Senior Incident Response Engineer – Forensics & Threat Detection

LexisNexis Risk Solutions; New Jersey; On-site; USD 89,000 - 142,000; Full time

Job summary

Elsevier, a global information analytics company, is seeking a Senior Incident Response Engineer in New Jersey to join its information security team. The role leads the incident response program, conducts cyber forensics, and coordinates investigations across cloud and on-prem environments.

You will develop incident response plans, generate comprehensive reports, and contribute to threat intelligence and remediation efforts to safeguard assets and data.

Qualifications

• Advanced knowledge of security for cloud-agnostic infrastructure.
• Ability to conduct forensic and incident response investigations.
• Understanding of incident response and risk mitigation workflows.
• Ability to analyze security events for anomalous activity.
• Experience developing remediation programs and security improvements.
• Experience with vulnerability assessment, malware reverse engineering, and threat reporting.
• Experience navigating Cloud and Web environments and related investigations.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute security incident response plans for cloud and on-prem endpoints.
• Lead full lifecycle investigations of reported security incidents.
• Create detailed incident reports and intelligence to detect high-confidence threats.
• Tune security controls and define mitigation rules; assist with troubleshooting.
• Review tools and processes to strengthen security capabilities and identify gaps.
• Lead analysis of security events and coordinate actions to protect assets.

Skills

Cloud security

Incident response

Forensic investigations

Threat analysis

Vulnerability assessment

Malware reverse engineering

Security certifications

Cloud/Web investigations

Job description

Elsevier, a global information analytics company, is seeking a Senior Incident Response Engineer in New Jersey to join its information security team. The role leads the incident response program, conducts cyber forensics, and coordinates investigations across cloud and on-prem environments.

You will develop incident response plans, generate comprehensive reports, and contribute to threat intelligence and remediation efforts to safeguard assets and data.