Incident Response Analyst

Check-Point-Software-Technologies-2; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Check Point is seeking a senior cybersecurity incident responder to manage daily customer incidents, perform forensic analysis, and guide remediation. You will articulate compromise vectors, coordinate across teams, and build robust incident response playbooks for global environments.

Join a team that drives proactive protection, conducts large-scale assessments, and communicates findings clearly to customers while supporting on-call rotations and travel as needed.

Qualifications

• This is not an entry level SOC role.
• 10+ years of cybersecurity experience including 2–5 years in T3 incident response.
• Experience with security reviews/vulnerability assessments of networks using manual and automated tools.
• Experience with enterprise security solutions and incident crisis management.
• Experience with attack simulations for security teams.

Responsibilities

• Daily incident management of customer incidents.
• Perform incident response and forensic analysis of compromised systems with remediation recommendations.
• Lead incident response efforts and document attack vectors and methodologies.
• Manage complicated global incidents and large-scale compromise assessments.
• Build incident response plans and playbooks; create detailed customer reports.
• Create detailed incident reports and communicate findings to customers.
• Build and maintain sandbox/testing environments to evaluate malicious code.
• Coordinate work actions within a team.

Skills

Cybersecurity

Incident response

T3 incident response

Security reviews

Crisis management

Attack simulation

Playbooks/build procedures

On-call rotation

Travel

Work authorization

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT or related field

Tools

SIEM

Forensic tools

Sandbox testing

Job description

• Career site Category: Security & Risk Management

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