Cyber Defense and Incident Response Analyst (Cybersecurity)

Location: Hybrid schedule with three days per week at a Guardian office in New York, NY, or Holmdel, NJ; 20% travel to other Guardian offices as needed. Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States without employer sponsorship.

Salary: $95,170–$156,355 per year, plus potential incentive compensation.

Company

hirify.global is an insurance organization providing a collaborative, regulated environment focused on well-being, ethical standards, and professional development.

What you will do

• Investigate complex, high-impact cyber incidents escalated from the SOC and lead technical response activities.
• Coordinate identification, containment, investigation, response, and recovery with cybersecurity, IT, engineering, legal, business continuity, and other teams.
• Develop and refine incident response plans, playbooks, quick-reference guides, crisis communications procedures, and SOC operating procedures.
• Improve logging, monitoring, detection coverage, UBA capabilities, automation, and security control effectiveness.
• Lead incident response training, debriefs, after-action reporting, metrics, risk mitigation initiatives, and cyber defense maturity improvements.
• Support DLP and insider risk programs, audits, regulatory requests, vendor management, roadmap development, and talent planning.

Requirements

• 5–7 years of cybersecurity experience focused on digital forensics, incident response, SOC operations, or threat mitigation.
• Strong knowledge of incident response methodologies, digital forensics, evidence handling, threat hunting, malware analysis, attacker techniques, and vulnerabilities.
• Experience with enterprise, public cloud, and SaaS environments, including SIEM, log analytics, monitoring, insider threat, and UBA concepts.
• Experience with AI models and LLMs, including implementing AI for cyber detection and response.
• Practical experience with NIST CSF, MITRE ATT&CK, and related security frameworks.
• Legal authorization to work in the United States without employer visa sponsorship is required.

Nice to have

• Experience in regulated financial services or insurance environments and knowledge of U.S. privacy regulations.
• BS or MS in cybersecurity or digital forensics, or equivalent experience and industry certifications.
• Experience leading, mentoring, and developing high-performing technical teams.

Culture & Benefits

• Support for professional and personal goals through skill-building and leadership development.
• Opportunities to participate in philanthropic initiatives and community-building activities.
• Contemporary, supportive, flexible, and inclusive benefits and resources for eligible full-time employees.
• Collaboration with diverse colleagues and cross-functional partners.