Incident Response leadership at Varicent combines security playbooks, tabletop exercises, escalation coordination, and readiness improvements with technical autonomy.
This Security Engineering Manager owns Incident Response processes, procedures, and playbooks end to end. The individual contributor leads significant-event response, designs annual tabletop exercises, and drives improvements from incidents and lessons learned. The role also coordinates IT analysts, vendors, managed service providers, contractors, and business stakeholders.
Key Responsibilities: Own Incident Response processes, procedures, and playbooks
Design, facilitate, and report on annual tabletop exercises
Lead cross-functional response during significant security events
Coordinate daily activities with analysts and external providers
Share readiness improvements from exercises and real incidents
Requirements: Experience owning or significantly contributing to Incident Response
Experience developing playbooks, procedures, and tabletop exercises
Strong understanding of NIST CSF and NIST 800-61
Ability to coordinate complex, ambiguous work autonomously
Excellent written and verbal communication in English
Lead Varicent's Incident Response maturity with transparent procedures, tabletop exercises, escalation judgment, and cross-functional security coordination.