INCIDENT RESPONSE SPECIALIST
5/10/2026
The role involves handling high-priority security incidents through in-depth investigation, forensics, and root cause analysis. The specialist is responsible for designing recovery strategies, developing incident response playbooks, and collaborating with teams to improve the bank's overall security posture.
Working Hours
40 hours/week
Company Size
10,001+ employees
Language
English
Visa Sponsorship
No
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Position Title: Incident Response Specialist
Role:
• Handles higher-priority and escalated security incidents and do a more in-depth investigation.
• Design and implement strategies to resolve and recover from an incident.
• Collaborate with the rest of CTMD teams to improve the overall security posture of the bank.
Responsibilities:
• Performs in-depth investigation, forensics, root cause, and post-mortem analysis.
• Act as a point of escalation for threat analysts in support of cyber security investigations
• Performs deep dive incident analysis, determine if critical data are impacted, scope, and risks of the security incident.
• Perform containment and eradication of threats and ensure that the issue is remediated as quickly as possible.
• Determines the extent of a compromise; attributes of any malware and determination of possible data infiltrated.
• Direct and communicate remediation and recovery efforts to asset custodians.
• Provide analysis on network traffic, malware, and threat patterns.
• Provide guidance and oversight on incident resolution, containment techniques, remediation and recovery efforts.
• Leverages emerging threat intelligence to identify impacted systems and the scope of the attack.
• Document incidents from initial detection through final resolution.
• Develop and establish the incident response procedures (playbooks).
• Execute and document incident response playbook testing, simulation, and drill.
• Perform malware analysis using comparative analysis and community knowledge.
• Provides support to the Threat Hunting team and SOC Tool Specialist for new analytic methods of detecting threats.
• Work with remediation (IT Infra & Ops) teams on events and incident mitigation
• Review and understand collected metrics from monitoring systems and be aware of patterns and anomalies.
• Participate in evaluating, recommending, implementing, and troubleshooting security tools.
• Provide input to constantly improve SOC security processes, policies, procedures.
• Staying up-to-date with emerging security threats and vulnerabilities including applicable regulatory security requirements.
• Work with Incident Response Lead and SOC Manager to better security operations and address identified deficiencies.
• Other ad-hoc tasks that may be assigned by the CTMD Head.
Other Details:
Rank: Junior Officer
Location: Pasay
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