Cyber Defense Incident Responder

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The oppportunity

The Director of Enterprise Incident Response & Remediation provides executive leadership for the company's enterprise-level cybersecurity incident response capability. The role sets strategic direction, establishes global standards, and exercises oversight across incident response, supplier cyber incident coordination, and enterprise remediation programs. This leader shapes how the organization anticipates, responds to, and learns from cybersecurity events and ensures the corporate environment remains resilient against evolving threats.

Key Responsibilities

• Strategic Leadership & Governance

• Define the enterprise incident response vision, priorities, and long-term strategic roadmap.

• Establish governance structures, escalation pathways, and executive level decision frameworks for enterprise cyber events.

• Provide authoritative guidance to senior leadership during cyber crises, ensuring coordinated, risk aligned outcomes.

• Oversight of Enterprise Cyber Incidents

• Oversee end-to-end handling of significant cybersecurity incidents across internal systems, platforms, and networks, ensuring alignment with global processes and regulatory expectations.

• Direct enterprise-wide coordination across security, IT, legal, communications, risk, and operations during major cyber events.

• Provide leadership and direction to Americas-based Incident Coordinators to ensure consistent global practices.

• Supplier & Third-Party Cyber Incident Oversight

• Provide executive oversight for cyber events involving vendors, partners, and supply chain entities.

• Shape expectations for supplier incident reporting, cross organizational coordination, and risk-based response actions.

• Cyber Hygiene & Remediation Leadership

• Set enterprise approaches for remediation of hygiene and secure configuration issues, and the effective closure of systemic cyber risks.

• Champion strategic remediation initiatives across IT and operations, ensuring sustainable security improvements.

• Ensure lessons learned translate into long-term resilience and measurable risk reduction.

• Risk, Audit, and Compliance Integration

• Oversee audit readiness for the cyber program

• Support readiness for regulatory or client-facing inquiries related to major enterprise cyber incidents, ensuring consistent, fact-based, and timely communication.

• Champion governance improvements by identifying process gaps, proposing control enhancements, and ensuring IR-driven improvements are incorporated into enterprise security standards.

• Cross-functional Collaboration

• Partner with the Director of Product Security Response to maintain alignment across enterprise and product IR domains.

• Serve as strategic co-leader for global IR direction and provide reciprocal leadership coverage.

• Provide reciprocal leadership coverage to ensure seamless global response efforts

• Maintains relationships with key stakeholders Enterprise Technology and Regional Technology leaders to align and continuously improve remediation and response planning

• Leadership Attributes

• Executive presence during crises, balancing urgency with strategic clarity.

• Ability to drive cross functional alignment in complex, time sensitive situations.

• Strong mentorship orientation for advancing global IR leadership capabilities.

What we offer you

The compensation ranges below are provided in order to comply with United States pay transparency laws. Other geographies will follow their local salary guidelines, which may not be a direct conversion of published US salary ranges. At EY, we'll develop you with future-focused skills and equip you with world-class experiences. We'll empower you in a flexible environment, and fuel you and your extraordinary talents in a diverse and inclusive culture of globally connected teams. Learn more .

• We offer a comprehensive compensation and benefits package where you'll be rewarded based on your performance and recognized for the value you bring to the business. The base salary range for this job in all geographic locations in the US is $220,000 to $435,600. The base salary range for New York City Metro Area, Washington State and California (excluding Sacramento) is $264,000 to $495,000. Individual salaries within those ranges are determined through a wide variety of factors including but not limited to education, experience, knowledge, skills and geography. In addition, our Total Rewards package includes medical and dental coverage, pension and 401(k) plans, and a wide range of paid time off options.

• Join us in our team-led and leader-enabled hybrid model. Our expectation is for most people in external, client serving roles to work together in person 40-60% of the time over the course of an engagement, project or year.

• Under our flexible vacation policy, you'll decide how much vacation time you need based on your own personal circumstances. You'll also be granted time off for designated EY Paid Holidays, Winter/Summer breaks, Personal/Family Care, and other leaves of absence when needed to support your physical, financial, and emotional well-being.

Are you ready to shape your future with confidence? Apply today.

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