# Senior Incident Response Engineer

Role Responsibilities Performs intrusion scope and root cause analysis Assists in containment and remediation actions Serves as an escalation point for Cyber Fusion Center analysts Supports Purple Team engagements as a subject matter expert Conducts proactive Threat Hunting exercises based on relevant threat intelligence Works collaboratively with members from other Security Operations teams to drive Incident Response/Threat Hunting and overall program maturity Conducts legal holds/forensic analysis across multiple operating systems as required Serves as a Subject Matter Expert in Incident Response, guides technical and non-technical teams through the Incident Response lifecycle while driving containment, remediation, and lessons learned management. Serves as the technical lead during Incident Response engagements. Briefs Cybersecurity Leadership team throughout incidents. Role Requirements Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Cybersecurity, Computer Science preferred 7+ years of technology, information security and/or application security experience Expert in top security flaws and resolutions as listed by OWASP, SANS etc. Strong experience with automation, automated runbo

- **Id**: 1095735
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/western-union-senior-incident-response-engineer>
- **Role**: Security
- **Role family**: Security
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: explicit
- **Locations**: Austin, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 7
- **Visa sponsorship**: yes
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-21T17:54:07Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-04
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-14T14:57:52Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 53
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4859
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: 401k plan, Health insurance, Life insurance, Parental leave
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Incident Response, Money Transfer & Remittances

## Company

- **Id**: 58895
- **Name**: Western Union
- **Domain**: westernunion.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/western-union>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 100
- **Open postings**: 18
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0
- **Repost share**: 0.333
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 14
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-14T05:58:10Z

## Salary estimate

- **Min usd**: 114000
- **Max usd**: 218000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: role_seniority_country_remote_cell
- **Sample n**: 1385

## Technologies

- **OWASP** — Optional: no
- **SIEM** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Repost count**: 1
- **Days open**: 53

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 7
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-21T17:54:07Z
- Event: close; At: 2026-10-27T00:20:48Z
- Event: reopen; At: 2026-11-04T23:36:46Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 95 · green card filings: 29; Filings 12m: 95

## Liveness

- **Score**: 18
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.503
- **P room**: 0.35
- **Age days**: 53
- **Expected fill days**: 14
- **Reasons**: conf:4, velocity, win:tail
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-14T05:58:10Z

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