Incident Response Analyst

Rolejob; Metro Manila; On-site; PHP 1,200,000 - 2,400,000; Full time

Job summary

Check Point is seeking a senior Incident Response/DFIR expert to lead end-to-end investigations. You will analyze Windows artifacts, telemetry, and logs to determine attacker activity, scope, and impact, and drive containment and remediation across enterprise environments.

The role requires strong communication with customer teams and stakeholders, and collaboration with global responders on complex incidents, including ransomware and intrusions.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of cybersecurity experience.
• Hands-on DFIR investigations and reporting.
• Experience with enterprise compromises and ransomware incidents.
• Ability to communicate findings to clients and stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end Incident Response and Digital Forensics investigations.
• Analyze Windows artifacts, telemetry, logs to identify attacker activity.
• Assess scope, impact, and containment for incidents.
• Develop remediation recommendations and incident reports.
• Communicate findings to customer teams and senior leadership.
• Collaborate with global teams on complex incidents.

Skills

DFIR

Incident Response

Forensics

Windows artifacts

Communication

Job description

Why Join Us

At Check Point, what you do matters. Every day, we protect over 100,000 organizations worldwide from increasingly sophisticated cyber and AI-driven threats, securing their AI transformation.

Company Description

At Check Point, what you do matters. Every day, we protect over 100,000 organizations worldwide from increasingly sophisticated cyber and AI-driven threats, securing their AI transformation.

Why Join Us

Our prevention-first approach safeguards hybrid networks, cloud environments, digital workspaces, and AI systems, stopping attacks before they happen.
This is where innovation meets real-world impact. You’ll help customers across industries operate with confidence in a rapidly changing digital world, working alongside smart, curious people who take ownership, challenge assumptions, and solve complex problems.
We’re proud to be recognized by TIME, Newsweek, and Forbes for excellence and workplace culture.
What really sets Check Point apart is the opportunity to grow, contribute, and help companies navigate their AI transformation securely.
If you’re excited to work at the forefront of AI-driven security on a global scale, this is the place to do it.

Job Description

• Lead and perform end-to-end Incident Response and Digital Forensics investigations, from initial scoping through containment, forensic investigation, remediation, and final reporting.
• Perform forensic analysis of compromised Windows and other enterprise systems to determine initial access, root cause, attacker activity, persistence, lateral movement, scope, and impact.
• Analyze endpoint, operating system, authentication, network, and security telemetry to reconstruct attacker activity and identify indicators of compromise.
• Lead response efforts during complex, large-scale, and global security incidents.
• Perform enterprise-wide compromise assessments to identify affected systems and evidence of malicious activity.
• Develop clear containment, eradication, recovery, and remediation recommendations.
• Produce detailed, high-quality incident investigation reports documenting attack vectors, attacker TTPs, findings, impact, and recommended actions.
• Clearly communicate technical findings and incident status to customer technical teams and senior stakeholders.
• Develop and improve incident response plans, procedures, and playbooks.
• Design realistic cyberattack scenarios and facilitate tabletop exercises.
• Build and maintain forensic and malware-analysis lab environments.
• Collaborate with global incident responders, forensic investigators, security researchers, and customer teams.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of cybersecurity experience.
• Minimum 4 years of hands-on DFIR/Incident Response experience investigating confirmed system or enterprise compromises.
• Demonstrated experience conducting forensic investigations to determine:
• Initial access and root cause
• Persistence mechanisms
• Credential compromise
• Privilege escalation
• Lateral movement
• Attacker TTPs
• Scope and impact of compromise
• Hands-on experience analyzing Windows forensic artifacts, endpoint telemetry, event logs, authentication activity, and network evidence.
• Experience responding to complex incidents such as ransomware, identity compromise, malware infections, and enterprise intrusions.
• Ability to independently scope and drive an investigation and develop defensible remediation recommendations.
• Strong experience producing customer-facing incident reports and presenting technical findings clearly.
• Experience developing incident response plans and playbooks.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and communication skills.
• Ability to work effectively during high-severity incidents requiring coordination across multiple teams and geographies.
• Ability to participate in an on-call rotation, including at least one weekend per month.
• Domestic and international travel may be required.