Senior Incident Response Analyst

🇺🇸 Hybrid - Piscataway, New Jersey 🕑 Full-Time 💰 $108K - $165K 💻 Cybersecurity 🗓️ September 3rd, 2026

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Edtech.com's Summary

Rutgers University is hiring a Senior Incident Response Analyst. The analyst runs daily incident detection and response operations for Rutgers' Office of Information Technology, hunting for threats and escalating complex security incidents across the university's networks, workstations, and servers. This role also advises business units throughout the university and participates in every phase of Rutgers' Integrated Incident Response Program.

Highlights

Monitor information security incidents across Rutgers' computing environment.
Serve as an escalation point for Incident Response Analysts.
Provide expert-level analytic, investigative, and forensic support on complex security incidents.
Advise business units across the university on security matters.
Participate in all phases of incident response: prepare, detect, analyze, contain, eradicate, recover, and report.
Use SIEM, EDR, NGFW, DLP, and IPS/IDS tools to detect and mitigate cyber threats.
Apply frameworks like MITRE ATT&CK and NIST Incident Response.
Bachelor's degree and 5+ years of information security experience, including vulnerability scanning, penetration testing, or security operations.
Base salary range $108,147 - $165,471.