Incident Responder 1

Bentley Systems; Philadelphia (Philadelphia County); Hybrid; USD 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Bentley Systems is seeking an Incident Responder I to join the Security Operations Center in a hybrid setup in the USA. You will verify automation conclusions, take containment actions, and feed learnings into detections and playbooks across cloud environments.

This entry-level role offers a path into detection engineering and security architecture, with opportunities to grow while handling routine and complex incidents in a modern tooling stack including CrowdStrike, Wiz, and Microsoft Sentinel.

Qualifications

• 1–2 years of education or training in a security-related field, or equivalent work experience in IT roles.
• Working knowledge of operating systems, authentication protocols, network protocols and topologies, email systems, and cloud service models (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS).
• A basic understanding of cyberattacks and threats, using the MITRE ATT&CK framework as a reference.
• Comfort working alongside automation: you can read an automated investigation summary, judge whether it is right, and explain why.
• Curiosity and a habit of writing things down. The value of this role is in what you feed back into the system.
• Availability for a shift rotation as part of a 24×7 operation.
• This is a full‑time role expected to work 40 hours per week, based in the USA and does not require travel.
• Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S. without current or future employer sponsorship.

Responsibilities

• Monitor and respond to alerts and cases from the SIEM, SOAR, endpoint, and cloud security platforms, including the output of automated investigation agents.
• Review automated verdicts — malicious, not malicious, inconclusive — and act on them: confirm and close, elevate, or contain within the approved autonomy tier (isolate a host, revoke a session, block an indicator).
• Own the inconclusive queue: investigate what automation could not resolve and document the outcome so the same class of case can be automated next time.
• Hand off and receive incidents cleanly across shifts with complete, structured notes; ...; ...
• Sample automated verdicts for accuracy (false positives and false negatives) and report findings; your sampling doubles as audit evidence for our compliance program.
• Tune existing detections and playbooks based on what your shift observed; keep runbooks current.
• Watch the health of the tooling the SOC depends on — sensor coverage, connector status, log sources — and raise gaps before they become blind spots.
• Contribute to detection-as-code: propose new detections and playbook steps, version them, and test them with a senior engineer.
• Learn the behavioral baselines of AI agents operating in our environment and flag abnormal agent activity — a new class of alert this SOC owns.
• Take part in post-incident reviews and turn lessons into automation requests for the engineering team.

Skills

Security operations

Automation familiarity

Shift work readiness

US work authorization

MITRE ATT&CK awareness

Education

Security-related education or IT training

Tools

CrowdStrike

Wiz

Microsoft Sentinel

SIEM/SOAR

Job description

Work mode: hybrid preferred, remote considered

Bentley Systems

Position Location Details

• Country: USA
• Work mode: hybrid preferred, remote considered

Position Summary

Bentley’s Information Security team is building a security operation where automation does the first pass and people do the judgment. Automated investigation agents already triage most of our alerts, investigate cloud risks, and test our own defenses around the clock. What they cannot do is decide whether they were right, handle the cases they could not resolve, or make the next detection better.

As an Incident Responder I, you join the Security Operations Center at the point where an alert becomes a decision. You will verify what automation concluded, own the cases it hands back, take containment actions within clearly defined limits, and feed what you learn back into detections and playbooks. You will work with modern tooling — CrowdStrike, Wiz, a cloud-native SIEM and SOAR platform — across a global engineering and SaaS environment spanning three public clouds.

This is an entry point, not a destination. The role is designed so that the share of your time spent on routine response falls as your share of engineering and improvement work grows, and it sits on a defined career path into detection engineering, security engineering, architecture, or governance.

Responsibilities

Keep us safe today

• Monitor and respond to alerts and cases from the SIEM, SOAR, endpoint, and cloud security platforms, including the output of automated investigation agents.
• Review automated verdicts — malicious, not malicious, inconclusive — and act on them: confirm and close, elevate, or contain within the approved autonomy tier (isolate a host, revoke a session, block an indicator).
• Own the inconclusive queue: investigate what automation could not resolve and document the outcome so the same class of case can be automated next time.
• Hand off and receive incidents cleanly across shifts with complete, structured notes; ...; ...

Sharpen What We Have

• Sample automated verdicts for accuracy (false positives and false negatives) and report findings; your sampling doubles as audit evidence for our compliance program.
• Tune existing detections and playbooks based on what your shift observed; keep runbooks current.
• Watch the health of the tooling the SOC depends on — sensor coverage, connector status, log sources — and raise gaps before they become blind spots.

Help Build What’s Next

• Contribute to detection-as-code: propose new detections and playbook steps, version them, and test them with a senior engineer.
• Learn the behavioral baselines of AI agents operating in our environment and flag abnormal agent activity — a new class of alert this SOC owns.
• Take part in post-incident reviews and turn lessons into automation requests for the engineering team.

Qualifications

• 1–2 years of education or training in a security-related field, or equivalent work experience in IT roles such as desktop support, network operations, or systems administration.
• Working knowledge of operating systems, authentication protocols, network protocols and topologies, email systems, and cloud service models (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS).
• A basic understanding of cyberattacks and threats, using the MITRE ATT&CK framework as a reference.
• Comfort working alongside automation: you can read an automated investigation summary, judge whether it is right, and explain why.
• Curiosity and a habit of writing things down. The value of this role is in what you feed back into the system.
• Availability for a shift rotation as part of a 24×7 operation.
• This is a full‑time role expected to work 40 hours per week, based in the USA and does not require travel.
• Requires sitting or standing at will while performing work on a computer.
• Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S. without current or future employer sponsorship.

Preferred Qualifications

• Exposure to SOAR playbooks, scripting (Python or PowerShell), or query languages such as KQL or SPL.
• Hands‑on time with CrowdStrike Falcon, Wiz, Microsoft Sentinel or a comparable SIEM.
• Security+, CySA+, or a similar foundational certification — or the intent to earn one; we fund training and certifications.

About Bentley Systems

Around the world, infrastructure professionals rely on software from Bentley Systems to help them design, build, and operate better and more resilient infrastructure for transportation, water, energy, cities, and more. Founded in 1984 by engineers for engineers, Bentley is the partner of choice for engineering firms and owner‑operators worldwide, with software that spans engineering disciplines, industry sectors, and all phases of the infrastructure lifecycle. Through our digital twin solutions, we help infrastructure professionals unlock the value of their data to transform project delivery and asset performance. www.bentley.com

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