Incident Response (IR) Manager

Edgewater Federal Solutions, Inc.

$120K — $145K *
US-AnywhereRemote in Bethesda, MD
Education, Government & Non-Profit
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of leadership and management experience in cybersecurity operations.
  • Bachelor's Degree in a cybersecurity-related field.
  • Expertise in Incident Response concepts and operations, including maturity levels.
  • Expertise in Forensics concepts and operations, including maturity levels.
  • Knowledge of ticket management tools, troubleshooting, and computer networking.

Responsibilities

  • Oversee a team of 20 cybersecurity specialists in Incident Response and Forensics.
  • Manage planning, oversight, and reporting for the Incident Response team.
  • Deliver and maintain contract deliverables, including incident reports and documentation.
  • Support the Client's incident response capabilities and policy development.
  • Provide Tier-1 cybersecurity support for identifying and responding to security incidents.
  • Facilitate Tier-2 and Forensics support, including counterintelligence efforts.
  • Recommend improvements for IR capabilities and work with federal leadership.

Benefits

  • Opportunities for professional development and training.
  • Work in a collaborative and supportive team environment.
  • Engagement in meaningful projects within federal cybersecurity.
  • Access to advanced technology and tools utilized by federal entities.
Full Job Description
Overview

Edgewater Federal Solutions is currently seeking aIncident Response (IR) Managerto provide IR leadership, management, and support to an Incident Response team comprised of IR Tier-1, IR Tier-2, and Forensics specialists on a Federal government contract. This role will also serve as the Right-of-Boom Deputy to the Cybersecurity Operations Task Lead.

Responsibilities

  • Provide oversight, leadership, management, work assignment, organization, and administrative duties for a combined team of around 20 cyber security specialists specializing in Incident Response and Forensics.
  • Provide robust operational management, planning, oversight, metrics, and reporting for the IR team and support audits, assessments, and capability maturity efforts in various tools including Microsoft SharePoint, Excel, PowerPoint, Power Automate, and Power BI.
  • Ensure the complete, accurate, and timely delivery and/or maintenance of all relevant contract Deliverables and ad hoc work products including briefings, artifacts such as strategy documentation, playbooks, incident tickets and reports, after action reports, shift change and daily mitigation reports, chain of custody forms, forensics reports, shift schedules, and select ad hoc reports and executive briefings as required.
  • Ensure the IR team supports the Clients incident response (IR) capabilities including incident response policy, plan, process, procedures, guidelines for communications, team structure, relationship management between incident response teams, service creation or enhancement with scope definitions, on-going training needs and documentation creation and maintenance.
  • Ensure the IR team provides Tier-1 cybersecurity detection and response operational support to identify and respond to potentially malicious, misuse and abuse of anomalous activities across the Clients operating environments, including initial detection, identification, triage, and mitigation of security related incidents impacting the confidentiality, integrity and availability of the Clients network and systems.
  • Ensure the IR team provides Tier-1 cybersecurity detection and response operational support to identify and accurately categorize cyber security incidents, integrate, and utilize other NIH enterprise security capabilities, support threat mitigation techniques and incident response, minimize ticket/incident backlog in NIH ticketing systems, and notify appropriate authorities of incidents and their severity within established timeframes and guidelines.
  • Ensure the IR team provides Tier-2 and Forensics. This also includes counterintelligence/insider threat support and research and development.
  • Ensure the contract team provides forensics services to the Client, including host and appliance based, mobile devices, network, cloud, and malware forensics.
  • Ensure the contract team provides Counterintelligence (CI) and Insider Threat (InTh) services to the Client, including internal investigations, law enforcement investigations, and active monitoring.
  • Proactively enable, coordinate, collaborate, integrate, and recommend on-going improvements for IR capabilities and provide guidance to Federal (Client) leadership.

Qualifications

  • 5+ years experience comprehensive cybersecurity operations leadership and management.
  • Bachelors Degree or higher in relevant cybersecurity-related major.
  • Demonstrated expert-level delivery experience and knowledge of IR concepts, operations, outputs, and maturity levels.
  • Demonstrated expert-level delivery experience and knowledge of Forensics concepts, operations, outputs, and maturity levels.
  • Demonstrated expert-level delivery experience and knowledge of ticket management tools and practices; troubleshooting; investigations; computer networking; and operating systems.
  • Demonstrated expert-level technical ability/aptitude, demonstrated through prior technical experience and accomplishment.
  • Excellent critical thinking, analytic skills, and experience.
  • Excellent time management skills and experience.
  • Excellent management, teamwork, and interpersonal skills against difficult due dates and timelines.
  • Excellent customer service focus to meet the needs of internal and external customers.
  • Excellent presentation development and delivery skills.
  • Excellent program management, project management, and task tracking skills.
  • Ability to work on occasional weekends andholidays.
  • Ability to pass an HHS Tier-2 security clearance backgroundinvestigation.

Desired:

  • One or more certifications in information security (such as CISSP, CISM, CompTIA Advanced Security Practitioner, CompTIA Security Analytics Expert, CCTHP, CySA+, Security+, etc.).
  • Project Management Certifications (such as CAPM, PMP, ITIL etc.).
  • Current Security clearance

Salary: $120K - $145K

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