Senior Incident Response Analyst, Sophos
CA$131-219k
Plus bonus eligibility
More information about location
Cybersecurity-as-a-Service
Open for applications
Cybersecurity-as-a-Service
1001+ employees
Open for applications
CA$131-219k
Plus bonus eligibility
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To develop powerful and intuitive products and services that provide the world's most effective cybersecurity for organizations of any size.
Role
Who you are
- The successful candidate will have experience in developing, managing, and operating incident response capabilities, conducting training, exercises and workshops, and will be familiar with tactics, techniques, and procedures commonly employed by threat actors and how to mitigate them
- Familiarity with the drivers and constraints that organizations are working with and against while trying to secure their infrastructure and data is a necessity
- 7+ years of cybersecurity experience, with a focus on incident response preparedness, threat modeling, or DFIR program development
- 5+ years building or managing IR capabilities across departments, including IR plans, playbooks, readiness assessments, and simulation exercises
- Deep knowledge of incident response frameworks (e.g., NIST 800-61, MITRE ATT&CK, Cyber Kill Chain) and how to operationalize them in a preparedness context
- Experience designing and facilitating tabletop exercises, purple teaming, or scenario-based simulations
- Strong understanding of threat intelligence integration and detection strategy alignment
- Proven ability to mentor analysts and elevate organizational response maturity
- Skilled at documenting and improving IR procedures, runbooks, and escalation paths
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including executive briefings and post-exercise reports
- Ability to manage multiple readiness initiatives and influence cross-functional teams
- Experience with SOAR platforms, playbook automation, and detection rule tuning
- Familiarity with cloud security and forensics (AWS, Azure, hybrid environments)
- Certifications such as GCFA, GCFE, GCIH, CISSP, or similar
- Experience in business continuity, disaster recovery, or cyber resilience programs
- Willingness to support after-hours exercises or response readiness testing if needed
What the job involves
- Sophos is seeking an experienced and motivated Senior Incident Response & Readiness Consultant to join the Sophos Advisory Services (SAS) team
- The SAS team is an elite group of incident responders that are engaged by organizations worldwide to respond to and neutralize cyber threats
- Our team is also focused on helping organizations prepare for incidents through plan development, assessments and table top exercises
- The Senior Consultant works with clients in the growing area of cybersecurity incident response management
- This role focuses on preparing clients to effectively handle cybersecurity incidents as well as occasionally providing advisory services to clients experiencing incidents
- Helping clients prepare for incidents includes developing and evaluating response capabilities and plan documentation, delivering training, and conducting exercises to test response capabilities
- Serve as subject matter expert in incident response capability development and improvement
- Manage consulting workload, client requirements, and internal projects and tasking as assigned
- Design and deliver incident response exercises to test client incident response plans; oversee the delivery of exercises by other consultants
- Develop detailed incident response plans and playbooks based on client needs
- Contribute to the continual improvement of services that we deliver to clients and the processes that the team utilizes to deliver them
- Provide objective, actionable, and complete guidance that enables and improves our customers’ incident management capabilities
- Conduct assessments of client readiness to respond to incidents, including designing and delivering incident response exercises to test client incident response capabilities; review the assessments of other consultants
- Support complex incident response; review analysis and conclusions of other consultants
- Document findings, develop recommendations and present both orally and in written reports
- Promote Sophos by participating in external speaking engagements, writing whitepapers and blogposts, and ensuring identification of opportunities for additional support to be provided to clients
- Mentor junior staff
Our take
Due to the fast-evolving nature of cybercrime, companies can struggle to keep their security up-to-date and resilient. Sophos provides managed cybersecurity services to identify and resolve cyberthreats within all sizes of organisations, combining cutting edge cybersecurity tech with expert support teams.
Leveraging AI and machine learning, Sophos' system automates the detection and blocking of over 99% of threats, meaning its analysts only have to hunt down and stop the most sophisticated attackers. As well as its Managed Detection and Response (MDR) product - which, serving over 15,000 customers, is the most-used on the market - the company also delivers Incident Response Services for those experiencing an active threat.
Sophos is not a new player in the cybersecurity space, but has demonstrated its dedication to innovation with continued product launches, updates, and acquisitions such as that of BAE spinout SOC.OS that have kept its tech at the front of the market. Alongside many of its peers, the effects of the economic climate have caused Sophos to cut staff as it focusses on achieving “the optimal balance of growth and profitability", but this recent hiccup does not take away from its position as a market leader continuously leading adaption in the space.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Company
Funding (1 round)
Jul 2020
$2.7m
SEED
Total funding: $2.7m
Company benefits
- Remote-first working model & hybrid options
- We encourage teams to get together in person periodically to help facilitate teamwork
- Flexible start and end times for many roles
- Leadership development program
- Access to LinkedIn Learning
- Global internal coaching program (Coach Match)
- Periodic Sophos wellness days off for all Sophos to help employees relax and recharge
- Global wellbeing program, which offers a range of wellbeing resources, including Sophos Wellbeing Webinars, Stress Management Toolkits, and Developing Resilience Courses
- Free Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for confidential advice and counseling on a wide range of work and personal issues
- Free annual subscription to the Calm app
- Paid parental leave, caregiver leave & bereavement/compassion leave available
- We host some unforgettable social experiences for our global teams including our music festival SOPH-Fest, go-karting, Sophmudder, and incredible holiday parties!
- Our annual global fitness challenge, SOPH-Fit, sees thousands of employees taking part in our virtual global race around the world
- Each quarter, we celebrate our exceptional global team by running the Sophos Values Awards, which recognizes and rewards employees who embody the Sophos values and who we are as a company
- Health care benefits available worldwide
Company HQ
Abingdon, UK
Leadership
Kris Hagerman
(CEO, not founder)Former CEO of Corel Corporation, who previously served as Group President of Data Center Management at Symantec. Was also Executive VP and GM of Storage and Server Management at Veritas Software, as well as CEO and Founder of both Bigbook and Affinia.
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