Senior Incident Response Manager

Location: Washington, DC Salary: $90.00 USD Hourly - $110.00 USD Hourly Description:
Senior Incident Response Commander/Manager
Location: Washington, DC (Onsite) 3-4 days
Type: Contract 3-6months
Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate enterprise incident response activities from initial detection through containment, recovery, and remediation.
• Manage incident action plans, ensure timely completion of response activities, and track dependencies, risks, and issues across workstreams.
• Facilitate incident coordination meetings and serve as the central point of communication among technical teams, business stakeholders, and executive leadership.
• Translate technical findings into clear business impact assessments, risk updates, and executive briefings.
• Drive accountability across teams by monitoring action items, escalating blockers, and ensuring response objectives are achieved.
• Maintain accurate incident documentation, decision records, and evidence of completed remediation activities.
• Support continuous improvement initiatives by identifying lessons learned and recommending enhancements to incident response processes and procedures.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 6+ years of experience in cybersecurity, incident response, IT operations, technology crisis management, or enterprise technology delivery.
• 4+ years of experience leading incident coordination or managing complex response efforts involving multiple technical teams and business stakeholders.
• Experience working directly with customer teams and driving actions to completion through coordination, escalation management, dependency tracking, and follow-through.
• Experience maintaining incident action plans, risk and issue logs, workstream trackers, decision logs, and documentation of completed actions.
• Experience presenting to executive leadership and translating technical issues into business impacts, risks, and decision points.
• Experience creating executive presentations and using collaboration and productivity tools such as Google Workspace, Microsoft Teams, and incident management platforms.
• Knowledge of incident containment, investigation, response, recovery, remediation, and threat mitigation across enterprise networks, endpoints, identity systems, and cloud environments.
• Ability to lead incident bridge calls, coordinate multiple stakeholders, resolve conflicting information, and maintain accurate records in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to work onsite in Washington, DC and support urgent incident response activities outside standard business hours when required.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience managing high-severity cybersecurity incidents in large enterprise environments.
• Experience coordinating cross-functional teams across security, infrastructure, cloud, networking, legal, communications, and business operations.
• Strong organizational and project management skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities during crisis situations.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with experience supporting executive-level decision making.

Medical, dental, and vision insurance are available to qualified candidates who meet eligibility requirements.
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