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# Cybersecurity Incident Commander

- **Company:** Valiant Solutions, LLC
- **Location:** United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $170,000.0 - $189,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, User Authentication, Capability Maturity Model Integration, Communications Protocols, CompTIA Security+, Cyber Security, Information Systems, Databases, Intrusion Detection Systems, Network Security, Log Analysis, Network Service, Packet Analyzer, Network Administration, Security Information and Event Management, Data Logging, Software Security, Malware, Cyber Threat Analysis, Information Technology, Cybercrime, Data Analytics, Ddos
- **Published:** October 27, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.builtincolorado.com/job/cybersecurity-incident-commander/11886867?handler=ApplyRedirect

## About the Role

* Minimum of 10+ years of experience within the incident response, cybersecurity, and/or IT risk management arena
 * Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Mathematics, Engineering, or related degree or an additional three (3) years of relevant experience.
 * Leadership experience and high level of confidence with incident response management, i.e., technical recovery, legal or compliance notifications, incident response plan development, forensic investigation, and tabletop testing - required
 * Advisory experience in compliance or regulatory frameworks (i.e., FISMA, PCI, GDPR, NIST, ISO)
 * Experience owning the critical process steps with incident response: detection, validation, containment, remediation, and communication - for computer-based security events and incidents such as malware infections, potential compromise, Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS), etc.
 * Experience driving the strategy for Security Incident and Event Management (SIEM) and overseeing the effectiveness of the technology and process. Involves appropriate tuning, correlation of critical logs, connection to our incident response process, and reporting of relevant metrics.
 * Experience responding to critical security incidents and leading escalation teams to close with response, containment, and remediation.
 * Experience creating, maintaining, and promoting a set of security operation playbooks with Agilent's IT teams to effectively trigger and execute the security incident response process.
 * Experience managing the current state of logging and monitoring while maintaining a vision of the ideal state and driving a prioritized roadmap to reduce the gaps.
 * Experience acting as an Information Security & Risk consultant to various IT and business-driven projects and operations.
 * Solid understanding of the application, database, authentication, and network security principles; able to demonstrate how network services and protocols interact to provide communications, evidence recovery techniques, log data analytics, Incident categories, IR event handling methodologies, intrusion detection systems, network protocol, and packet analysis
 * Understanding of system and application security, systems and network administration, and operating system hardening techniques
 * General cyber-attack stages, profiling techniques, and techniques for detecting host and network-based intrusions
 * Evidence recovery techniques, Preservation of evidence integrity, and collection of forensically sound collection images, logs, and other critical components to discern possible mitigation/remediation of systems
 * Ability to perform or direct malware analysis, Threat Hunting, and incident response
 * Understanding of Computer Network Defense (CND) policies, procedures, and regulations
 * Ability to convey complex technical security concepts to technical and non-technical audiences during crises, i.e., executive or board-level presentations
 * Ability to work with senior business leaders to understand business objectives/functions, identify risk factors, and communicate effective mitigation strategies
 * Excellent organizational, verbal, presentation/facilitation, and written communication skills
 * All candidates must have US work authorization and the ability to pass a federal background check and credit check.

Preferred, not required:

 * CISSP, CISM, or equivalent cybersecurity certifications
 * PMP
 * At least 8 years of directly related experience in Information Security Threat Management.
 * Process management experience with incident response and SIEM.
 * Experience with and confidence to develop and socialize security operations playbooks across infrastructure and applications teams in IT.
 * Prior experience with Law Enforcement, Forensic / Incident Response Firms, Cyber Insurance providers, Breach Coaches and/or Law Firms

## Description

Valiant Solutions is seeking a Cybersecurity Incident Commander to join our rapidly growing and innovative team!

The Cybersecurity Incident Commander will direct and manage multiple work streams and resources during/after Incident Response & Recovery engagements. You will be tasked with incident response coordination and project management in a matrixed triage environment, forensic imaging and analysis, breach containment, and infrastructure recovery planning and execution, after-action reporting, and analysis. This role will often interface with multiple groups, including external agency IR functions, third-party contracting companies, external law firms, etc.), internal direct contract and third-party resources, and customer resources (C-Suite, Legal, Compliance, Risk, Security, Cybersecurity, Auditing, Operations, IT, Call Centers, Communications, Public Relations). Additionally, the Incident Commander will collaborate with Security Operations and Security Engineering practice leaders to evaluate the direction of our offerings, establish ongoing relationships with third parties and clients, and
work closely with stakeholders to understand business objectives and advise on security risks/mitigation strategies during incident response work., * Participate in a rotating on-call; rotation is based on the number of team members.

 * Serve as the incident response event point person and liaison to enterprise teams, responding to crisis or urgent situations aimed at mitigating, preparing for, responding to, and recovery systems. Will also coordinate resources, activities, and timelines during security incidents to ensure a unified structured response to incidents (I.e., data breaches, ransomware events, etc.)
 * Work under the direction of the Security Operations lead aimed at mitigating, preparing for, responding to, and recovering systems from cyber threats/incidents.
 * Conduct initial incident triage, assess the effectiveness of various tactics/strategies, and make rapid decisions on appropriate courses of action.
 * Supports/develops reports during and after incidents, which include all actions taken to properly mitigate, recover, and return operations to normal operations
 * Review and recommend technical, process, and physical controls to counteract damage from breach events.
 * Lead forensic investigators and application security analysts in reactive and proactive Threat-hunting engagements, performing endpoint, network, and log analysis.
 * Mentor and grow junior resources to develop additional forensic, response, and threat-hunting capabilities