Senior Incident Response Leader — Remote

Cognizant; Annapolis (MD); Remote; USD 135,000 - 145,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off

401(k) plan and contributions

Long-term/Short-term Disability

Paid Parental Leave

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking an experienced Incident Response Senior Manager to lead end-to-end cybersecurity incident response activities, coordinating across SOC, forensics, DLP, cloud security, legal, compliance, and client teams.

The role emphasizes autonomous decision-making, incident commander responsibilities, and executive-level communications, with a flexible work model in the United States.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in incident management, cybersecurity operations, or a related field.
• At least 3 years in a leadership or incident response lead capacity.
• Ability to independently assume incident command during critical/high-severity incidents.
• Experience coordinating cross-functional response teams across multiple cybersecurity disciplines.
• Excellent verbal and written communication with technical and executive audiences.

Responsibilities

• Assume the Incident Commander role, triaging incident severity, assembling response teams, and initiating workflows.
• Autonomous real-time containment, escalation, and communication decisions during high-severity incidents.
• Own end-to-end response activities, coordinating across SOC, forensics, DLP, cloud security, legal, and client teams.
• Orchestrate multi-domain security functions to ensure aligned and timely response activities.
• Lead all incident communications including war room updates and client-facing notifications.

Skills

Incident management

Leadership

Cybersecurity operations

Crisis communication

Education

Industry security certifications

Tools

SIEM platforms

Digital forensics

DLP technologies

Cloud security controls

Job description

Cognizant is seeking an experienced Incident Response Senior Manager to lead end-to-end cybersecurity incident response activities, coordinating across SOC, forensics, DLP, cloud security, legal, compliance, and client teams.

The role emphasizes autonomous decision-making, incident commander responsibilities, and executive-level communications, with a flexible work model in the United States.