Information Security Engineer 4 - Senior Incident HandlerYale University • New Haven, Connecticut, United States
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Information Security Engineer 4 - Senior Incident Handler
Yale University
- New Haven, Connecticut, United States
- New Haven, Connecticut, United States
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$112,500.00 - $168,750.00
Overview Serve as Senior Incident Handler: Act as a senior escalation point for complex or high-impact incidents, supporting the SOC Associate Director in managing incident flow, prioritizing response efforts, and ensuring consistent, effective incident handling across the SOC.
Perform Advanced Incident Analysis: Conduct and review complex investigations, correlating host, network, cloud, identity, and application data to determine root cause, attack path, and impact of security events. Ensure high-quality documentation and investigative rigor.
Drive Incident Response Process Maturity: Lead the evolution of incident response playbooks, workflows, and automation to improve consistency, efficiency, and effectiveness across a wide range of threat scenarios.
Enhance Detection and Response Enablement: Partner with Security Engineering to identify response gaps, inform detection improvements, and advance automation that improves incident handling and operational effectiveness.
Provide Technical Leadership and Mentorship: Offer senior-level technical guidance and mentorship across SOC operations, strengthening investigative skills, decision-making, and overall incident response capability.
Lead Post-Incident Reviews and Knowledge Sharing: Facilitate lessons-learned activities, drive remediation tracking, and ensure insights from incidents are incorporated into detection improvements, response processes, and analyst development.
Support Threat Intelligence and Readiness Activities: Translate emerging threats into actionable incident response improvements and participate in tabletop exercises and SOC readiness assessments.
Required Skills
Well-developed analytical, critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
Well-developed interpersonal, written, communication, presentation, and organizational skills.
Proven ability to lead and manage staff.
Proven ability to manage multiple or complex projects, meeting deadlines and budget.
Expert knowledge of commonly used concepts, practices, and procedures.
Principal Responsibilities
Actively develop solutions to detect and prevent network intrusions.
Serve as lead for moderately complex risk assessments.
Manage the development and implementation of action plans.
Oversee the periodic assessment of systems.
Participate in the development of program control processes to ensure risk mitigation.
Develop and deliver information security training material.
Provide guidance to and may supervise level 1-3 analysts.
Research the latest information security trends and emerging threats.
Required Education and Experience:
Bachelor’s Degree and seven years of experience or equivalent education and experience.
Additional Details
Job Posting Date: 02/02/2026
Job Category: Professional
Bargaining Unit: NON
Compensation Grade: GS-4
Compensation Grade Profile: GS-4i
Time Type: Full time
Duration Type: Staff
Work Model: Remote
Location: 150 Munson Street, New Haven, Connecticut
Background and Health Requirements:
All candidates for employment will be subject to pre-employment background screening, which may include motor vehicle, DOT certification, drug testing and credit checks based on the position description and job requirements. Certain positions have associated health requirements based on specific job responsibilities, as required by law, regulation, or university policy.
Posting Disclaimer:
Salary offers are determined by a candidate’s qualifications, experience, skills, and education in relation to the position requirements, along with the role’s grade profile and current internal and external market conditions. The intent of this job description is to provide a representative summary of the essential functions and should not be construed as a declaration of specific duties. The University is committed to equal opportunity and does not discriminate in admissions, education, or employment on the basis of sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, race, color, national or ethnic origin, religion, age, disability, or veteran status.
Note:
Yale University is a tobacco-free campus.
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- English
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