[Hiring] Senior Incident Response Engineer @Elsevier

Role Description

Are you looking for a unique Cyber Security role whereby you will provide key insight and research into new threats, exploits, and mitigation techniques? Do you consider yourself an innovator in threat detection?

About the role: 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 evaluation of technology controls, providing key insight and research in new threats, exploits, and mitigation techniques.

Key Responsibilities:

• Helping improve the resilience and readiness of security protection and mitigation technologies and processes which ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the organization’s assets, information, data, and IT services in an efficient manner.
• Developing and executing security incident response plans, conducting cyber forensic investigations on physical endpoints and cloud platforms, independently leading the full life-cycle of incident response investigations of all reported security incidents.
• Developing comprehensive incident reports and investigation summaries.
• Developing and collecting intelligence to proactively detect and identify high-confidence threats to the brand, service infrastructure, and enterprise users and systems.
• Analyzing/validating security control requirements and tuning, defining the mitigation rules, scripting and performing changes or mitigating attacks, and assisting with troubleshooting support related to any issues which may arise from security detection or protection technologies.
• Assisting with reviewing existing tools, applications, and processes to help strengthen and optimize current security capabilities, as well as identifying any gaps or technical solutions to further enhance the team’s effectiveness.
• Leading analysis and review security events for anomalous activity, collaborating with respective peer groups to take appropriate action to safeguard company information assets against current and foreseen threats.

Qualifications

• Possess advanced knowledge of security of cloud agnostic infrastructure.
• Have the ability to conduct forensic and incident response investigations.
• Understanding of incident response and risk mitigation workflow and planning.
• Able to participate in the analysis of security events for anomalous activity.
• Identification of emerging security threats.
• Able to develop and implement security improvement and remediation programs.
• Possess vulnerability assessment, exploitation techniques, malware reverse engineering, threat analysis, and security threat and incident reporting.
• Able to participate in the investigation and navigation in Cloud and Web-based environments.
• Possess any of the following Licensing/certification: CCFE, GCFE, CISSP, CISM, SANS, GIAC, ISACA, CSRIC (or related), ethical hacking/penetration tester certification, and/or security risk assessment certification.

Benefits

• Primary Location Base Pay Range: Home based-New Jersey $89,012 - $142,188.
• U.S. National Base Pay Range: $78,800 - $131,300. Geographic differentials may apply in some locations to better reflect local market rates.
• This job is eligible for an annual incentive bonus.
• Country specific benefits are offered to support well-being and happiness.

Company Description

Elsevier is a renowned global information analytics company that primarily focuses on providing scientific, technical, and medical (STM) research content, tools, and services. It is one of the largest publishers of academic journals and scholarly literature in the world.

• Elsevier operates in various domains, including science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and more.
• They publish a vast number of peer-reviewed journals covering a wide range of disciplines.
• These journals act as platforms for researchers and academics to share their findings and contribute to the advancement of knowledge in their respective fields.
• Elsevier offers a suite of digital solutions and services to support researchers, scientists, and professionals in their work.
• They provide online platforms like ScienceDirect, Scopus, and Mendeley, which offer access to a vast repository of scholarly articles, research papers, and other scientific content.