# Incident Response Analyst

**Company:** [Cloudflare](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/cloudflare)
**Location:** Unspecified
**Role:** Support Engineering
**Experience:** 3+ years
**Skills:** Incident Response, digital forensics, mitre att&ck, nist, Windows, Linux, AWS, Azure, Python, Go, yara, network forensics, malware analysis, reverse engineering
**Posted:** 2026-07-16

> REACT Consultant performing incident response, active edge mitigation, forensics, and threat containment for Cloudflare customers across on-prem, cloud, and hybrid environments. Requires 3+ years cybersecurity experience including 2+ years in IR/forensics, strong network and OS knowledge, and customer-facing skills.

## Job Description

## Key Responsibilities

### Incident Response & Active Edge Mitigation
- Execute immediate defensive maneuvers at the Cloudflare edge to protect customer availability, including deploying custom WAF rules, implementing L3/L4 DDoS shunning, and performing real-time traffic filtering.
- Support the full IR lifecycle (investigation, containment, remediation, recovery) for clients, review technical deliverables, and coordinate with customer stakeholders.
- Build understanding of targeted attacks to create and execute customized tactical and strategic remediation plans.

### Direct Customer Containment & Threat Isolation
- For ransomware and BEC: identify and isolate infected hosts, revoke compromised sessions/identities, and stop data exfiltration.
- For insider threats and nation-state attacks: track lateral movement, identify persistent backdoors, correlate threat actor activity, and execute containment while preserving evidence.

### Forensics, Engineering & AI Analysis
- Conduct initial evidence preservation (logs, volatile memory, disk images) according to forensic standards.
- Create and enhance client-facing Crisis & Incident Response solutions based on ISO 27001, NIST, CIS standards; identify opportunities for process optimization.
- Utilize AI-powered security platforms to synthesize telemetry, automate log summarization, and accelerate threat pattern identification.
- Prepare high-fidelity incident reports, forensic findings, and client communications.

## Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Cybersecurity, or related field (or equivalent experience).
- 3+ years in cybersecurity, including 2+ years in Incident Response/Digital Forensics and 1+ years in a customer-facing role.
- In-depth understanding of Windows; general knowledge of Unix, Linux, Mac.
- Familiarity with cloud environments (AWS, Azure, O365, Google Cloud, Cloudflare) and cloud IR methodologies.
- Strong knowledge of network protocols (TCP/IP, HTTPS, FTP, SFTP, SSH, RDP, CIFS/SMB, NFS); experience with tools like Bro/Zeek or Suricata.
- Solid understanding of MITRE ATT&CK and NIST frameworks.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills for executive and technical audiences.

## Nice-to-Haves
- Proficient in Python or Golang for writing scripts.
- Proficient with Yara for writing detection rules.
- Understanding of source code, hex, binary, regex, data correlation, and analysis of network flows/system logs.
- Practical malware analysis (static, dynamic, automated); reverse engineering file formats.
- Reverse engineering experience with APT malware, including infection vectors, infrastructure enumeration, attribution, and evasion tactics.
- Familiarity with bash for static analysis and IOC investigation.

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