Director of Incident Response

Responsibilities

• Build the IR function end to end: staffing model, 24/7 coverage plan, severity matrix, escalation tree, retainer relationships, and tooling stack aligned to NIST SP 800-61r2 phase structure
• Own major incident command for all Sev-0 and Sev-1 events, security and operational, including customer-facing communications and regulatory notification decisions
• Develop detection-to-containment runbooks mapped to MITRE ATT&CK techniques relevant to HPC and cloud tenancy threats
• Establish forensic readiness across bare-metal HPC nodes, Kubernetes workloads, and hypervisor layers
• Drive root cause analysis to engineering remediation with measurable closeout SLAs
• Instrument the IR function with hard metrics
• Operate Jira Service Management as the authoritative incident system of record
• Co-own business continuity and disaster recovery testing with Platform and DC Operations
• Own executive and board-level incident reporting

Requirements

• 10+ years in security operations or incident response, with at least 5 years running major incident response in high-availability, multi-tenant, or mission-critical infrastructure environments
• 5+ years leading IR or SOC teams, including direct accountability for hiring, performance management, and 24/7 operational coverage
• Demonstrated incident command experience on Sev-0 events with customer, regulatory, or board-level exposure
• Deep technical fluency in at least two of: HPC environments, Kubernetes and container security, hypervisor and bare-metal forensics, or public cloud incident response
• Working command of NIST SP 800-61r2, MITRE ATT&CK, and CIS Controls v8 Incident Response domain
• Hands-on experience with Jira Service Management, PagerDuty or equivalent, and at least one enterprise SIEM or XDR platform in a production IR context
• Experience building detection-to-response feedback loops with a detection engineering or SOC counterpart

Benefits & Perks

• Company-Paid Lunch Stipend: Lunch is provided via GrubHub
• Company-Paid Benefits: 100% Employer-Paid Medical in our High Deductible Health Plan, Dental and Vision benefits for employees and their families, 16 weeks of Paid Parental Leave, Employee Assistance Program, Life insurance, Short-Term Disability and Long-Term Disability
• 401(k): Company will match 100% of your contributions up to 6%
• Optional Employee-Paid Benefits: Medical insurance in our PPO plan and a variety of other benefits such as Health Savings Accounts (with Company Contribution!), Flexible Spending Accounts, Supplemental Life Insurance, Wellhub and more
• Time Off: 25 days of Paid Time Off plus 12 company holidays

Equal Opportunity Employer

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