Tier 3 Incident Response Lead

Tier 3 Incident Response Lead Job#: 3052523

Job Description:

Tier 3 Incident Response Lead

Location:

Salisbury, North Carolina (Remote)

Role Overview This position is for a Tier 3 Incident Response Lead responsible for providing expert leadership during major security incidents. The role involves driving rapid detection, triage, containment, and eradication activities. The ideal candidate will possess a strong investigative mindset and have experience coordinating incidents and stakeholders, including communicating effectively with executive leadership.

Key Responsibilities Lead and coordinate security incident response operations from initial alert triage through closure.

Direct containment actions, including host isolation, account disablement, and network blocks.

Assume technical leadership for assigned incidents by directing investigative priorities and coordinating participating teams.

Execute deep incident investigations across endpoints, servers, cloud services, and network telemetry.

Communicate status and risk to technical teams and senior stakeholders.

Produce high-quality incident reports, impact analyses, and executive summaries.

Mentor junior responders and analysts, providing coaching on investigative techniques and stakeholder management.

Develop, maintain, and continuously improve Incident Response runbooks and playbooks.

Required Qualifications

Experience:

Proven experience in Tier 3 incident response, focusing on coordinating major incidents rather than routine SOC analysis.

Demonstrated experience leading incident response efforts, coordinating stakeholders, and reporting findings to executive leadership.

Leadership experience, including training and mentoring junior team members.

Technical

Skills:

Proficiency with the Microsoft Security Suite, including MS Defender and XDR solutions.

Strong investigative mindset with the ability to analyze and correlate data from various security tools.

Everforth Apex is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Everforth Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package.

Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including Clearly Rateds Best of Staffing in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work in the United Kingdom and Mexico.

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Everforth Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection. We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure. Everforth Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a Support Linc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts.

In terms of professional development, Everforth Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership…