Senior Incident Response Analyst 2 @ Sophos

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Sophos is a global leader and innovator of advanced security solutions for defeating cyberattacks. The company acquired Secureworks in February 2025, bringing together two pioneers that have redefined the cybersecurity industry with their innovative, native AI-optimized services, technologies and products. Sophos is now the largest pure-play Managed Detection and Response (MDR) provider, supporting more than 28,000 organizations. In addition to MDR and other services, Sophos’ complete portfolio includes industry-leading endpoint, network, email, and cloud security that interoperate and adapt to defend through the Sophos Central platform. Secureworks provides the innovative, market-leading Taegis XDR/MDR, identity threat detection and response (ITDR), next-gen SIEM capabilities, managed risk, and a comprehensive set of advisory services. Sophos sells all these solutions through reseller partners, Managed Service Providers (MSPs) and Managed Security Service Providers (MSSPs) worldwide, defending more than 600,000 organizations worldwide from phishing, ransomware, data theft, other every day and state-sponsored cybercrimes. The solutions are powered by historical and real-time threat intelligence from Sophos X-Ops and the newly added Counter Threat Unit (CTU). Sophos is headquartered in Oxford, U.K. More information is available at www.sophos.com.

Role Summary

Sophos is seeking an experienced and motivated Senior Incident Response & Readiness Consultant to join the Sophos Advisory Services (SAS) team. The SAS team is an elite group of incident responders that are engaged by organizations worldwide to respond to and neutralize cyber threats. Our team is also focused on helping organizations prepare for incidents through plan development, assessments and table top exercises. The Senior Consultant works with clients in the growing area of cybersecurity incident response management. This role focuses on preparing clients to effectively handle cybersecurity incidents as well as occasionally providing advisory services to clients experiencing incidents. Helping clients prepare for incidents includes developing and evaluating response capabilities and plan documentation, delivering training, and conducting exercises to test response capabilities. The successful candidate will have experience in developing, managing, and operating incident response capabilities, conducting training, exercises and workshops, and will be familiar with tactics, techniques, and procedures commonly employed by threat actors and how to mitigate them. Familiarity with the drivers and constraints that organizations are working with and against while trying to secure their infrastructure and data is a necessity.

This is a remote position, that involves up to 60% travel, to deliver on site services such as Table Top exercises and IR Plan development.

What You Will Do

Serve as subject matter expert in incident response capability development and improvement
Manage consulting workload, client requirements, and internal projects and tasking as assigned
Design and deliver incident response exercises to test client incident response plans; oversee the delivery of exercises by other consultants
Develop detailed incident response plans and playbooks based on client needs
Contribute to the continual improvement of services that we deliver to clients and the processes that the team utilizes to deliver them
Provide objective, actionable, and complete guidance that enables and improves our customers’ incident management capabilities
Conduct assessments of client readiness to respond to incidents, including designing and delivering incident response exercises to test client incident response capabilities; review the assessments of other consultants
Support complex incident response; review analysis and conclusions of other consultants
Document findings, develop recommendations and present both orally and in written reports
Promote Sophos by participating in external speaking engagements, writing whitepapers and blogposts, and ensuring identification of opportunities for additional support to be provided to clients
Mentor junior staff

What You Will Bring

Must have 7+ years of Incident Response with a focus on incident response readiness, preparedness, or IR program development
Must have 5+ years years building or managing IR capabilities across departments, including IR plans, playbooks, readiness assessments, and simulation exercises
Deep knowledge of incident response frameworks (e.g., NIST 800-61, MITRE ATT&CK, Cyber Kill Chain) and how to operationalize them in a preparedness context
Experience designing and facilitating tabletop exercises, purple teaming, or scenario-based simulations
Strong understanding of threat intelligence integration and detection strategy alignment
Proven ability to mentor analysts and elevate organizational response maturity
Skilled at documenting and improving IR procedures, runbooks, and escalation paths
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including executive briefings and post-exercise reports
Ability to manage multiple readiness initiatives and influence cross-functional teams
Experience with SOAR platforms, playbook automation, and detection rule tuning
Familiarity with cloud security and forensics (AWS, Azure, hybrid environments)
Preferred certifications such as GCFA, GCFE, GCIH, CISSP, or similar
Experience in business continuity, disaster recovery, or cyber resilience programs
Willingness to support after-hours exercises or response readiness testing if needed

In the Canada, the base salary for this role ranges from $131,000 to $219,000. In addition to base salary, we offer additional compensation including bonus eligibility and a comprehensive benefits package.  A candidate’s specific pay within this range will depend on a variety of factors, including job-related skills, training, location, experience, relevant education, certifications, and other business and organizational needs.

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What's Great About Sophos?

· Sophos operates a remote-first working model, making remote work the primary option for most employees. However, some roles may necessitate a hybrid approach. Please refer to the location details in our job postings for further information.

· Our people – we innovate and create, all of which are accompanied by a great sense of fun and team spirit

· Employee-led diversity and inclusion networks that build community and provide education and advocacy

· Annual charity and fundraising initiatives and volunteer days for employees to support local communities

· Global employee sustainability initiatives to reduce our environmental footprint

· Global fitness and trivia competitions to keep our bodies and minds sharp

· Global wellbeing days for employees to relax and recharge

· Monthly wellbeing webinars and training to support employee health and wellbeing

Our Commitment To You

We’re proud of the diverse and inclusive environment we have at Sophos, and we’re committed to ensuring equality of opportunity. We believe that diversity, combined with excellence, builds a better Sophos, so we encourage applicants who can contribute to the diversity of our team. All applicants will be treated in a fair and equal manner and in accordance with the law regardless of gender, sex, gender reassignment, marital status, race, religion or belief, color, age, military veteran status, disability, pregnancy, maternity or sexual orientation. We want to give you every opportunity to show us your best self, so if there are any adjustments we could make to the recruitment and selection process to support you, please let us know.

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