Role: Threat Detection & Response Consultant

Location: Reston, Virginia, United States | Raleigh, North Carolina, United States | Richardson, Texas, United States

Position: Fulltime/permanent

Required Skill and Experience:

• Experience in Incident handling methodologies — NIST or equivalent framework awareness

• Cyber incident lifecycle understanding — end-to-end awareness from detection to closure

• Cyber Incident Management & Coordination Coordinate across SOC, Incident Response, and business teams.

• Executive communication and reporting — translating technical events into leadership language

• Experience in Regulatory and compliance reporting — experience with governance or oversight reporting obligations

• Stakeholder management — coordinating across IR teams, leadership, vendors, and legal/privacy

• Experience in Documentation discipline — playbook maintenance, runbooks, structured record keeping

• Experience in ITSM tooling — Jira or equivalent incident tracking and workflow platform

• Use Jira for ITSM-based incident tracking. Maintain accurate incident records, status updates, and escalation trails throughout the incident lifecycle.

• ITIL or ITSM process framework experience

• FHFA or financial services regulatory reporting experience

• TTX facilitation or planning experience

• Familiarity with vulnerability management concepts

• Insider threat program awareness

• Experience with third-party risk or vendor incident management

Preferred Skill and Experience:

• Case management — Times or equivalent SOAR/workflow automation platform

• Experience and Exposure to Cybersecurity knowledge

• On-Call and Extended Coverage Participate in weekend on-call rotation. During high-severity or lengthy incidents, additional time beyond standard hours may be required. Compensatory time off is provided in return.

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