Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Kforce is a solutions firm specializing in technology, finance and accounting, and professional staffing services. The company is seeking an experienced IT Security Engineer IV to join its Security Operations Center and lead hands-on incident detection, investigation, containment, and response. The role also involves forensic analysis, playbook development, vulnerability assessment, compliance collaboration, and mentoring incident responders.
Responsibilities
- Respond to and lead critical, escalated security incidents: coordinating communications, executing the Incident Response Plan, and delivering clear, timely status updates to stakeholders and senior leadership
- Perform comprehensive host, network, and cloud forensic analysis to determine root cause, scope, and impact, ensuring containment is validated against the client's control-testing standard before an incident is closed
- Analyze and correlate signals across SIEM, EDR, and other platform logs to triage and validate threats
- Develop, maintain, and improve incident response playbooks and runbooks in partnership with the SOC's Analysis Champ and other capability owners
- Operate within existing automated workflows in ServiceNow SIR, following and refining established processes
- Flag detection gaps and false-positive patterns identified during live incidents to Detection Engineering for tuning and new detection development
- Use outputs from Mate AI SOC platform to inform triage and investigation decisions
- Collaborate with Compliance, Legal, and Risk to ensure response workflows meet business and regulatory requirements
- Assess vulnerabilities, propose remediation, and stay current on emerging threats and countermeasures
- Provide training and mentorship to other incident responders on best practices
- Contribute to post-incident reviews and help build metrics that drive continuous program improvement
Skills
- To be considered for this position, candidates must have experience in a similar role, or they must possess significant knowledge, experience, and abilities to successfully perform the responsibilities listed
- Relevant education and/or training will be considered a plus
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance for eligible employees
- Health Savings Account (HSA) for eligible employees
- Flexible Spending Account (FSA) for eligible employees
- 401(k) for eligible employees
- Life, disability, and accidental death and dismemberment (ADD) insurance for eligible employees
- Salaried personnel receive paid time off
- Hourly employees on a Service Contract Act project are eligible for paid sick leave
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