Lead/ Senior Security Engineer- Incident Response - CSIRT - Cloud Security

FICO; United States; Remote; USD 137,000 - 215,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-work option

Job summary

FICO is seeking a Senior/Lead Incident Response Engineer to lead defensive security operations, owning detection, containment, and recovery from incidents. You will design tabletop exercises, drive cross‑team readiness, and strengthen IR capabilities with threat intel, SOC, and engineering collaboration.

The role emphasizes cross‑functional leadership, forensics support, and cloud security expertise, including AI/automation integration in IR workflows. Remote options are available.

Qualifications

• Experience designing and facilitating IR tabletop exercises across cross‑functional teams.
• Ability to drive improvements from IR findings and exercise results.
• Familiarity with forensics tools and cloud security fundamentals.

Responsibilities

• Design and facilitate incident response tabletop exercises across security, IT, engineering, legal, and business teams, testing preparedness and surfacing gaps.
• Own the full incident lifecycle: detection, triage, containment, eradication, recovery, and post‑incident review.
• Build and maintain IR plans, playbooks, and runbooks for consistent response.

Skills

IR tabletop exercises

IR lifecycle

communication

incident response

Tools

Magnet Axiom

Velociraptor

Volatility

FTK

Autopsy

AWS Cloud security

Job description

FICO (NYSE: FICO) is a leading global analytics software company, helping businesses in 100+ countries make better decisions. Join our world‑class team today and fulfill your career potential!

The Opportunity

As a Senior/Lead Incident Response Engineer at FICO, you will lead our defensive security operations with a strong focus on people, preparedness, and cross‑team readiness. You will own how FICO detects, contains, and recovers from security incidents, and build the organizational readiness that makes that possible. You will be responsible for designing and running tabletop exercises that bring stakeholders from across the business together and keep them engaged from planning through execution. If you love building trust across teams and shaping how FICO prepares for security incidents, this role is for you.

What You’ll Contribute

• Design and facilitate incident response tabletop exercises across security, IT, engineering, legal, and business teams, testing preparedness and surfacing gaps.
• Own the full incident lifecycle: detection, triage, containment, eradication, recovery, and post‑incident review.
• Build and maintain IR plans, playbooks, and runbooks for consistent, repeatable response.
• Partner with threat intelligence, SOC, and engineering to turn IR and exercise findings into stronger detection and controls.
• Communicate clearly with stakeholders at all levels, during incidents and in reporting.
• Support digital forensics investigations, apply the PICERL and NIST frameworks, and lead IR activities in cloud environments using SIEM, CSPM, and other cloud security tooling.
• Bring an IR perspective to FICO’s cloud and AI security programs and use AI and automation in IR and tabletop exercise workflows.

What We’re Seeking

• In-depth experience designing and facilitating IR tabletop exercises or similar simulations, including engaging cross‑functional participants and turning results into real improvements.
• Strong interpersonal skills: calm under pressure, a skilled facilitator, a trusted relationship‑builder across teams, and an effective coach and mentor.
• Experience in enterprise incident response across the full IR lifecycle.
• Good working knowledge of forensics tools (such as Magnet Axiom, Velociraptor, Volatility, FTK, Autopsy) and AWS cloud security fundamentals.
• Good understanding of cloud security and AI security concepts.
• Must have at least one of the following certifications, or similar: GCIH, GCFA, GCFE, AWS Certified Solutions Architect, or CISSP.

Our Offer to You

An inclusive culture strongly reflecting our core values: Act Like an Owner, Delight Our Customers and Earn the Respect of Others. The opportunity to make an impact and develop professionally by leveraging your unique strengths and participating in valuable learning experiences.

Highly competitive compensation, benefits and rewards programs that encourage you to bring your best every day and be recognized for doing so. An engaging, people‑first work environment offering work/life balance, employee resource groups, and social events to promote interaction and camaraderie.

The targeted base pay range for this role is: $136,500 to $214,500 with this range reflecting differences in candidate knowledge, skills and experience.

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Why Make a Move to FICO?

At FICO, you can develop your career with a leading organization in one of the fastest‑growing fields in technology today – Big Data analytics. You’ll play a part in our commitment to help businesses use data to improve every choice they make, using advances in artificial intelligence, machine learning, optimization, and much more.

FICO makes a real difference in the way businesses operate worldwide:

• Credit Scoring — FICO® Scores are used by 90 of the top 100 US lenders.
• Fraud Detection and Security — 4 billion payment cards globally are protected by FICO fraud systems.
• Lending — 3/4 of US mortgages are approved using the FICO Score.

Global trends toward digital transformation have created tremendous demand for FICO’s solutions, placing us among the world’s top 100 software companies by revenue. We help many of the world’s largest banks, insurers, retailers, telecommunications providers and other firms reach a new level of success.

Our success is dependent on really talented people – just like you – who thrive on the collaboration and innovation that’s nurtured by a diverse and inclusive environment. We’ll provide the support you need, while ensuring you have the freedom to develop your skills and grow your career.

Join FICO and help change the way business thinks! Learn more about how you can fulfil your potential at www.fico.com/Careers

FICO promotes a culture of inclusion and seeks to attract a diverse set of candidates for each job opportunity. We are an equal employment opportunity employer and we’re proud to offer employment and advancement opportunities to all candidates without regard to race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, pregnancy, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. Research has shown that women and candidates from underrepresented communities may not apply for an opportunity if they don’t meet all stated qualifications. While our qualifications are clearly related to role success, each candidate’s profile is unique and strengths in certain skill and/or experience areas can be equally effective. If you believe you have many, but not necessarily all, of the stated qualifications we encourage you to apply.

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FICO powers decisions that help people and businesses around the world prosper. Founded in 1956, FICO has been the trusted backbone of financial decisioning for more than seven decades. We empower businesses worldwide with applied intelligence and advanced analytics to transform complex data into fair, explainable, and actionable decisions — enabling smarter outcomes, stronger customer relationships, and sustainable growth. FICO clients include more than half of the top 100 banks in the world, more than 600 personal and commercial line insurers in North America and Europe, 400+ retailers and general merchandisers, all of the 100 largest U.S. credit card issuers, and more. FICO is a global leader in analytics software, empowering businesses to make smarter, faster decisions through cutting‑edge data science, machine learning, and AI. Creators of the iconic FICO® Score — the standard in credit decisioning — and recognized in both the Forrester Wave™ and Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for its decision intelligence. FICO delivers a powerful platform built on Applied Intelligence, combining advanced analytics with explainable AI to drive transparency, reduce risk, and enable hyper‑personalized customer experiences at scale. Trusted by organizations across financial services, insurance, payments, and beyond, FICO turns data into decisions that matter.