Senior Incident Response Engineer

🇺🇸 Remote - NJ 🕑 Full-Time 💰 $89K - $142K 💻 Cybersecurity 🗓️ August 14th, 2026

CISM CISSP GIAC

Edtech.com's Summary

Elsevier is hiring a Senior Incident Response Technical Specialist. The role involves leading the full life-cycle of security incident investigations, conducting cyber forensic investigations across physical and cloud platforms, and enhancing the resilience of security protection technologies and processes.

Highlights

Lead comprehensive incident response investigations and develop execution plans.
Conduct cyber forensic investigations on physical endpoints and cloud environments.
Analyze security events to detect anomalous activity and safeguard information assets.
Improve and optimize security protection, mitigation technologies, and incident response processes.
Perform vulnerability assessments, malware reverse engineering, and threat analysis.
Possess advanced knowledge of cloud-agnostic infrastructure security.
Preferred certifications include CCFE, GCFE, CISSP, CISM, SANS, GIAC, ISACA, CSRIC, ethical hacking, or security risk assessment.
Work within a global team supporting information security goals and addressing escalating threats.
Base pay range: $89,012 - $142,188 with eligibility for an annual incentive bonus.

Senior Incident Response Engineer Full Description

You will be entrusted as the senior most technical member of the incident response team for our global information security organization.

About the team
This global team supports the Information Security department's goals and objectives by addressing escalations and evaluating technology controls, providing key insight and research into new threats, exploits, and mitigation techniques.

Key Responsibilities

Help improve the resilience and readiness of security protection and mitigation technologies and processes.
Develop and execute security incident response plans; conduct cyber forensic investigations on physical endpoints and cloud platforms.
Independently lead the full life-cycle of incident response investigations of all reported security incidents.
Develop comprehensive incident reports and investigation summaries; collect intelligence to proactively detect high-confidence threats.
Analyze and validate security control requirements and tuning, defining mitigation rules and scripting.
Review existing tools, applications, and processes to strengthen and optimize current security capabilities.
Lead analysis and review of security events for anomalous activity, collaborating with peer groups to safeguard company information assets.

Requirements

Advanced knowledge of security of cloud agnostic infrastructure.
Ability to conduct forensic and incident response investigations; understanding of incident response and risk mitigation workflow and planning.
Vulnerability assessment, exploitation techniques, malware reverse engineering, and threat analysis experience.
Relevant certification preferred: CCFE, GCFE, CISSP, CISM, SANS, GIAC, ISACA, CSRIC, ethical hacking/penetration tester, or security risk assessment certification.

About Elsevier
Elsevier is a renowned global information analytics company focusing on scientific, technical, and medical (STM) research content, tools, and services, offering digital platforms like ScienceDirect, Scopus, and Mendeley.

Primary Location Base Pay Range: Home based-New Jersey $89,012 - $142,188. This job is eligible for an annual incentive bonus.

Original Job Description

You will be entrusted as the senior most technical member of the incident response team for our global information security organization.

Key Responsibilities

Help improve the resilience and readiness of security protection and mitigation technologies and processes.
Develop and execute security incident response plans; conduct cyber forensic investigations on physical endpoints and cloud platforms.
Independently lead the full life-cycle of incident response investigations of all reported security incidents.
Develop comprehensive incident reports and investigation summaries; collect intelligence to proactively detect high-confidence threats.
Analyze and validate security control requirements and tuning, defining mitigation rules and scripting.
Review existing tools, applications, and processes to strengthen and optimize current security capabilities.
Lead analysis and review of security events for anomalous activity, collaborating with peer groups to safeguard company information assets.

Requirements

Advanced knowledge of security of cloud agnostic infrastructure.
Ability to conduct forensic and incident response investigations; understanding of incident response and risk mitigation workflow and planning.
Vulnerability assessment, exploitation techniques, malware reverse engineering, and threat analysis experience.
Relevant certification preferred: CCFE, GCFE, CISSP, CISM, SANS, GIAC, ISACA, CSRIC, ethical hacking/penetration tester, or security risk assessment certification.