
Senior Incident Response Analyst
Your scope of duties
- Independently leading the technical response to high-severity and critical cybersecurity incidents.
- Confirming the scope of an attack, level of compromise, attack vector, business impact and required response actions.
- Performing advanced analysis of endpoint, network, identity, application and cloud telemetry.
- Reconstructing attack paths and preparing detailed incident timelines.
- Conducting threat hunting based on indicators of compromise, attacker behaviours, tactics, techniques and procedures.
- Designing, recommending and overseeing containment and eradication activities.
- Analysing malware, scripts, processes, persistence mechanisms, lateral movement and privilege escalation.
- Performing root cause analysis and defining measures to prevent incident recurrence.
- Assessing the risks associated with restoring systems and services.
- Supporting decisions related to network segmentation, account and credential resets, system rebuilds, backup restoration and service recovery.
- Acting as the technical lead during major cybersecurity incidents.
- Mentoring Junior Incident Response Analysts.
- Developing, testing and improving incident response playbooks.
- Preparing the technical sections of post-incident reports and participating in post-incident reviews.
Our requirements
- Several years of professional experience in Incident Response, Security Operations Centre operations, Digital Forensics and Incident Response, threat hunting or cyber defence.
- Broad knowledge of network, endpoint, operating system, application, identity and data security.
- Advanced knowledge of incident investigation methodologies and the MITRE ATT&CK framework.
- Strong experience with SIEM, EDR/XDR, NDR, SOAR, detection and forensic tools.
- Strong knowledge of Windows, Linux, Active Directory, Microsoft Entra ID and network protocols.
- Experience in investigating phishing, ransomware, account compromise, application attacks and data exfiltration.
- Hands-on experience with at least one major cloud platform, such as AWS, Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud.
- Experience in digital forensics, memory analysis, timeline analysis and evidence preservation.
- Experience in recovery activities, including secure service restoration, system rebuilds, backup validation and post-recovery monitoring.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to work effectively under pressure.
What we offer
- Participation in projects addressing complex cybersecurity incidents across diverse technology environments.
- Access to advanced security technologies and opportunities to further develop expertise in Incident Response, threat hunting and digital forensics.
- A role with a real impact on the development of incident response playbooks, investigation standards and the broader Incident Response capability.
- Professional and financial support in obtaining recognised qualifications and certificates.
- EY Badges – global certification of your competencies and the opportunity to earn an MBA title from the prestigious Hult International School of Business.
- Career Counselor – professional, one-to-one guidance on career building and development.
- Psycho-educational platform – a package of free consultations with specialists in the broad field of mental health and personal development and access to educational activities.
- Benefit programme offering private healthcare with additional preventive examinations, life insurance, tickets, team sports, a language learning platform, sports cards and much more, available online and offline.
Recruitment stages
- Apply. If this is your first time applying, create a profile and upload your CV.
- Let’s talk. You will meet our Talent Acquisition experts and members of your future team.
Benefits:
Benefits:
- sharing the costs of sports activities
- sharing the costs of foreign language classes
- sharing the costs of professional training & courses
- life insurance
- remote work opportunities
- flexible working time
- fruits
- integration events
- corporate sports team
- mobile phone available for private use
- charity events
- video games at work
- leisure zone
- sharing the costs of tickets to the movies, theater
- baby layette
- christmas gifts
- employee referral program
- family picnics
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