Senior Incident Response Lead

TENEX.AI; Missouri; On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Job summary

TENEX.AI in the United States is seeking a Senior Incident Responder to lead investigations, contain active threats, and guide customers through their most challenging security moments. You’ll own escalations end to end, shape how we respond as we grow, and build the track record to step into IR leadership as the team scales.

You will own escalations end to end, mentor SOC analysts, and help shape response playbooks as we scale.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in incident response with at least 2 years as a tier 3 analyst.
• End-to-end experience handling actual incidents from detection to recovery.
• Deep knowledge of attacker techniques, forensics, and modern detection tooling.
• Cloud incident response experience across AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Ability to communicate clearly with both technical teams and customers.

Responsibilities

• Lead incident investigations from detection through containment and recovery.
• Drive customer response as a calm, credible technical lead.
• Improve response playbooks with lessons from real incidents.
• Design and build data collection and preservation toolkit with engineering.
• Build and deliver the incident response readiness assessment program.
• Partner across Detection Engineering, Forward Deployment, and Software Engineering.
• Mentor the SOC analysts to raise investigation quality.

Skills

Incident response

Tier 3 analyst

End-to-end incident handling

Clear communication

Threat detection tooling

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science / Cybersecurity / IT

Tools

SIEM/SOAR

EDR

Cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure)

Job description

TENEX.AI in the United States is seeking a Senior Incident Responder to lead investigations, contain active threats, and guide customers through their most challenging security moments. You’ll own escalations end to end, shape how we respond as we grow, and build the track record to step into IR leadership as the team scales.

You will own escalations end to end, mentor SOC analysts, and help shape response playbooks as we scale.