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About the Role
This senior individual contributor role is for an experienced incident responder who enjoys solving complex security challenges and helping organizations navigate critical cyber incidents. You will lead incident response engagements from investigation through recovery, acting as a trusted technical authority, mentoring responders, and driving improvements across security operations within a product-driven MDR organization.
Responsibilities
- Act as a leading technical authority within Security Operations, taking ownership of strategic improvement initiatives and helping shape the future direction of our incident response and security operations capabilities.
- Lead cyber incident response engagements from intake through recovery.
- Act as the technical lead during investigations, coordinating response activities and driving outcomes.
- Conduct forensic investigations to determine attack scope, root cause, and impact.
- Support customers during active cybersecurity incidents and provide clear technical guidance.
- Support MDR and Security Operations activities when not engaged in active incident response cases.
- Work with internal and external stakeholders, including management, legal counsel, law enforcement, and regulators when required.
- Mentor junior and medior responders and help raise the technical maturity of the team.
- Contribute to the continuous improvement of incident response methodologies, playbooks, and operational processes.
Requirements
- 6+ years of experience in cybersecurity with significant hands-on experience in Incident Response, Digital Forensics, Security Operations, or related disciplines.
- Proven ability to independently lead and manage cybersecurity incidents end-to-end.
- In-depth knowledge of Windows, Linux, and macOS operating systems, file systems, security architecture, and attack surfaces.
- Strong knowledge of enterprise infrastructure, networking, and network security principles.
- Experience with EDR platforms such as CrowdStrike Falcon, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, SentinelOne, or similar technologies.
- Knowledge of cloud environments and cloud security concepts across Microsoft 365, Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud.
- Strong investigative and analytical skills with experience collecting and analysing evidence during security incidents.
- Ability to communicate technical findings clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Experience mentoring or coaching other security professionals.
- Strong ownership, collaboration, and communication skills.
- Fluency in English (internal working language)
- C2 Fluency in German (required for client communication)
- Experience developing scripts, tools, or automations to support investigations and response activities.
- Experience conducting technical security research.
- Knowledge of threat actors and attacker tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs).
- Experience working in a CERT, CSIRT, MDR, or DFIR environment.
Skills
- Incident Response
- Digital Forensics
- Security Operations
- EDR platforms
- CrowdStrike Falcon
- Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
- SentinelOne
- Cloud security
- Microsoft 365
- Azure
- AWS
- Google Cloud
- Investigative and analytical skills
- Scripting
- Automation
- Technical security research
- Threat actors
- TTPs
Location
- Remote
Work Type
- Remote
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
- 6+ years
Benefits
- A meaningful mission: protect organizations across Europe from real-world cyber threats
- Work with top-tier professionals from national CERTs, intelligence agencies, and leading tech backgrounds
- A remote-friendly culture with quarterly meetups and annual company retreats (in Spain, Portugal, Italy…)
- Thursday socials to stay connected
- A generous time-off policy, including wellbeing and volunteering days
About the Company
- Eye Security is providing cybersecurity with embedded cyber insurance solutions for organizations in Europe.
- Headquartered in the Netherlands, we are already over 170 FTEs and continue to grow internationally.
- We combine cutting-edge technology with hands-on expertise to detect, respond to, and recover from cyber threats in real time.
- Our team brings together talent from intelligence, military, tech, and consulting backgrounds — all united by a shared mission: to make enterprise-grade cybersecurity accessible to every business, not just the big players.
- At Eye, you’ll work on projects with an international footprint, solving real-world challenges and helping to build a safer digital future for our clients.