Cyber Threat Intelligence Engineer
About this role
Cyber Threat Intelligence Engineer Remote | USA Added: February 28th 2025 Incident & Threat Response Engineer | Senior Cyber Threat Intelligence Engineer 100% remote | US based role An exciting new opportunity to join the Security Team of this amazing company as a Senior Incident Response & Threat Response Engineer where you will play a key role within the Cyber Defense team. This work includes preparing to effectively handle cyber security incidents, responding to incidents, developing response plans, automating playbooks and conducting exercises to test response plans. Primary objectives for the role will be to minimize the impact of active security incidents through innovative approaches to incident response and to minimize the probability of security incidents through proactively improving the ability to prevent, detect, disrupt, investigate, respond to, and recover from those cyber risk events. The role offers excellent career development and will give you the opportunity to contribute your expertise, embrace emerging trends and provide overall guidance on security best practices across all of the business and technology groups. The position will require the ability to multitask and work independently, as well as work collaboratively with teams, some of which will be spread across the globe. The role reports to a super inspiring leader who has an amazing track record of developing people and helping them take their careers to the next level. Sounds pretty exciting right? Headlines: ● Lead internal incident response engagements to understand, mitigate and remediate threats and risks impacting the business, specifically within the AWS cloud environment ● Perform complex incident response technical analysis and develop technical conclusions based on analysis of evidence; review analysis and conclusions of other team members ● Monitor for and investigate internal and external threats leveraging best of breed technologies What you need to bring to the role: ● Familiar with tactics, techniques, and procedures commonly employed by threat actors, and their motivations ● Strong technical communication skills (oral and written) including experience briefing executive management and desire to work with clients to solve complex security issues, including at times in crisis situations ● Experience briefing senior-level leadership, and conveying technical subject matter to audiences of varying backgrounds and skill levels ● Full-stack knowledge to understand modern attacks that involve networks, infrastructure, compute and applications The role is 100% remote and offers a highly competitive salary + discretionary annual bonus + excellent benefits For a confidential conversation please contact me directly at rfraser@crestwoodsearch.com Location Remote, USA Salary $160,000 - £180,000 Job Role Permanent Share Apply Now Contact Us © Crestwood Search 2026. All rights reserved.
What this role is, and what else it is called
Employers in the UK advertise this kind of work as Security Engineer, Fire & Security Engineer, Cybersecurity Engineer and Cyber Security Consultant too, so it is worth searching more than one wording. It is a mid-level Cybersecurity role in the UK, advertised as fully remote, so it is open to candidates working from home.
About hiring at Crestwoodsearch
Crestwoodsearch has 9 other live technology roles on its careers page, across Cybersecurity, Networks & Telecommunications and Cloud & IT Infrastructure. Of those, 100% are advertised as fully remote and 0% as hybrid. Where Crestwoodsearch states a salary, the median advertised ceiling is £180,000 across 10 roles. See all Crestwoodsearch roles, salaries and stack.
How this role compares to the market
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