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Manager, Security Incident Response

Chicago, IL💼 Full-time💰 $130,000–$130,000🗓 2026-07-31 → 2026-09-26

Core

Manage the Security Incident Response team to detect, contain, and remediate cyber threats, owning the full incident lifecycle from detection to post-incident review.

Role type

Manager, Security Incident Response (IC)

Builds

Scalable incident response function, detection engineering, and threat hunting capabilities

Domain

Cybersecurity, Cloud Infrastructure, Digital Forensics

Deliverable

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

Required skills

Incident response lifecycle management, forensic log analysis, threat hunting, playbook development, team leadership, KPI tracking, root cause analysis, cloud infrastructure management, security automation, digital forensics

Preferred skills

Technical archeology, process modernization, stakeholder communication

Technologies

Microsoft 365 Unified Audit Log, EDR, SIEM, SOAR, AWS, Azure, GCP, Microsoft Active Directory/Entra, O365, Powershell, Python, Shell scripting, TCP/IP, DNS, WAF, OAuth, SAML

Responsibilities

Lead and manage the Security Incident Response Team; conduct forensic investigations and log analysis; design and maintain incident response processes and playbooks; drive maturity of detection engineering and threat hunting functions; balance reactive response and proactive detection tracks; report on incident response KPIs; facilitate tabletop exercises and root cause analysis.

Seniority

Manager, hands-on IC with team leadership

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