Senior Cybersecurity Incident Responder
ZEISS Group
full-time
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Location Type: Office
Location: Oberkochen • Germany
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Tech Stack
About the role
- Acting as a permanent member of the Cybersecurity Incident Response Team (CIRT)
- Executing and supporting technical incident response activities, including analysis, containment, and recovery
- Escalating critical technical findings and risks to the Incident Commander
- Supporting the Incident Commander and Incident Coordinators in the technical execution of incident response activities
- Providing technical guidance and expertise to other IR roles
- Collaborating closely with Digital Forensics and Threat Intelligence teams to enable in-depth technical analysis
- Performing and reporting root cause analysis, incident status, and potential response measures
- Supplying accurate technical input for internal communication and external reporting to authorities via the Incident Commander
- Ensuring complete and structured documentation of all incident response activities
Requirements
- Several years of professional experience in cybersecurity incident response, SOC, DFIR, or cyber defense environments
- Strong technical knowledge of IT infrastructures, networks, operating systems, and cloud environments
- Proven experience in handling complex or high-severity cybersecurity incidents
- Solid understanding of attacker Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs) and the ability to identify, analyze, and respond to them in real-world incidents
- Experience mapping observed activity to frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK and deriving response or mitigation measures
- Sound understanding of established incident response frameworks (e.g. NIST, SANS)
- Ability to communicate technical findings clearly and concisely to different stakeholder groups
- Structured, reliable, and resilient working style, particularly in critical situations.
Benefits
- Professional development opportunities
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Hard Skills & Tools
cybersecurity incident responsetechnical incident responseroot cause analysisTactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs)MITRE ATT&CKincident response frameworksNISTSANSIT infrastructurescloud environments
Soft Skills
communicationcollaborationstructured working stylereliable working styleresilient working style