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Principal, Cybersecurity Incident Responder - Remote

Kalamazoo, Michigan, USRemoteFull-time$136k–$294k2026-11-06 → 2026-11-10
Remote · from United States

Core

Leading technical response to significant and complex cybersecurity incidents, establishing priorities, and guiding containment, eradication, and recovery.

Role type

Senior IC cybersecurity incident responder

Builds

Incident response playbooks, detection capabilities, and automated response tooling

Domain

Cybersecurity / Incident Response

Required skills

Incident response leadership, digital forensics, threat hunting, attacker TTPs, risk-based decision making, cross-functional coordination, playbook development, AI/automation integration

Preferred skills

CISSP, GCIH, ECIH, OSIR, GCFA, GCFE, CHFI, CISM, GSOC, advanced threat investigation, enterprise security technologies

Technologies

Endpoint, identity, network, cloud, email security, telemetry, automation, orchestration

Responsibilities

Lead technical response from investigation to recovery, establish technical priorities and make risk-based decisions, partner with detection engineering and forensics teams, develop and improve incident response playbooks, design and facilitate technical tabletop exercises, leverage AI and automation to accelerate response, lead post-incident reviews and drive capability improvements, mentor the incident response team

Seniority

Principal, hands-on IC