Remote Incident Response Senior Manager

Cognizant; Montpelier (VT); On-site; USD 135,000 - 145,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

Paid holidays and PTO

401(k) plan and contributions

Long-term/Short-term Disability

Paid Parental Leave

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking an experienced Incident Response Senior Manager to drive end-to-end cyber incident handling. You will lead cross-functional teams across SOC, forensics, DLP, cloud security, and legal, delivering decisive decisions under pressure.

The role offers a remote work model for qualified US applicants, with a focus on leadership, strategy, and executive communication. Competitive salary and incentive programs apply.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in incident management, cybersecurity operations, or a related discipline.
• At least 3 years of experience 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 with the ability to communicate effectively with technical and executive audiences.
• Demonstrated ability to exercise sound judgment and make decisions under pressure.

Responsibilities

• Assume Incident Commander role and triage severity, assemble response teams, and initiate workflows.
• Make autonomous containment, escalation, and communication decisions during high-severity incidents.
• Own end-to-end response activities, coordinating across SOC, forensics, DLP, cloud security, legal, compliance, and client teams.
• Orchestrate multi-domain security functions including SIEM, investigations, forensics, cloud controls, security architecture, policy, and data protection.
• Lead all incident communications including war room updates, executive briefings, stakeholder communications, and client-facing notifications.

Skills

Incident management

Cybersecurity operations

Leadership

Crisis communication

Verbal and written communication

Tools

SIEM platforms

Digital forensics

DLP technologies

Cloud security controls

Job description

Cognizant is seeking an experienced Incident Response Senior Manager to drive end-to-end cyber incident handling. You will lead cross-functional teams across SOC, forensics, DLP, cloud security, and legal, delivering decisive decisions under pressure.

The role offers a remote work model for qualified US applicants, with a focus on leadership, strategy, and executive communication. Competitive salary and incentive programs apply.