Sr. Incident Responder

The Senior Incident Responder will be a critical team member within the new Versant Cyber organization. This individual is responsible for providing cyber threat alerting, event monitoring, response, and threat hunting for all areas of the business in a highly collaborative, fast paced, and agile fashion. As part of the incident response and detection team, the successful candidate will be expected to utilize their technical expertise to assess, contain, and remediate cyber threats as well as serve as an escalation point for security alerts. RESPONSIBILITIES: Key areas of focus for the Senior Incident Responder include managing workflows, escalations, and advance technical processes to build program maturity and growth of the threat operations and response function. The successful candidate will be responsible for the following activities: Day-to-day operational tasks related to the ongoing support of threat operations. Responsible for forensically analyzing escalated security incidents from the SOC and conducting response actions following NIST and SANS Incident Response Frameworks. Responsible for analyzing threat data from multiple sources and identifying security incidents and events of importance for direct escalation to Incident Commander(s). Promote, foster, and advocate for an environment of collaboration, diversity, and inclusion. Utilize forensic skillsets to properly scope and determine impact for security incidents across multiple technology platforms (Cloud, Hosts, Networks, Applications, Email). Mitigate risk by taking appropriate containment response actions on multiple platforms, or in some cases handoffs to partner teams. Keep detailed notes on all analysis activity, documented in the case management tool to validate process adherence. Responsible for contributing to the strategic creation and updating of new and existing SOAR playbooks and runbooks to support efficient event alerting and response actions. Provide On-Call support for escalated events. Involvement with Cyber initiatives and projects that influence defense capabilities.