Principal Incident Response Engineer
Top Benefits
About the role
Who you are
- Comprehensive experience in both readiness and incident response
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Ability to lead and mentor cross-functional teams
- Excellent communication skills, including executive briefings
- Proven ability to manage high-stakes engagements
- Experience with forensic tools and techniques (e.g., EDR, log analysis, malware analysis)
- Familiarity with enterprise environments including Windows, Linux, Azure, AWS, and M365
- Strong understanding of attacker Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs) and modern detection and response strategies
- Willingness to travel up to 20%, including on short notice, to support on-site customer engagements
- 12–15 years of experience in cybersecurity or related fields, with a focus on incident response and readiness
- Demonstrated ability to lead high-profile incidents and readiness initiatives
- Relevant certifications (e.g., GIAC, CISSP, CISM, or similar) are a plus but not required; proven impact and expertise are primary qualifiers
- Research shows that candidates sometimes hesitate to apply if they don't check every box in a job description. We challenge that notion. Your unique experiences and skills might be exactly what we need to enhance our team. Don't let a checklist hold you back – we encourage you to apply
What the job involves
- As a Principal Incident Response & Readiness Consultant, you will serve as a trusted advisor, leading both proactive and emergency engagements with enterprise customers
- Leveraging your comprehensive expertise in cybersecurity, you will help organizations prepare for and respond to cyber incidents, combining strategic readiness consulting with direct guidance through complex cyber incidents
- Conduct comprehensive reviews of incident response plans, identifying gaps and developing tailored strategies to strengthen organizational preparedness
- Design and deliver customized incident response playbooks to address specific threats and operational needs
- Facilitate training sessions on incident response fundamentals to build customer capabilities
- Lead workshops, tabletop exercises, drills, and functional simulations to evaluate and improve readiness
- Provide strategic guidance to customers on integrating readiness into broader security programs
- Contribute to the development of readiness methodologies and internal knowledge sharing
- Serve as a subject matter expert in digital forensics and incident response (DFIR)
- Lead large-scale, complex investigations involving host, network, and cloud artifacts to determine the nature, scope, and root cause of cyber incidents
- Collaborate and coordinate with cross-functional incident response teams
- Guide containment, remediation, and recovery efforts to secure environments post-incident
- Maintain a professional, calming, and authoritative presence during high-pressure incidents
- Brief senior leadership and technical teams on findings, risks, and recommendations
- Support the development of incident response methodologies and contribute to internal capability building
- Participate in a 24x7 emergency response rotation which includes weekends
Benefits
- Remote-first working model & hybrid options
- We encourage teams to get together in person periodically to help facilitate teamwork
- Flexible start and end times for many roles
- Leadership development program
- Access to LinkedIn Learning
- Global internal coaching program (Coach Match)
- Periodic Sophos wellness days off for all Sophos to help employees relax and recharge
- Global wellbeing program, which offers a range of wellbeing resources, including Sophos Wellbeing Webinars, Stress Management Toolkits, and Developing Resilience Courses
- Free Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for confidential advice and counseling on a wide range of work and personal issues
- Free annual subscription to the Calm app
- Paid parental leave, caregiver leave & bereavement/compassion leave available
- We host some unforgettable social experiences for our global teams including our music festival SOPH-Fest, go-karting, Sophmudder, and incredible holiday parties!
- Our annual global fitness challenge, SOPH-Fit, sees thousands of employees taking part in our virtual global race around the world
- Each quarter, we celebrate our exceptional global team by running the Sophos Values Awards, which recognizes and rewards employees who embody the Sophos values and who we are as a company
- Health care benefits available worldwide
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About Sophos
Sophos is a worldwide leader and innovator of advanced cybersecurity solutions, including Managed Detection and Response (MDR) and incident response services and a broad portfolio of endpoint, network, email, and cloud security technologies that help organizations defeat cyberattacks.
As one of the largest pure-play cybersecurity providers, Sophos defends more than 500,000 organizations and more than 100 million users globally from active adversaries, ransomware, phishing, malware, and more.
Sophos’ services and products connect through its cloud-based Sophos Central management console and are powered by Sophos X-Ops, the company’s cross-domain threat intelligence unit. Sophos X-Ops intelligence optimizes the entire Sophos Adaptive Cybersecurity Ecosystem, which includes a centralized data lake that leverages a rich set of open APIs available to customers, partners, developers, and other cybersecurity and information technology vendors.
Sophos provides cybersecurity-as-a-service to organizations needing fully-managed, turnkey security solutions. Customers can also manage their cybersecurity directly with Sophos’ security operations platform or use a hybrid approach by supplementing their in-house teams with Sophos’ services, including threat hunting and remediation.
Sophos sells through reseller partners and managed service providers (MSPs) worldwide.
