Senior Incident Response Analyst

Check Point Software; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Check Point Software in Chicago is seeking an experienced SOC professional to lead incident response on a global scale. You will analyze compromises, coordinate across teams, and develop playbooks to rapidly stop threats.

You will perform security reviews, run tabletop exercises, and guide teams through enterprise environments. The role requires a decade of cybersecurity experience and willingness to travel to client sites.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of cybersecurity experience with incident response focus.
• Experience with security reviews and vulnerability risk assessments.
• Experience with enterprise security solutions and crisis management.
• Experience with attack simulations for training security teams.
• Ability to participate in on-call rotation, including weekends.
• Domestic and international travel may be required.
• Must be eligible to work in the US without sponsorship.

Responsibilities

• Manage daily incident handling for customer incidents globally.
• Perform incident response and forensic analysis of compromises.
• Direct incident response, prioritize efforts, and craft reports.
• Coordinate with teams to manage complex global incidents.
• Conduct large-scale compromise assessments for customer environments.
• Develop incident response plans and playbooks.
• Create attack scenarios for tabletop exercises with customers.
• Produce detailed incident reports and communicate findings.
• Maintain sandbox/test lab environments to analyze malware.
• Collaborate within a team to coordinate work actions.

Skills

Incident response

Forensic analysis

Vulnerability risk assessments

Security reviews

Attack simulation

Global incident management

On-call rotation

Tools

Automated analysis tools

Job description

Why Join Us?

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.

Key Responsibilities

• 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
• Create attack scenarios for customer tabletop training exercises
• 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