Senior Incident Responder (Cybersecurity)

Location: Onsite in New Carrollton, Maryland or Memphis, Tennessee, United States. Requires onsite presence at client facilities as directed.

Salary: $130K–$170K DOE.

Company

hirify.global delivers advanced technology solutions and mission support to federal agencies across civilian, health, and national security environments, including AI/ML, cloud, cybersecurity, and IT modernization capabilities.

What you will do

• Lead incident analysis in a 24x7x365 Security Operations Center supporting a large federal agency.
• Assign and review incident responder work and guide responder development.
• Analyze suspected incidents, affected systems, indicators of compromise, event timelines, operational impact, and likely causes.
• Correlate logs, alerts, artifacts, reports, threat intelligence, and other approved sources.
• Document evidence, confidence levels, findings, timelines, and recommended response or remediation actions in Incident Analysis Reports.
• Coordinate with client IT organizations, contractors, vendors, and authorized stakeholders, and use lessons learned to improve monitoring, triage, escalation, and analysis procedures.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field and 7+ years of relevant professional experience; three additional years of relevant experience may substitute for the degree.
• Seasoned technical individual contributor, fully proficient in applying technical principles, theories, and concepts in the field.
• Ability to develop solutions to difficult and unclear technical problems requiring deep technical knowledge.
• Deep understanding of the principles, theories, and concepts of the technical domain, with broad understanding of related specialty areas.
• Experience performing in-depth incident analysis in large enterprise environments, including log analysis and IOC correlation.
• Expertise with SIEM, EDR, and network security monitoring tools.
• Working knowledge of NIST SP 800-61 and the MITRE ATT&CK framework.
• Must be a U.S. Citizen and able to obtain a Public Trust clearance.

Nice to have

• Experience supporting federal government contracts as a contractor, including contract performance standards, deliverable schedules, and government review and approval processes.
• Certifications such as GCIH, GCIA, GCFA, or CISSP.
• Experience analyzing incidents in AWS and Microsoft Azure/M365 environments.
• Experience with SOAR playbooks and automation.

Culture & Benefits

• Family-focused culture and dynamic, productive work environment.
• Medical insurance plans, including HSA-eligible options.
• Employer-paid dental and vision insurance options, plus employer-sponsored short-term disability, long-term disability, and life insurance.
• 5% 401(k) company matching, paid holidays, PTO accrual plans, and paid parental leave.
• Flexible schedules, teleworking options, professional development, career growth opportunities, and team events.