Sophos is headquartered in Oxford, U.K. More information is available at www.sophos.com
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Principal Incident Response Engineer
Top Benefits
About the role
Who you are
- Comprehensive experience in both readiness and incident response
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Ability to lead and mentor cross-functional teams
- Excellent communication skills, including executive briefings
- Proven ability to manage high-stakes engagements
- Experience with forensic tools and techniques (e.g., EDR, log analysis, malware analysis)
- Familiarity with enterprise environments including Windows, Linux, Azure, AWS, and M365
- Strong understanding of attacker Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs) and modern detection and response strategies
- Willingness to travel up to 20%, including on short notice, to support on-site customer engagements
- 12–15 years of experience in cybersecurity or related fields, with a focus on incident response and readiness
- Demonstrated ability to lead high-profile incidents and readiness initiatives
- Relevant certifications (e.g., GIAC, CISSP, CISM, or similar) are a plus but not required; proven impact and expertise are primary qualifiers
- Research shows that candidates sometimes hesitate to apply if they don't check every box in a job description. We challenge that notion. Your unique experiences and skills might be exactly what we need to enhance our team. Don't let a checklist hold you back – we encourage you to apply
What the job involves
- As a Principal Incident Response & Readiness Consultant, you will serve as a trusted advisor, leading both proactive and emergency engagements with enterprise customers
- Leveraging your comprehensive expertise in cybersecurity, you will help organizations prepare for and respond to cyber incidents, combining strategic readiness consulting with direct guidance through complex cyber incidents
- Conduct comprehensive reviews of incident response plans, identifying gaps and developing tailored strategies to strengthen organizational preparedness
- Design and deliver customized incident response playbooks to address specific threats and operational needs
- Facilitate training sessions on incident response fundamentals to build customer capabilities
- Lead workshops, tabletop exercises, drills, and functional simulations to evaluate and improve readiness
- Provide strategic guidance to customers on integrating readiness into broader security programs
- Contribute to the development of readiness methodologies and internal knowledge sharing
- Serve as a subject matter expert in digital forensics and incident response (DFIR)
- Lead large-scale, complex investigations involving host, network, and cloud artifacts to determine the nature, scope, and root cause of cyber incidents
- Collaborate and coordinate with cross-functional incident response teams
- Guide containment, remediation, and recovery efforts to secure environments post-incident
- Maintain a professional, calming, and authoritative presence during high-pressure incidents
- Brief senior leadership and technical teams on findings, risks, and recommendations
- Support the development of incident response methodologies and contribute to internal capability building
- Participate in a 24x7 emergency response rotation which includes weekends
Benefits
- Remote-first working model & hybrid options
- We encourage teams to get together in person periodically to help facilitate teamwork
- Flexible start and end times for many roles
- Leadership development program
- Access to LinkedIn Learning
- Global internal coaching program (Coach Match)
- Periodic Sophos wellness days off for all Sophos to help employees relax and recharge
- Global wellbeing program, which offers a range of wellbeing resources, including Sophos Wellbeing Webinars, Stress Management Toolkits, and Developing Resilience Courses
- Free Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for confidential advice and counseling on a wide range of work and personal issues
- Free annual subscription to the Calm app
- Paid parental leave, caregiver leave & bereavement/compassion leave available
- We host some unforgettable social experiences for our global teams including our music festival SOPH-Fest, go-karting, Sophmudder, and incredible holiday parties!
- Our annual global fitness challenge, SOPH-Fit, sees thousands of employees taking part in our virtual global race around the world
- Each quarter, we celebrate our exceptional global team by running the Sophos Values Awards, which recognizes and rewards employees who embody the Sophos values and who we are as a company
- Health care benefits available worldwide
Not the right fit? Search for Incident Response Engineer jobs in Canada
About Sophos
Sophos is a worldwide leader and innovator of advanced cybersecurity solutions, including Managed Detection and Response (MDR) and incident response services and a broad portfolio of endpoint, network, email, and cloud security technologies that help organizations defeat cyberattacks.
As one of the largest pure-play cybersecurity providers, Sophos defends more than 500,000 organizations and more than 100 million users globally from active adversaries, ransomware, phishing, malware, and more.
Sophos’ services and products connect through its cloud-based Sophos Central management console and are powered by Sophos X-Ops, the company’s cross-domain threat intelligence unit. Sophos X-Ops intelligence optimizes the entire Sophos Adaptive Cybersecurity Ecosystem, which includes a centralized data lake that leverages a rich set of open APIs available to customers, partners, developers, and other cybersecurity and information technology vendors.
Sophos provides cybersecurity-as-a-service to organizations needing fully-managed, turnkey security solutions. Customers can also manage their cybersecurity directly with Sophos’ security operations platform or use a hybrid approach by supplementing their in-house teams with Sophos’ services, including threat hunting and remediation.
Sophos sells through reseller partners and managed service providers (MSPs) worldwide.
Sophos is headquartered in Oxford, U.K. More information is available at www.sophos.com