Senior Incident Response Engineer — Technical Incident Commander

nscaleoperationsukltd; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Nscale is seeking a Senior Staff Security Engineer, Incident Response to lead the technical response to our most serious cyber incidents and build capabilities that make future responses faster, safer and more decisive. This hands-on role sits in Cyber Defence and reports to the Director of Cyber Defence.

You will coordinate investigations across Linux and Windows hosts, cloud control planes, identity systems and networks, craft containment strategies, and translate lessons from incidents into

Qualifications

• 10+ years in incident response or related security roles.
• Led technical response to complex, high-severity incidents.
• Experience across cloud, on-prem, and hybrid environments.
• Deep knowledge of attacker behavior and security telemetry.

Responsibilities

• Lead the technical response to high-severity incidents across enterprise, identity, endpoint, cloud, and infrastructure.
• Develop a response engineering roadmap with automation and version-controlled playbooks.
• Create executable playbooks for cloud control-plane, ransomware and data exfiltration scenarios.
• Mentor incident responders and coordinate cross-functional teams.
• Drive post-incident reviews and permanent engineering improvements.

Skills

Incident response

Security engineering

Offensive security

Detection engineering

Vulnerability management

Job description

Nscale is seeking a Senior Staff Security Engineer, Incident Response to lead the technical response to our most serious cyber incidents and build capabilities that make future responses faster, safer and more decisive. This hands-on role sits in Cyber Defence and reports to the Director of Cyber Defence.

You will coordinate investigations across Linux and Windows hosts, cloud control planes, identity systems and networks, craft containment strategies, and translate lessons from incidents into