Anaplan
Threat Response Engineer IV
London, United Kingdom. Posted 2 months ago
The role
You will lead and improve how the company investigates, responds to, and learns from security incidents. This senior role involves digital forensics, incident response, and threat hunting using intelligence to understand adversary activity.
What you will do
- Act as technical lead on security incidents from triage to post-incident review
- Act as the escalation point for the SOC on confirmed and complex incidents
- Perform digital forensic analysis across endpoints, servers, cloud, SaaS, and identity environments
- Use findings to understand adversary tradecraft and guide response decisions
- Work with IT, Engineering, Identity, Service Management, legal, privacy, and communications teams
- Assess emerging threats, zero-days and actively exploited vulnerabilities
- Lead proactive, hypothesis-led threat hunts
- Produce internal threat reporting for security teams and leadership
- Contribute to threat intelligence capability and tooling
- Expand incident response playbooks, forensic procedures, and evidence handling standards
Required qualifications
- Extensive hands-on experience in digital forensics and incident response
- Practical forensic skills across endpoint, memory, network, log, and cloud evidence
- Intelligence mindset developed through investigative work
- Working knowledge of intelligence analysis fundamentals
- Experience leading hypothesis-driven threat hunting
- Hands-on experience using AI in security work
- Solid scripting ability (e.g. Python)
- Good knowledge of SIEM, SOAR, and EDR/XDR platforms
- Strong understanding of attacker behaviour and the MITRE ATT&CK framework
- Ability to explain complex technical findings to executive audiences
- Calm, structured judgement during high-pressure incidents
Nice to have
- Familiarity with the cybercrime underground and managing research personas
- Familiarity with intelligence models such as the Diamond Model and F3EAD
- Relevant certifications such as GCFA, GCIH or GCTI
- Experience designing or running tabletop exercises or crisis management
About the company
Anaplan is a team of innovators focused on optimizing business decision-making through an AI-infused scenario planning and analysis platform. Their customers include global companies such as Coca-Cola, LinkedIn, Adobe, LVMH and Bayer.