Incident Response Analyst

Check-Point-Software-Technologies-2; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Check Point is at the forefront of AI-driven security, protecting organizations worldwide from evolving cyber threats. This senior SOC role centers on daily incident management, incident response, and forensic analysis of compromised systems across global environments.

You will build incident response plans, deliver detailed reports, and coordinate actions within a team, including on-call rotations and travel as needed to support customers globally.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in cybersecurity with 2–5 years in T3 incident response.
• Experience with security reviews and risk assessments of networks.
• Experience with enterprise security solutions and incident crisis management.
• Experience with attack simulations for training security teams.
• Ability to participate in on-call rotation, including weekends.
• Willingness to travel domestically and internationally.
• Eligible to work in the US without sponsorship.

Responsibilities

• Manage daily incident management of customer incidents.
• Perform incident response and forensic analysis of compromised systems.
• Direct incident response efforts and create remediation reports.
• Handle global incidents with coordination across teams.
• Conduct large-scale compromise assessments for customers.
• Build incident response plans and playbooks.
• Create detailed incident reports and communicate findings to customers.
• Maintain sandbox/test lab environments to evaluate malware.
• Coordinate actions within a team and with stakeholders.

Skills

Incident response

Cybersecurity

Forensics

Threat analysis

Global incident management

On-call readiness

Travel flexibility

Job description

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.

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

• Responsible for daily incident management of customer incidents
• Perform incident response and forensic analysis of compromised systems, identify and provide recommendations for remediation
• Formulate and direct incident response efforts, prioritize those response efforts, and create legible incident reports that describe the compromise vector, attacker methodologies and artifacts
• Ability to manage complicated global incidents
• Ability to perform large-scale compromise assessments for customer environments
• Build incident response plans and playbooks
• Creation of detailed incident reports for customers and effective communication of findings to customers
• Build and maintain sandbox/test lab environments to evaluate malicious code
• Work within a team environment and will be responsible for coordinating work actions

Qualifications

• This is not an entry level SOC role.
• 10+ years of cybersecurity experience out of which 2-5 years are experience performing T3 incident response with an emphasis on system compromise analysis.
• Experience of performing security reviews/vulnerability risk assessments of network environments using both manual procedures and automated analysis tools.
• Experience with enterprise security solutions, incident crisis management.
• Experience with performing attack simulation for training security teams.
• Experience with creating procedures and documented plans for security teams.
• Ability to participate in on-call rotation, including at least one weekend a month.
• Domestic and International travel may be required.
• Must be eligible to work in the US without sponsorship from an employer now or in the future.

EOE M/F/Veterans/Disabled