Senior Incident Response Readiness Analyst
Core
Senior individual contributor responsible for strengthening the organization's ability to prepare for, respond to, and recover from cyber, technology, and operational disruptions through incident response planning, playbook development, and readiness exercises.
Role type
Senior IC incident response readiness analyst
Builds
Incident response plans, playbooks, runbooks, and readiness artifacts for critical products and services
Domain
Cybersecurity, Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery
Required skills
Incident response lifecycle management, Business Impact Analysis (BIA), Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and Recovery Point Objective (RPO) planning, tabletop exercise design, stakeholder advisory, third-party dependency management, program health reporting, training and onboarding
Preferred skills
GCIH, CISSP, CISM, CBCP, DRCP, MBCP, ISO 22301, ITIL, CISA certifications, crisis management practices, cloud services recovery, virtualization recovery, networking recovery, facilitation of cross-functional workshops
Technologies
Cybersecurity operations, application recovery, infrastructure recovery, cloud services, backups, replication, virtualization, endpoint recovery, networking, service management processes
Responsibilities
Maintain and update BCDR and incident response readiness artifacts including BIAs, recovery plans, runbooks, and playbooks; Advise Product Owners and business stakeholders on response roles, decision points, and readiness requirements; Serve as an incident response coordinator during cyber, technology, or operational incidents; Plan, design, and execute incident response readiness activities such as tabletop exercises and simulation drills; Author and maintain incident response materials, exercise materials, and lessons-learned reports; Liaise with application, service, product, infrastructure, cybersecurity, and business owners to validate response procedures; Coordinate with Crisis Management, Communications, Legal, and executive stakeholders; Manage third-party continuity and incident response dependencies; Measure and report incident response readiness program health; Train and onboard incident responders and support teams
