The Principal Cyber Incident Coordinator leads cybersecurity incident responses, ensuring effective handling and stakeholder communication, while driving process improvements.
What you will be doing
Position Summary
The Principal Cyber Incident Coordinator is responsible for leading and coordinating the organization's response to significant cybersecurity incidents. This role ensures timely, effective incident handling, clear stakeholder communication, and continuous improvement of incident response processes. The Principal Coordinator will act as a senior escalation point, partnering with technical and business stakeholders to manage crisis events, maintain compliance, and strengthen the company's security posture.
Primary Duties and Responsibilities
What your background should look like
Education and Qualifications
Preferred Certifications
Work Experience
Schedule
Full time
Position Summary
The Principal Cyber Incident Coordinator is responsible for leading and coordinating the organization's response to significant cybersecurity incidents. This role ensures timely, effective incident handling, clear stakeholder communication, and continuous improvement of incident response processes. The Principal Coordinator will act as a senior escalation point, partnering with technical and business stakeholders to manage crisis events, maintain compliance, and strengthen the company's security posture.
Primary Duties and Responsibilities
- Manage and coordinate major cyber incident response activities, including detection, containment, eradication, and recovery.
- Serve as a central point of contact for incident communications, ensuring timely updates to internal and external stakeholders.
- Develop and maintain incident response documentation, reports, and after-action reviews.
- Drive lessons learned initiatives to enhance response playbooks, processes, and detection strategies.
- Collect, analyze, and report incident response metrics to support operational improvements and executive decision-making.
- Lead and contribute to cyber crisis exercises, tabletop simulations, and readiness drills.
- Ensure all incident response activities comply with applicable laws, regulations, and internal policies.
- Coordinate urgent remediation activities for vulnerabilities and high-risk findings.
- Collaborate with SOC, incident responders, threat intelligence, legal, HR, and corporate security functions during crisis events.
What your background should look like
Education and Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, Information Technology, Computer Science, or equivalent work experience; Master's degree preferred.
- Deep understanding of incident response processes and cybersecurity frameworks (e.g., NIST CSF, ISO 27035).
- Familiarity with ITIL or other service management frameworks.
Preferred Certifications
- Certified Information Security Manager (CISM)
- Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)
- GIAC Certified Incident Handler (GCIH)
Work Experience
- 8-10+ years of progressive cybersecurity experience, with at least 5 years in incident response or crisis management.
- Demonstrated experience coordinating enterprise-wide incident response efforts.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to brief technical and executive stakeholders.
- Experience with regulatory frameworks such as GDPR, HIPAA, or PCI-DSS.
- Proven ability to manage multiple incidents simultaneously under high-pressure conditions.
Schedule
Full time
Top Skills
Cybersecurity Frameworks
Iso 27035
Itil
Nist Csf
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