Remote Incident Response Analyst — High-Impact Breaches

Hamilton Barnes ?; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 45,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

Hamilton Barnes is seeking an Incident Response Analyst for a fully remote role in the UK. You will lead the full lifecycle of cyber incidents across enterprise environments, triaging, containing, eradicating and recovering while guiding client stakeholders.

The role emphasizes real-world breaches, development of playbooks, mentoring junior analysts, and improving detection and response capabilities within SIEM/EDR/SOAR tooling.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of incident response, SOC, or security consulting
• Experience handling high-severity client incidents
• Strong networking, endpoint security, and digital forensics knowledge

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end lifecycle of cyber incidents from triage to recovery
• Conduct forensic investigations across endpoints, networks and cloud
• Lead live compromise assessments for suspected breaches
• Develop incident response playbooks and runbooks
• Deliver post-incident reviews and remediation strategies
• Produce incident and forensic reports for technical and non-technical audiences

Skills

Incident response

SOC experience

Communication

Mentorship

Calm under pressure

Tools

Microsoft Defender

Microsoft Sentinel

CrowdStrike

SentinelOne

Job description

Hamilton Barnes is seeking an Incident Response Analyst for a fully remote role in the UK. You will lead the full lifecycle of cyber incidents across enterprise environments, triaging, containing, eradicating and recovering while guiding client stakeholders.

The role emphasizes real-world breaches, development of playbooks, mentoring junior analysts, and improving detection and response capabilities within SIEM/EDR/SOAR tooling.