CareerPlan

Lead, Cyber Threat Response

Long Island City,US-NY,United StatesFull-time$105k2026-07-30 → 2026-11-11

Core

Lead incident coordination, security event investigation, and security operations for cyber threats.

Role type

Junior leadership IC cybersecurity incident responder

Builds

Incident response playbooks, workflows, and response documentation

Domain

Cybersecurity / Incident Response

Required skills

Incident response coordination, threat investigation, digital forensics, threat hunting, vulnerability management, SIEM/EDR/SOAR case management, MITRE ATT&CK/NIST frameworks, OS/cloud/networking/identity/endpoint security concepts

Preferred skills

GCIH, GCFA, GCIA, GCTI, OSCP, CHFI certifications

Technologies

SIEM, EDR, SOAR, case management tools, digital forensic tools

Responsibilities

Investigate threat activity by reviewing evidence, assessing impact, and documenting findings; Coordinate incident response activities across triage, containment, remediation, recovery, and closure; Lead response efforts for emerging threats including zero-day vulnerabilities and third-party breaches; Collaborate with internal teams and external partners for timely decision-making and resolution; Maintain playbooks, workflows, and response documentation; Support tabletop exercises, lessons learned, and after-action reviews; Lead or support on-call emergency cyber incident response activities outside normal business hours; Support insider threat reviews, threat hunting, and executive protection activities by analyzing security data; Assist with digital forensics and eDiscovery through evidence collection, preservation, analysis, and documentation

Seniority

Junior leadership, hands-on IC