Senior Incident Response Readiness Analyst

Eaton; Beachwood (OH); On-site; USD 113,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

Eaton’s Corporate Sector division seeks a Senior Incident Response Readiness Analyst to strengthen pre‑planning, response coordination, and recovery capabilities for cyber and operational disruptions. You will develop playbooks, advise Product Owners and stakeholders, and lead readiness exercises and training across technology, product, and business continuity domains.

The role centers on creating validated response plans, maintaining BCDR artifacts, and driving improvements to ensure timely,

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution.
• Minimum of five (5) years of experience in incident response readiness or related fields.
• Strong understanding of the incident response lifecycle.
• Authorized to work in the US without sponsorship and reside within 50 miles of Beachwood, OH / listed areas.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and update BCDR and incident response readiness artifacts, including BIAs, recovery plans, runbooks, incident response plans, playbooks, RTO/RPO targets, escalation paths, response owner rosters, and dependency mappings.
• Develop, maintain, validate, and improve incident response plans and playbooks for critical products, applications, services, business capabilities, and supporting technology environments.
• Advise Product Owners and business stakeholders on response roles, decision points, escalation criteria, communications expectations, recovery dependencies, plan ownership, maintenance responsibilities, and readiness requirements.
• Serve as an incident response coordinator during cyber, technology, or operational incidents by supporting playbook activation, war room coordination, containment and triage task tracking, action documentation, timeline management, stakeholder updates, and post‑incident review activities.
• Plan, design, and execute incident response readiness activities such as tabletop exercises, simulation drills, playbook walkthroughs, service failovers, and recovery rehearsals; define objectives, scenarios, success criteria, and evidence expectations.
• Author and maintain incident response materials, exercise materials, response checklists, evidence capture templates, communication guidance, lessons‑learned reports, maturity updates, and remediation tracking artifacts.
• Liaise with application, service, product, infrastructure, cybersecurity, business continuity, and business owners to validate response procedures, recovery procedures, escalation contacts, acceptance criteria, and response ownership.
• Coordinate with Crisis Management, Communications, Legal, cybersecurity, infrastructure, business continuity, and executive stakeholders to ensure integrated response, escalation, stakeholder briefing, and recovery planning alignment.
• Manage third‑party continuity and incident response dependencies by integrating vendor roles, escalation contacts, contractual expectations, service restoration assumptions, and recovery dependencies into plans, playbooks, and exercises.
• Measure and report incident response readiness program health, including plan coverage, playbook quality, exercise results, incident lifecycle metrics, time‑to‑coordinate containment or initial recovery actions, stakeholder readiness, training completion, and remediation closure.
• Train and onboard incident responders, Product Owners, business stakeholders, recovery participants, and support teams; deliver awareness sessions and readiness guidance to build organizational maturity in incident response planning and execution.

Skills

Incident response

Stakeholder advisory

Tabletop exercises

Governance

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

Incident response tooling

Job description

Eaton’s Corporate Sector division seeks a Senior Incident Response Readiness Analyst to strengthen pre‑planning, response coordination, and recovery capabilities for cyber and operational disruptions. You will develop playbooks, advise Product Owners and stakeholders, and lead readiness exercises and training across technology, product, and business continuity domains.

The role centers on creating validated response plans, maintaining BCDR artifacts, and driving improvements to ensure timely,