Hybrid Senior Incident Response Engineer

Western Union; Denver (CO); Hybrid; USD 165,000 - 185,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Tuition assistance

Employee discount

Parental leave

401K

Job summary

Western Union is seeking a senior cybersecurity professional in Denver for incident response, threat hunting and cyber defense leadership. The role is HYBRID with a minimum three days in the office to foster collaboration and program growth.

You will guide containment, remediation and lessons learned, serve as SME during IR engagements, and coordinate with the Cyber Fusion Center and vendor teams. Requirements include a bachelor’s in IT/cybersecurity, 7+ years in security, SIEM/EDR expertise,

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Cybersecurity, or Computer Science preferred.
• 7+ years of technology, information security and/or application security experience.
• Expert in top security flaws and resolutions as listed by OWASP, SANS etc.
• Strong experience with automation, automated runbooks, and ability to support the automation of high fidelity processes.
• Expert with SIEM, EDR, and other event correlation technologies.
• Experience with AI, generative and agentic, preferred.
• Strong experience across multiple Operating Systems.
• Knowledge of modern web and mobile applications frameworks and their security requirements.
• Knowledge of network architecture, protocols, and standards.
• Knowledge of Web Application Firewalls, SSL/TLS, Forward and reverse proxies.
• Knowledge of security considerations around virtualization and cloud applications.
• Experience with incident response, forensics and evidence preservation.
• Ability to communicate technical security requirements to technical and non-technical personnel.
• Ability to collaborate with technical and vendor personnel, cloud service providers.
• Available off-hours/on-call to handle occasional incidents and escalations.

Responsibilities

• Performs intrusion scope and root cause analysis
• Assists in containment and remediation actions
• Serves as escalation point for Cyber Fusion Center analysts
• Supports Purple Team engagements as a subject matter expert
• Conducts proactive Threat Hunting exercises based on relevant threat intelligence
• Works collaboratively with Security Operations teams to drive Incident Response/Threat Hunting and overall program maturity
• Conducts legal holds/forensic analysis across multiple operating systems as required
• Serves as a Subject Matter Expert in Incident Response, guides teams through lifecycle with containment/remediation/lessons learned
• Serves as the technical lead during Incident Response engagements
• Briefs Cybersecurity Leadership team throughout incidents

Skills

SIEM/EDR expertise

Automation & runbooks

IR/Forensics

Web/Mobile security

Networking knowledge

Cloud security

Communication

On-call availability

Multi-OS mastery

Education

Bachelor’s degree in IT/Cybersecurity/CS

Job description

Western Union is seeking a senior cybersecurity professional in Denver for incident response, threat hunting and cyber defense leadership. The role is HYBRID with a minimum three days in the office to foster collaboration and program growth.

You will guide containment, remediation and lessons learned, serve as SME during IR engagements, and coordinate with the Cyber Fusion Center and vendor teams. Requirements include a bachelor’s in IT/cybersecurity, 7+ years in security, SIEM/EDR expertise,