Strada
Incident Response Lead - Remote
US-NY-New York-Virtual · Contract
Work authorization required$61k-$800kDetected 27 days ago
Distributed SystemsCloud PlatformsSIEMDetection EngineeringIncident ResponseHRCadenceLeadershipCommunicationCollaborationMentoringCISSP
About the role
- Our story Strada is a technology-enabled, people powered company committed to delivering world-class payroll, human capital management, and financial management solutions to organizations globally.
- It's why we're so driven to connect passion with purpose.
Responsibilities
- Lead Cybersecurity Incident Response
- Act as incident lead for major cybersecurity incidents, establishing severity, objectives, workstreams, decision rights, communication cadence, and escalation paths.
- Coordinate security, infrastructure, cloud, identity, network, application, vendor, and business teams to restore affected services safely and validate operational stability and residual risk.
- Partner with Legal, Privacy, Risk, Communications, Human Resources, Business Continuity, and customer-facing teams to meet regulatory, contractual, insurance, notification, and crisis communication obligations.
- Build readiness for incidents
- Own and mature incident response by establishing processes, enhancing tooling, and defining operational standards for handling incidents at scale
- Design and facilitate tabletop exercises and simulations to test technical readiness, decision-making, communications, and recovery arrangements.
- Perform incident readiness activities, and support additional cybersecurity initiatives as needed in a dynamic global corporate environment
- Lead post-incident reviews, assign and track corrective actions, and ensure lessons learned improve controls, architecture, detections, response capability, and operational resilience.
- A strong record as a self-starter: you anticipate needs, identify gaps, set priorities, and drive work to completion with limited direction.
Requirements
- Have 5+ years of experience in incident management, with direct experience leading high-severity cybersecurity incidents in complex, global, or distributed environments.
- Demonstrate a strong sense of ownership and urgency, with the ability to operate independently and make sound decisions under pressure without waiting for direction
- Have a track record of effective cross-functional collaboration, particularly with technology, product, security, legal, communications, and executive leadership
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to communicate clearly and calmly under pressure, both in real-time coordination and in post-incident written communications
- Proven coaching, facilitation, and change-enablement skills, with the ability to raise the capability and confidence of technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Strong knowledge of incident response methodologies and frameworks, including NIST SP 800-61, the SANS incident response lifecycle, and MITRE ATT&CK.
- Our team's experience in human insights and cloud technology gives companies and employees around the world the ability to power confident decisions, for life.
- Provide concise, timely situation reports and decision recommendations to executives and stakeholders, translating technical findings into business impact and required actions.
- Have built or significantly shaped an incident response program, ideally in an environment where you had to create structure rather than inherit it
- Are comfortable working in unprecedented situations where processes are still being defined and guidance may be incomplete or conflicting, leaving things better than you found them
- Have experience with cloud infrastructure incidents and enough technical depth across the stack to engage meaningfully with technology teams during response, including comfort navigating distributed systems, monitoring tools, and logs
- Are analytically minded, with experience using data (incident metrics, queries, trend analysis) to inform decisions during response and to drive operational improvements over time
Nice to have
- Relevant certifications such as CISSP, GCIA, or equivalent are a plus.
Compensation
- Statement: Strada considers a variety of factors in determining whether to extend an offer of employment and in setting the appropriate compensation level, including, but not limited to, a candidate's experience, education, certification/credentials, market data, internal equity, and geography.
- Bonus and/or incentive eligibility are determined by role and level.
Benefits
- Competitive salary and benefits package.
- Flexible working arrangements.
- At Strada, we support your whole self-offering a range of benefits for your health, wellbeing, finances, and future.
- These include health coverage, wellbeing programs, paid leave (vacation, sick, parental), retirement plans, learning opportunities, and more.
- These may include identity, education, employment, and in some cases, criminal history verification, checks against global watchlists, credit reports, and/or drug testing.
Company info
- Anticipate Customer Needs - We stay ahead of trends so our customers can grow and succeed.
- Own the Outcome - We take responsibility for delivering excellence and ensuring things get done right.
- Challenge Ourselves to Work Smarter - We move faster than the world around us to drive change and accomplish more.
- Empower Each Other to Solve Problems - We tackle challenges head on, ask tough questions, and collaborate to find the best solutions.
- Care About Our Work - We understand that what we do impacts millions, and we have a responsibility to get it right.
- Strada is a technology-enabled, people powered company committed to delivering world-class payroll, human capital management, and financial management solutions to organizations globally.
- With a team of more than 8,000 experts and over 30 years of expertise, Strada blends leading-edge technology with human ingenuity to help businesses across the globe design and deliver at scale.
- Supporting over 1,400 customers in 33 countries, Strada partners with customers at every stage of their journey, to help drive their vision forward.
- With a comprehensive total rewards package, continuing education and training, and tremendous potential with a growing global organization, Strada is the perfect place to put your passion to work.
- To learn more about us, visit stradaglobal.com
- We are looking for a highly skilled and motivated Incident Response Lead to join our cybersecurity team.
- This individual will serve as the operational backbone of how Strada handles incidents and ensures Strada is prepared to respond effectively to cybersecurity incidents.
Equal opportunity
- Strada is an Equal Opportunity Employer and prohibits discrimination based on legally protected characteristics.
- We provide reasonable accommodation for disabilities and religious practices.
- Applicants may request reasonable accommodation by contacting their recruiter.
- Authorization to work in the Employing Country
Visa & Work Authorization
- To be considered, you must have current and future work authorization in the country where you're applying, without the need for visa sponsorship by Strada.
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