This position is based in Raritan, NJ, or fully remote in the U.S.

This role serves as a top subject matter expert on digital forensics and incident response, interfacing with stakeholders inside and outside of ISRM to ensure readiness and alignment for IT Security incident response.

• Perform active investigation and response to IT security alerts and incidents.
• Perform root cause analysis and remediation of material security risks.

• Support major incident response activities as an individual contributor (performing digital forensics and incident response) or response commander (performing overall leadership and management).
• Engage various stakeholders inside and outside of IT/Security, and provide status updates to leadership.
• Participate in on-call rotation to receive and review incident escalations ahead of major incident response team activation.

• Evaluate and implement enhancements to tooling, documentation/runbooks, detection logic, and/or implement proactive improvements to prevent or detect future incidents.

• Team Development: Mentor and develop team members, fostering a culture of innovation and continuous improvement.
• Tool Evaluation and Selection: Evaluate and recommend cybersecurity tools and technologies that enhance response capabilities.
• Risk Management: Identify potential risks and vulnerabilities in systems and processes and coordinate mitigation of them.
• Threat Intelligence and Analysis: Utilize threat intelligence to inform response efforts and to bolster proactive defense measures.

A bachelor's degree or equivalent experience required.

• 8 years’ experience in digital forensics and incident response.
• Digital forensics tools and techniques.
• Incident response, including major incident response leadership.
• Technical writing and communication.
• Cyber defense frameworks (NIST, ISO, CIS).
• SIEM tools (Splunk, Sentinel).
• Programming or scripting (PHP, Python, Java script).

• Business Process Design
• Crisis Management
• Critical Thinking
• Information Security Auditing
• Information Security Management System (ISMS)
• Information Technology (IT) Security Assessments
• Information Technology Strategies
• Mentorship
• Organizing
• Presentation Design
• Process Optimization
• Root Cause Analysis (RCA)
• Security Architecture Design
• Security Policies
• Technical Credibility
• Vulnerability Management

The anticipated base pay range for this position is: $102,000 - $177,100.

Employees and/or eligible dependents are eligible to participate in Company sponsored employee benefit programs, including medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short- and long-term disability, business accident insurance, and group legal insurance. Employees are eligible to participate in the Company’s consolidated retirement plan (pension) and savings plan (401(k)).

Time off benefits include:

• Vacation: 120 hours per calendar year.
• Sick time: 40 hours per calendar year (56 hours per calendar year for Washington residents).
• Holiday pay, including Floating Holidays: 13 days per calendar year.
• Work, Personal and Family Time: up to 40 hours per calendar year.
• Parental Leave: 480 hours within one year of the birth/adoption/foster care of a child.
• Condolence Leave: 30 days for an immediate family member; 5 days for an extended family member.
• Caregiver Leave: 10 days.
• Volunteer Leave: 4 days.
• Military Spouse Time-Off: 80 hours.

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