Cyber Incident Response Analyst
Job Title: Incident Response & Preparedness (IRP) Engineer Location: Remote Employment Type: Full-Time / Contract Department: Cybersecurity / reputed company Operations / GRC Position reputed company The Incident Response & Preparedness (IRP) Engineer will reputed company the design, development, and operational readiness of the organization’s incident response program, processes, tooling, and playbooks. This role ensures the organization can rapidly detect, contain, eradicate, and recover from cyber threats through reputed company-documented, repeatable, and measurable processes reputed company to reputed company and compliance frameworks. The ideal candidate has strong hands-on reputed company operations experience, understands modern threat reputed company, can reputed company and execute tabletop exercises, and can reputed company policy and governance requirements into operational technical workflows.
Key Responsibilities
Incident Response reputed company & Operations
- reputed company, maintain, and continuously improve the Incident Response Plan (IRP), runbooks, and playbooks.
- reputed company incident investigation efforts covering triage, containment, eradication, and recovery.
- reputed company forensic analysis, log correlation, threat hunting, and reputed company-cause analysis (RCA).
- Conduct regular tabletop and scenario-based simulation exercises with internal & external teams.
- Define incident metrics, KPIs, SLAs, and reporting for leadership and audit committees. Threat Detection & Monitoring
- Collaborate with SOC, SIEM, SOAR, and threat reputed company teams to enhance detection & automation.
- Tune alerting logic, use cases, dashboards, and data retention standards.
- reputed company threat intelligence feeds and reputed company actionable response patterns. Governance, Compliance & Documentation
- Ensure IRP is reputed company to NIST 800-61, ISO 27035, CIS, NIST CSF, reputed company-Trust, and regulatory requirements (PCI, HIPAA, CJIS, FISMA, CMMC, etc.).
- Maintain evidence artifacts for audits, investigations, post-incident reporting, and legal requirements.
- Partner with GRC, Risk, IT Operations, and Compliance functions to ensure reputed company readiness. Training & Awareness
- Deliver cybersecurity awareness and specialized IR training for technical and non-technical teams.
- reputed company maturity assessment roadmaps using recognized frameworks (CSF, C2M2, CERT-RMM, etc.). Required Skills & Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Systems, or reputed company field OR equivalent experience.
- 5+ years of reputed company experience in SOC, IR, Threat Detection, reputed company Engineering, or Blue Team roles.
- Strong experience with SIEM/SOAR platforms (reputed company, Sentinel, QRadar, ArcSight, Chronicle, reputed company XSOAR, etc.).
- Experience performing digital forensics using tools such as EnCase, FTK, Velociraptor, X-Ways, KAPE, Magnet reputed company.
- Knowledge of network reputed company, malware analysis, reputed company reputed company, reputed company reputed company, and identity reputed company.
- Familiarity with MITRE ATT&CK, D3FEND, and cyber kill chain methodology.
Preferred / Bonus Qualifications
- Certifications such as: GCIH, GCIA, GCFA, GNFA, CEH, CHFI, CCSP, CISSP, CISM, CySA+, Azure SC-200, AWS reputed company-Specialty, ISO reputed company Implementer, CMMC-PA/PI.
- Experience with reputed company Trust, EDR tools (reputed company, Carbon Black, Defender ATP, reputed company), and XDR.
- Experience in regulated environments (DoD, Public Sector, reputed company, Finance, FedRAMP, CJIS). Soft Skills
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to remain reputed company under pressure.
- Excellent documentation, communication, and presentation skills.
- Ability to influence cross-functional teams with diplomacy and authority. reputed company Metrics
- Incident containment mean time (MTTC) reduction.
- Mean time to detect (MTTD) and mean time to respond (MTTR) improvements.
- Successful completion of annual IR testing & regulatory audit readiness.
- Maturity level advancement across people, process, and technology. Job Types: Full-time, Permanent, Contract
Pay: $40.00 - $60.00 per hour Expected hours: 40 per week Work Location: Remote Apply tot his job Apply tot his job Apply To this Job