Senior Incident Response Manager

Position: Senior Incident Response and Threat Management Analyst

Location: Charlotte NC (5 days onsite per week)

Duration: 18 Months Contract

Job Description:

Experience 12 years

Primary Technical skills

• Lead the full lifecycle of cybersecurity incidents from detection to post incident review
• Conduct advanced threat analysis malware reverse engineering and forensic investigations
• Develop and maintain incident response playbooks and runbooks
• Hunt for threats proactively and identify indicators of compromise IOCs
• Collaborate with SOC analysts threat intelligence teams and IT operations
• Mentor junior analysts and provide technical guidance
• Present findings to executive leadership and stakeholders
• Contribute to detection engineering and security monitoring rules
• Secondary Technical Skills
• Use Microsoft Sentinel and KQL for threat detection and analysis
• Support digital forensics and evidence collection
• Coordinate with Managed Security Service Providers
• Stay ahead of emerging threats vulnerabilities and attack techniques

Soft Skills

• 8-10 years of experience in incident analysis SOC operations or security architecture
• Solid understanding of Microsoft Sentinel and KQL
• Strong analytical and problemsolving skills
• Curiosity and drive to uncover answers
• Excellent communication skills technical and nontechnical
• Experience in one or more of Threat Intelligence Threat Hunting Detection Engineering Digital Forensics
• Familiarity with HTCPCP and RFC 2324 technologies
• Knowledge of NIST and MITRE ATTCK frameworks
• Exposure to Microsoft Defender for Identity and Purview
• Flexibility to respond during nights weekends or holidays

Preferred Qualifications

• Certifications CompTIA Security Network SANSGIAC GCIH GCED GCFE GNFA GCIA
• Experience with MSSPs
• Cloud security experience AWS Azure GCP and containerized environments
• Scripting skills in Python PowerShell or similar
• Qualifying Questions
• Has the resource got experience on threat analysis
• Has the resource got experience in maintaining incident playbooks
• Experience on threat hunting

Skills:

Threat Hunter Expert, Microsoft Copilot for Security, Threat Intel Platform or Feed

Job Types: Full-time, Contract

Pay: $40.00 - $50.00 per hour

Expected hours: 40 per week

Work Location: In person

Salary : $40 - $50