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Manager, Incident Response

Sophos·Remote

Pay not stated7–13 yrsFull-timeRemote

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About the role

The successful candidate will be responsible for the people leadership and operational management of the CIRT, ensuring consistent, high-quality execution across active cyber security incidents and customer engagements. As an Incident Response Manager, you will lead and develop squads of analysts across CIRT while remaining technically engaged as a senior escalation point for complex and high-severity incidents.

What you'll do

  • Lead and develop squads of analysts across CIRT; set clear expectations, provide coaching and feedback, support career development, and build an inclusive
  • Own day-to-day CIRT operations across multiple squads, ensuring appropriate staffing, coverage, workload balancing, prioritization
  • Provide senior technical leadership and act as Incident Commander for complex or high-severity engagements, coordinating investigation, containment, eradication
  • Establish and maintain operational and investigative quality standards, ensuring teams follow approved processes and playbooks and that engagement documentation
  • Use engagement, quality, response-time, capacity, and customer-outcome metrics to identify trends, manage performance, inform resource planning

What you need

  • 7–13 yrs of experience
  • Incident response
  • Cloud security
  • Performance management
  • B.Tech or B.E. or B.Sc or BCA

Good to have

  • SIEM
  • CISSP
  • EDR
  • SQL
  • PowerShell

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