Security & Cyber Incident Response Engineer

Yum! Brands
United States
Workplace: RemoteFull timeUSD 131,100 - 164,300 annuallyFunction: CybersecurityExperience: 5+ yearsEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["Communication","Written communication","Stakeholder management","Technical leadership","Mentorship"]

Lead incident response investigations across endpoints, servers, networks, cloud environments, identities, and applications. Coordinate containment, eradication, and remediation actions, maintain auditable incident timelines and evidence, and drive technical decisions for complex, high-severity cases. Partner with security and engineering stakeholders, reconstruct attack paths using threat intelligence, validate recovery and residual indicators removal, and continuously improve incident response playbooks, tooling, and automation.

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Yum! Brands
Yum! Brands
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Security & Cyber Incident Response Engineer

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Job Summary

Lead incident response investigations across endpoints, servers, networks, cloud environments, identities, and applications. Coordinate containment, eradication, and remediation actions, maintain auditable incident timelines and evidence, and drive technical decisions for complex, high-severity cases. Partner with security and engineering stakeholders, reconstruct attack paths using threat intelligence, validate recovery and residual indicators removal, and continuously improve incident response playbooks, tooling, and automation.
Location: United States
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Cybersecurity
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Lead technical investigation activities across enterprise endpoints, servers, networks, cloud environments, identities, applications, and platforms to identify affected assets, indicators of compromise, attack vectors, and root cause.
  • •Coordinate technical containment, eradication, and remediation actions including endpoint isolation, access revocation, IOC blocking, credential resets, malware removal, vulnerability remediation, and reconfiguration.
  • •Maintain a comprehensive incident timeline and document investigative findings, decisions, response actions, approvals, communications, and evidence throughout the incident lifecycle.
  • •Serve as Incident Response Lead for complex/high-severity incidents, coordinating technical workstreams, setting investigative priorities, driving decisions, managing dependencies, and escalating material risks.
  • •Validate effectiveness of containment and remediation, confirm removal of residual indicators, and coordinate secure recovery with infrastructure, application, cloud, and business teams before returning systems to normal operation.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 131,100 - 164,300 annually

Key Requirements

  • •Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information security, or related field.
  • •Industry certifications such as CompTIA Security+, CompTIA CySA+, or GIAC Certified Incident Handler (GCIH).
  • •5+ years of cybersecurity experience with hands-on incident response, security operations, or equivalent.
  • •Knowledge of incident response processes including detection, triage, incident research, remediation, and reporting.
  • •Knowledge of Linux, Mac, and Windows administration; and complex cloud environments including Azure and Amazon AWS.
Experience:5+ yearsCybersecuritySecurity operationsIncident response
Education:Bachelor's
Skills:CommunicationWritten communicationStakeholder managementTechnical leadershipMentorship
Certifications:CompTIA Security+CompTIA CySA+GIAC Certified Incident Handler (GCIH)
Languages:English
Tech Stack:LinuxMacWindowsAzureAmazon AWSServiceNow

Company Brief

Yum! Brands
Yum! Brands is a global quick-service restaurant company that develops, franchises and operates KFC, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell and Habit Burger & Grill, serving tens of thousands of restaurants across more than 150 countries with digital and franchise-led growth strategies.
Industry: Restaurants & Food Service
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: Louisville, United States
Founded: 1997
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