Remote Incident Response Senior Leader

Cognizant; Juneau (AK); On-site; USD 135,000 - 145,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

Paid holidays + PTO

401(k) plan

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Parental Leave

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking an Incident Response Senior Manager to lead end-to-end cybersecurity incident response activities, coordinating across SOC, forensics, DLP, and cloud security. You will guide communications with executives and clients, triage incidents, and drive multi-domain responses, ensuring timely, high-quality outcomes.

This remote US role offers strong growth, market-competitive salary, and eligibility for Cognizant’s incentive program.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in incident management, cybersecurity operations, or a related discipline.
• At least 3 years in a leadership or incident response lead capacity.
• Ability to independently assume incident command responsibilities during critical and high-severity incidents.
• Experience coordinating cross-functional response teams across multiple cybersecurity disciplines.
• Expertise in Cyber Security operations, incident response methodologies, escalation management, and crisis communication.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to communicate effectively with technical and executive audiences.
• Demonstrated ability to exercise sound judgment and make decisions under pressure.

Responsibilities

• Assume the Incident Commander role without prompting, immediately triaging incident severity, assembling response teams, and initiating appropriate workflows and standard operating procedures.
• Make autonomous real-time containment, escalation, and communication decisions during high-severity incidents, including situations with incomplete information.
• Own end-to-end response activities for cybersecurity incidents, coordinating across SOC, forensics, DLP, cloud security, legal, compliance, and client account teams.
• Orchestrate multi-domain security functions including SIEM, investigations, forensics, cloud controls, security architecture, policy, and data protection to ensure aligned and timely response activities.
• Lead all incident communications including war room updates, executive briefings, stakeholder communications, and client-facing notifications with clarity and confidence.

Skills

Incident management

Cybersecurity operations

Leadership

Crisis communication

Cross-functional coordination

Executive communication

Decision making under pressure

Tools

SIEM platforms

Digital forensics

DLP technologies

Cloud security controls

Security monitoring

Job description

Cognizant is seeking an Incident Response Senior Manager to lead end-to-end cybersecurity incident response activities, coordinating across SOC, forensics, DLP, and cloud security. You will guide communications with executives and clients, triage incidents, and drive multi-domain responses, ensuring timely, high-quality outcomes.

This remote US role offers strong growth, market-competitive salary, and eligibility for Cognizant’s incentive program.