Senior Incident Response Lead: Forensics & Threat Hunting

Forensic Focus; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Sinch in Chicago, IL is seeking a Senior Incident Response Engineer to lead the response to high-severity security incidents. You will coordinate cross-functional and external efforts, perform advanced forensic analysis, malware reverse engineering, and threat hunting to limit organizational impact.

You will mentor junior staff, develop playbooks, run simulations, and communicate technical findings to executives, legal, and law enforcement during major events.

Qualifications

• Requires deep expertise in incident response, forensics, malware reverse engineering.
• Experience building playbooks, mentoring junior staff.
• Ability to communicate findings to executives, legal, and law enforcement during major events.

Responsibilities

• Lead high-severity incident responses.
• Coordinate cross-functional and external teams.
• Develop containment, eradication, and recovery strategies.

Skills

Incident response

Digital forensics

Malware reverse engineering

Threat intelligence

Playbooks

Mentoring

Simulation exercises

Executive communication

Job description

Sinch in Chicago, IL is seeking a Senior Incident Response Engineer to lead the response to high-severity security incidents. You will coordinate cross-functional and external efforts, perform advanced forensic analysis, malware reverse engineering, and threat hunting to limit organizational impact.

You will mentor junior staff, develop playbooks, run simulations, and communicate technical findings to executives, legal, and law enforcement during major events.