Elsevier
Security Incident Response Engineer II
🇺🇸 Philadelphia, PA
🕑 Full-Time
💰 TBD
💻 Cybersecurity
🗓️ July 22nd, 2025
Edtech.com's Summary
Elsevier is hiring a Security Incident Response Engineer II to protect critical assets by handling security incident scoping, analysis, containment, and remediation. The engineer will analyze incident data, coordinate responses with security teams, and maintain knowledge of emerging threats and mitigation techniques.
Highlights
- Assist in scoping and analyzing security incidents, identifying attack indicators and compromises.
- Perform security triage on endpoints, servers, and network infrastructures to contain incidents.
- Develop, document, and implement incident response runbooks and techniques.
- Communicate recommendations based on incident analysis to internal customers.
- Maintain up-to-date understanding of the threat landscape and emerging vulnerabilities.
- Require experience with cybersecurity incident response, network or systems administration, and operational security.
- Knowledge of security tools, cloud environments (major providers), and cloud security, including multi-cloud or hybrid deployment.
- Automation skills in PowerShell, Python, Java, or similar languages at beginner to intermediate level.
- Support large, complex, and geographically distributed enterprise environments.
- Comprehensive benefits include health, retirement, wellness programs, family benefits, and flexible working hours.
Security Incident Response Engineer II Full Description
Security Incident Response Engineer II
Philadelphia, PA
Full time
Are you looking for a Threat Detection role whereby you can advance your Cyber Security Skill set?
About the role: You will be entrusted as the technical member of incident response to protect our critical assets.
About the team: This global team supports the Information Security department’s goals and objectives by addressing escalations, and evaluation of technology controls providing key insight and research in new threats, exploits, and mitigation techniques
Key Responsibilities:
- Assisting in scoping security incidents.
- Identifying indicators of attack and indicators of compromise.
- Analyzing incident data from threat analytics tools.
- Communicating recommendations and guidance based on the results of security incident analysis to the customer.
- Coordinating a response to the security incident with other security and consulting teams.
- Developing, documenting, and implementing runbooks, capabilities, and techniques for Incident Response.
- Performing security triage and analysis on endpoint, server, and network infrastructure.
- Performing activities necessary for immediate containment and short-term resolution of incidents.
- Maintaining current knowledge and understanding of the threat landscape, emerging security threats, and vulnerabilities.
- Investigating the root cause of complex security incidents.
- Maintaining a high level of confidentiality.
Qualifications:
- Experience in cybersecurity incident response or related fields.
- Proven experience in analyzing, triaging, scoping, containing, and remediating security incidents.
- Possess Security Incident Response experience with recent operational security experience.
- Experience in Network Security Administration, and/or Systems Administration.
- Experience supporting large and complex geographically distributed enterprise environments.
- Knowledge of security technologies, tools, and processes.
- Have cloud experience with any of the major cloud providers, including cloud security, networking, and migration of multi-cloud or hybrid deployments.
- Possess Automation Skills (PowerShell and/or Python, Java, or a similar language, can be a beginner to intermediate level).
Elsevier employs 9,200 people worldwide, including over 2,500 technologists. We have supported the work of our research and health partners for more than 140 years. Growing from our roots in publishing, we offer knowledge and valuable analytics that help our users make breakthroughs and drive societal progress.
Work in a way that works for you
We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organization. We offer an appealing working prospect for our people. With numerous wellbeing initiatives, shared parental leave, study assistance and sabbaticals, we will help you meet your immediate responsibilities and your long-term goals.
- Working flexible hours - flexing the times when you work in the day to help you fit everything in and work when you are the most productive.
Working for you
- We know that your wellbeing and happiness are key to a long and successful career. These are some of the benefits we are delighted to offer:
- Health Benefits: Comprehensive, multi-carrier program for medical, dental and vision benefits
- Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with match and an Employee Share Purchase Plan
- Wellbeing: Wellness platform with incentives, Headspace app subscription, Employee Assistance and Time-off Programs
- Short-and-Long Term Disability, Life and Accidental Death Insurance, Critical Illness, and Hospital Indemnity
- Family Benefits, including bonding and family care leaves, adoption and surrogacy benefits
- Health Savings, Health Care, Dependent Care and Commuter Spending Accounts
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