Job Description:
The Cybersecurity Incident Response Engineer helps the Cybersecurity Team conduct incident response activities and manage the incident process for the organization, according to security policies and best practices. The incumbent will be seen as the subject matter expert (SME) on incident response and digital forensics and must be able to lead internal and external team members during the incident response management process. The Incident Response Engineer shall maintain a security readiness posture, to include continuous training and preparation within the incident response lifecycle. The incumbent must have a service-oriented mentality, a high sense of ownership of problems, a focus on managing and resolving issues in alignment with SLAs, establishing and maintaining communication with Evolve leadership to keep them updated, initiating and performing changes on production systems and proactively escalating issues that cannot be resolved within established timeframes.
Main Job Tasks and Responsibilities:
- Provide hands-on technical designs, recommendations, and implementations of incident response tools and infrastructure.
- Conduct hands-on collection, processing, and analysis of forensic evidence pertaining to incidents.
- Ability to develop technical roadmaps for future incident response activities.
- Conduct analysis upon files to determine if they are malicious or benign.
- Follow industry trends and build proof of concepts leveraging new incident response technologies and methodologies.
- Provide reports of indicators of compromise to Security Operations Teams for follow on threat hunts and detection engineering related to incidents.
Education and Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related technical field.
- Practitioner, Project-based experience (e.g., triage scripting, memory analysis, imaging, timeline creation, threat hunting, adversary emulation).
- 3-5 years of applied experience.
- Certifications preferred: GIAC GCIH, GCFE, GBFA, GEIR, GCFA, GXFA.
Key Competencies:
- Integrity
- Teamwork
- Adaptable
- Curious
- Analytical and Critical Thinking
- Problem Solving
