Principal, Cybersecurity Incident Responder - Remote

Stryker Employment Company, LLC; Portage (MI); Remote; USD 170,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Stryker is seeking a Principal Cybersecurity Incident Responder to lead high‑impact cyber incident responses with senior technical direction. The role involves guiding investigations through containment, eradication, and recovery, and coordinating across multiple security disciplines.

You will strengthen readiness with playbooks, exercises, telemetry, and automation, including AI‑driven opportunities. The position emphasizes mentorship, strategic decision‑making, and collaboration across global

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity or related field.
• 8+ years of relevant cybersecurity incident response experience.
• Relevant certifications preferred (CISSP, GCIH, OSIR, GCFA, GCFE).

Responsibilities

• Lead the technical response to significant and complex cybersecurity incidents from initial investigation through containment, eradication, and recovery.
• Establish technical priorities and make timely, risk-based decisions during rapid changes.
• Coordinate across Investigations, Detection Engineering, Security Engineering, CTI, Threat Hunting, Forensics, Security Operations, and other teams.
• Apply attacker TTPs to incidents including ransomware, data exfiltration, cloud compromise, and lateral movement.
• Develop and improve incident response playbooks, procedures, and technical capabilities.
• Design and facilitate tabletop exercises to validate response capabilities.

Skills

Incident response

Digital forensics

Threat hunting

Security operations

Cloud security

Team leadership

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity or related field

8+ years cybersecurity incident response experience

Job description

Work Flexibility: Remote The Principal Cybersecurity Incident Responder is a senior technical cybersecurity leader responsible for leading the response to significant and complex cybersecurity incidents. This role establishes technical priorities, drives investigations, and guides incidents through containment, eradication, and recovery. You will apply broad cybersecurity expertise and deep, hands‑on incident response experience to make timely, risk‑based decisions in complex and rapidly evolving situations. During significant incidents, you will serve as the Technical Response Lead, partnering closely with Investigations, Detection Engineering, Security Engineering, Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI), Threat Hunting, Forensics, Security Operations, and other cybersecurity specialists. Outside of active incidents, you will strengthen response readiness by improving playbooks, exercises, telemetry, tooling, automation, and lessons‑learned processes, including identifying responsible opportunities to leverage AI. Preference will be given to candidates located in Eastern or Central time zones to support effective collaboration during core business hours.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• Lead the technical response to significant and complex cybersecurity incidents from initial investigation through containment, eradication, and recovery.
• Establish technical priorities, maintain momentum, and make timely, risk‑based decisions when information is incomplete, conflicting, or rapidly changing.
• Partner across Investigations, Detection Engineering, Security Engineering, CTI, Threat Hunting, Forensics, Security Operations, and other teams to determine incident scope and coordinate response actions.
• Apply deep knowledge of attacker tactics, techniques, and procedures to incidents involving identity compromise, ransomware, malware, cloud compromise, lateral movement, data exfiltration, and other advanced threats.
• Evaluate investigative findings, identify critical gaps, test hypotheses, and translate available evidence into effective containment, eradication, and recovery strategies.
• Balance rapid containment with business impact, operational continuity, evidence preservation, and the need to fully understand incident scope.
• Develop and continuously improve incident response playbooks, procedures, and technical capabilities based on real‑world incidents, exercises, emerging threats, and lessons learned.
• Design and facilitate technical tabletop exercises and simulations to validate response capabilities and identify improvement opportunities.
• Identify telemetry, tooling, access, and visibility gaps and partner with technical teams to strengthen detection and response capabilities.
• Leverage AI, automation, and orchestration where appropriate to accelerate investigation and response while maintaining appropriate human oversight.
• Lead technical contributions to post‑incident reviews and drive improvements across telemetry, detections, tooling, automation, procedures, and training.
• Serve as a senior technical resource and mentor, strengthening incident response capabilities and decision‑making across the cybersecurity organization.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Technology, Information Security, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant professional experience.
• 8+ years of relevant cybersecurity experience across incident response, digital forensics, threat hunting, security operations, security engineering, or related disciplines.
• Relevant industry certifications in incident response, digital forensics, security operations, cloud security, or related cybersecurity disciplines preferred.

Preferred Qualifications

• CISSP - Preferred
• GCIH - Preferred
• Other relevant Incident Response certification - (e.g., ECIH, OSIR)
• Digital Forensics certification - e.g., GCFA, GCFE, CHFI
• CISM GSOC
• Demonstrated experience leading the technical response to significant or complex cybersecurity incidents involving multiple technical teams and stakeholders.
• Significant hands‑on experience investigating and responding to a range of sophisticated cyberattacks.
• Strong understanding of modern attacker tactics, techniques, and procedures and the ability to apply that knowledge during active incidents.
• Broad technical knowledge of endpoint, identity, network, cloud, email, and enterprise security technologies, including the telemetry used to investigate attacks across these environments.
• Demonstrated ability to evaluate evidence, test hypotheses, identify investigative gaps, and make sound decisions with incomplete or rapidly changing information.
• Experience developing or improving incident response playbooks, procedures, exercises, or operational capabilities.
• Ability to communicate complex technical situations clearly and concisely to technical responders, cybersecurity leadership, and non‑technical stakeholders.
• Ability to coordinate and influence cross‑functional technical teams without direct authority and operate effectively in a high‑pressure, global environment.

Pay Ranges

United States of America Pay Ranges: USN: $135,600 - $225,900 USD Annual US5: $142,400 - $237,200 USD Annual US10: $149,200 - $248,500 USD Annual US15: $155,900 - $259,800 USD Annual US20: $162,700 - $271,100 USD Annual US30: $176,300 - $293,700 USD Annual View the U.S. work location and transparency guide to find the pay range for your location.

Travel Percentage: 20%

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

Stryker Corporation is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status.

Stryker is an EO employer – M/F/Veteran/Disability.

Stryker Corporation will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information.

About Stryker

Stryker is one of the world’s leading medical technology companies and, together with its customers, is driven to make healthcare better. We offer innovative products and services in Orthopaedics, Medical and Surgical, and Neurotechnology and Spine that help improve patient and hospital outcomes. We are proud to be named one of the World’s Best Workplaces! For more information, visit: www.stryker.com

Work Flexibility

• Remote – Role allows you to work the majority to 100% of time from an alternate workplace. These roles could have travel expectations, and you must work within the country of the job requisition location.
• Field‑based – You can expect to regularly work a majority to 100% of time at customer facilities and has a set territory or expectation to travel within a set boundary. Almost all sales roles would likely be qualified as field‑based.
• Onsite – Role is 100% located at a Stryker facility. Some ad hoc flexibility may be available depending on role, level, and job requirements. Manufacturing roles and any role that requires physical presence at the office would qualify under this category.
• Hybrid – You can expect to regularly work in both an alternate workplace and a Stryker facility. Roles that are partially remote or co‑located would qualify as hybrid, and the expectation to be onsite would be defined and agreed upon by your manager/supervisor.