Incident Response Analyst

• Lead high‑fidelity alert investigations, performing deep technical analysis to rapidly identify, contain, and remediate threats.
• Own complex incident investigations, driving technically precise conclusions and elevating the organization’s detection and response maturity.
• Champion process development, identifying gaps, designing scalable workflows, and implementing improvements that strengthen the Incident Response program.
• Create and refine technical playbooks, documentation, and response guides, ensuring clarity, consistency, and operational excellence.
• Mentor and uplift junior analysts, providing guidance, coaching, and training to build a high-performing team.
• Serve as the escalation point for critical and ambiguous cases, applying advanced threat analysis and sound judgment under pressure.
• Collaborate with engineering, IT, Legal, HR, and business partners to resolve incidents holistically and drive enterprise-wide security improvements.
• Apply strong analytical and technical expertise to continuously enhance SOC processes, workflows, and response capabilities.
• Contribute to the evolution of our detection landscape, partnering with detection engineering to improve log ingestion, alert logic, and signal quality.
• Assess and mitigate AI‑related security risks, including model misuse, prompt injection, data leakage, and emerging automation attack vectors.
• Participate in an on‑call rotation, serving as a trusted responder for high‑severity incidents.

Senior Incident Response Analyst

• Serving as the point of contact for cyber systems events to manage communications and coordination
• For cyber breaches by vendors, working closely with the Cyber team, gathering details on the cyber breach, applying lessons learned and documenting events
• For client cyber breaches, collaborating with the Cyber team, Anti-Fraud, and other stakeholders in coordinating responses and documentation
• Coordinating the cyber incident response process from initial detection to resolution, ensuring timely action and communication
• Enhancing incident response documentation and procedures
• Point of escalation for the cyber incident management team and fostering collaboration
• Participating in cyber-related tabletop exercises and conducting social engineering exercises

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