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Posted August 11, 2026

SOC / Incident Response Engineer

CyberData Technologies
Herndon, VA, US Full Time

Job Description

Job Description


The SOC / Incident Response Engineer supports enterprise security monitoring, incident response, and threat detection across a hybrid IT environment, including on-premises infrastructure and cloud services. This role provides advanced security analysis, threat hunting, and detection engineering to strengthen organizational cybersecurity operations and continuous monitoring capabilities.

Key Responsibilities

  • Execute incident response processes in accordance with established incident response plans, standard operating procedures (SOPs), playbooks, and analyst workflows.
  • Develop and maintain incident response SOPs, playbooks, workflows, and operational guidelines aligned with industry best practices and recognized cybersecurity frameworks.
  • Implement and integrate new incident response and threat intelligence capabilities with existing security tools and the organization's cybersecurity ecosystem.
  • Monitor cloud-based Web Application Firewall (WAF) solutions to protect web applications from vulnerabilities, bot attacks, API abuse, and application-layer Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks.
  • Recommend and implement improvements to incident response policies, procedures, and operational processes.
  • Research emerging incident response technologies, evaluate security tools, and recommend enhancements to improve incident response capabilities.

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