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Security Incident Response Engineer

ATLANTA, GA, US💼 Full-time🗓 2026-08-12 → 2026-09-26

Core

Detect, investigate, contain, eradicate, and recover from cybersecurity incidents across global endpoints, identities, cloud, and data environments.

Role type

Senior IC Security Incident Response Engineer

Builds

Incident response playbooks, detection logic, SOAR workflows, and forensic evidence

Domain

Cybersecurity / Incident Response / Threat Detection

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | client delivery | infrastructure | physical/clinical work

Required skills

Incident response methodologies, threat hunting, digital forensics, log analysis, MITRE ATT&CK, EDR platforms, SIEM technologies, cloud security, scripting (PowerShell/Python/KQL)

Preferred skills

Threat intelligence, malware investigation, automation tooling, table-top exercise facilitation

Technologies

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, SentinelOne, CrowdStrike, Microsoft Sentinel, Google SecOps, Splunk, QRadar, Microsoft 365, Entra ID, Active Directory

Responsibilities

Investigate and respond to security incidents across endpoints, identities, cloud, and data; Perform triage, containment, eradication, and recovery; Conduct proactive threat hunting and root cause analysis; Develop and maintain incident response playbooks and runbooks; Analyze alerts from EDR, SIEM, and threat intelligence platforms; Provide technical leadership during major incidents; Mentor junior responders

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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