Incident Response Engineer

The role

The Incident Response engineer manages security incident response processes, investigates threats, and implements corrective actions. They analyze security alerts, perform triage, and coordinate responses to contain and remediate incidents.

What you will do

• Conduct thorough investigations, digital forensics, and malware analysis
• Preserve digital evidence
• Manage cybersecurity incident and spillage response processes
• Develop, maintain, and improve incident response playbooks
• Participate in threat hunting activities
• Conduct post-incident reviews to generate reports and track metrics
• Configure and maintain incident response tools and systems, including SIEM solutions
• Contribute to security awareness efforts through training and exercises
• Stay current with emerging threats and best practices
• Collaborate with IT and security teams to enhance incident response capabilities

Required qualifications

• Bachelors degree or 4 years of experience in cyber, security incident response, operations, cloud, systems engineering, digital forensics, or cyber investigations
• Active Secret, Top Secret, TS/SCI, or TS/SCI with Polygraph clearance required

Benefits

• hands-on experience
• certifications
• industry training

Before you apply

• Applicants must have work authorization that does not now or in the future require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the United States
• Candidates currently employed by a client of Accenture Federal Services or an affiliated Accenture business may not be eligible for consideration

About the company

Accenture Federal Services is a technology company within global Accenture that serves the US federal government. Its 13,000+ people work across defense, national security, public safety, civilian, and military health organizations.