Security · observed market
Detection & Incident Response jobs and hiring requirements
Application security, security operations, and risk engineering. Counts are derived from employer-published vacancies; current roles use a 30-day observation window and older still-published listings are shown separately.
What the work involves
Detection and incident-response work connects telemetry, investigative hypotheses and operational action. Detection engineers design and validate analytics; responders investigate and contain incidents. A role can span both, but an application should state which responsibilities were personally owned and which were handed to another team.
Reference for this specialty ↗Useful application evidence
- A detection tested against malicious and normal activity
- A reproducible incident timeline and evidence boundary
- Containment and recovery decisions with verified outcomes
What this role market shows
Freshness
30%
of still-published listings are in the current observation window
Most visible technology
Cloud
23 current vacancy mentions
Leading location
United States
16 current role mentions
Evidence mix
Top technologies by requirement tier
Counts are mentions in current vacancies. One vacancy may mention several technologies.
Requirement evidence
Technologies employers ask for in Detection & Incident Response
Cloud
23 current roles
Cybersecurity
23 current roles
DFIR
15 current roles
GCP
14 current roles
AI
12 current roles
Python
11 current roles
SIEM
10 current roles
Automation
8 current roles
AWS
8 current roles
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Threat Intelligence
8 current roles
LLM
6 current roles
MITRE ATT&CK
6 current roles
Current market
Latest current vacancies
Incident Response Analyst
Check Point Software Technologies · Tel Aviv-Yafo, Tel Aviv District, Israel
Detection Engineering & Automation Lead
JustMarkets Tech · Europe
Incident Response Global Manager
Check Point Software Technologies · Tel Aviv-Yafo, Tel Aviv District, Israel
Incident Response Expert
Sygnia · United States
Incident Response Manager
Sygnia · Singapore
Principal Software Engineer - SRE, Incident Response & Operational Excellence
Intuit · San Diego, California, United States; Mountain View, California, United States
Staff Security Engineer, Incident Response
Databricks · United States
Incident Response Team Lead
Sygnia · Israel
Senior Detection Engineer, Protective Services
DoorDash · Remote — United States
Senior Security Consultant, Incident Response, Mandiant
Google · Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States; New York, USA; United States
Work formats
Seniority
Evidence route
How this role market is assembled
Employer-published vacancies are classified by specialty. Current demand is kept apart from older still-published listings; employer, technology and location views come from that same cached role snapshot.
Illustrative process diagram. The charts above show the actual counts for Detection & Incident Response.
Still published by employers
Long-running source-active roles
These listings remain on their publishers’ career sites but are older than the current-market window. They remain discoverable without inflating fresh-demand totals.
DFIR Analyst
SentinelOne · Auckland Region, New Zealand; Australia
DFIR Analyst
SentinelOne · Singapore
DFIR Analyst
SentinelOne · Singapore
Systems Engineer, AWS Incident Response
Amazon · Seattle, Washington, United States
Staff Security Engineer, Security Incident Response
1Password · Remote — United States; Canada
Senior Security Engineer - Digital Forensics and Incident Response (DFIR)
Intuit · Frisco, Texas, United States
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