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You will operate with moderate autonomy, serve primarily in an Incident Responder role, and begin supporting Incident Advisors with validated technical findings and customer-facing context. This role serves as the technical backbone of most engagements and includes mentoring junior analysts to ensure consistent execution and documentation quality.\nWhat You Will Do\nPerform advanced investigative and forensic analysis across endpoints, network logs, and cloud telemetry\nExecute containment and response actions to neutralize active threats as directed by Incident Advisors or Senior Analysts\nValidate indicators of compromise (IOCs) and correlate alerts, artifacts, and telemetry to determine scope and root cause\nMaintain clear and accurate engagement documentation, including trailheads, timelines, and playbooks\nProvide guidance and mentorship to junior IR and SOC analysts to ensure adherence to CIRT investigative and documentation standards\nPrepare technical findings and summaries for inclusion in customer updates and post-incident reports\nIdentify and communicate detection or response gaps observed during investigations\nParticipate in shift handovers, debriefs, and post-incident reviews to ensure engagement continuity\nMaintain accurate time and activity tracking to support operational visibility and service improvement\nWhat You Will Bring\nEssential:\n2+ years of experience in incident response, MDR, SOC, or security operations roles\nSolid technical understanding of endpoint forensics, log analysis, and common attack techniques\nExperience investigating malware, credential theft, ransomware, or similar threats\nAbility to correlate alerts and telemetry to determine incident scope and root cause\nStrong written and verbal communication skills for documenting findings and contributing to customer updates\nExperience mentoring or guiding junior analysts\nAbility to work effectively in high-pressure, time-sensitive incident environments\nWillingness to work some weekends and holidays as part of a rotation\nDesired:\nHands-on experience with EDR, SIEM, and forensic collection tools\nFamiliarity with OSQuery, SQL, or KQL\nKnowledge of MITRE ATT&CK and incident response frameworks\nIndustry certifications such as GCIH, GCED, CompTIA Security+, or equivalent\nExperience contributing to playbooks, detection tuning, or service improvement initiatives","description_format":"text","description_chars":2699,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":2,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United Kingdom","iso":"GB","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Incident Response","Cybersecurity","Information Security","Managed Security"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-25T13:25:22Z"}],"liveness":{"score":90,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.903,"p_room":1,"age_days":2,"expected_fill_days":83,"reasons":["conf:2","velocity","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-09-28T05:45:00Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/sophos-incident-response-engineer-2","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/sophos-incident-response-engineer-2.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-09-29T04:32:49Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","usage":{"tier":"crawler","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":4312,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":688,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-09-30T00:00:00Z"}}}