
Threat Detection and Response Manager/ 5 days ago
Quick Summary
Threat Detection & Incident Response Manager (Remote U.S. or Raritan, NJ)
At Johnson & Johnson, we leverage healthcare innovation to profoundly impact health for humanity. We are seeking a dynamic and experienced Threat Detection & Incident Response Manager to enhance our global cybersecurity posture through innovative services and technology solutions.
The ideal candidate must possess a deep understanding of cybersecurity principles and extensive experience in cyber defense technologies. The primary responsibility is to investigate and respond to business-impacting IT Security incidents, ensuring timely and accurate incident validation, containment, and recovery. This position is based in Raritan, NJ, or fully remote in the U.S.
This role serves as a top subject matter expert on digital forensics and incident response, interfacing with stakeholders inside and outside of ISRM to ensure readiness and alignment for IT Security incident response.
Responsibilities:
Digital Forensics and Incident Response
- Perform active investigation and response to IT security alerts and incidents.
- Perform root cause analysis and remediation of material security risks.
Major Incident Response
- Support major incident response activities as an individual contributor (performing digital forensics and incident response) or response commander (performing overall leadership and management).
- Engage various stakeholders inside and outside of IT/Security, and provide status updates to leadership.
- Participate in on-call rotation to receive and review incident escalations ahead of major incident response team activation.
Evaluation and Enhancement
- Evaluate and implement enhancements to tooling, documentation/runbooks, detection logic, and/or implement proactive improvements to prevent or detect future incidents.
Other Duties
- Team Development: Mentor and develop team members, fostering a culture of innovation and continuous improvement.
- Tool Evaluation and Selection: Evaluate and recommend cybersecurity tools and technologies that enhance response capabilities.
- Risk Management: Identify potential risks and vulnerabilities in systems and processes and coordinate mitigation of them.
- Threat Intelligence and Analysis: Utilize threat intelligence to inform response efforts and to bolster proactive defense measures.
Qualifications
A bachelor's degree or equivalent experience required.
Required Experience & Skills:
- 8 years’ experience in digital forensics and incident response.
- Digital forensics tools and techniques.
- Incident response, including major incident response leadership.
- Technical writing and communication.
- Cyber defense frameworks (NIST, ISO, CIS).
- SIEM tools (Splunk, Sentinel).
- Programming or scripting (PHP, Python, Javascript).
Preferred Skills:
- Business Process Design
- Crisis Management
- Critical Thinking
- Information Security Auditing
- Information Security Management System (ISMS)
- Information Technology (IT) Security Assessments
- Information Technology Strategies
- Mentorship
- Organizing
- Presentation Design
- Process Optimization
- Root Cause Analysis (RCA)
- Security Architecture Design
- Security Policies
- Technical Credibility
- Vulnerability Management
Compensation and Benefits:
The anticipated base pay range for this position is: $102,000 - $177,100.
Employees and/or eligible dependents are eligible to participate in Company sponsored employee benefit programs, including medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short- and long-term disability, business accident insurance, and group legal insurance. Employees are eligible to participate in the Company’s consolidated retirement plan (pension) and savings plan (401(k)).
Time off benefits include:
- Vacation: 120 hours per calendar year.
- Sick time: 40 hours per calendar year (56 hours per calendar year for Washington residents).
- Holiday pay, including Floating Holidays: 13 days per calendar year.
- Work, Personal and Family Time: up to 40 hours per calendar year.
- Parental Leave: 480 hours within one year of the birth/adoption/foster care of a child.
- Condolence Leave: 30 days for an immediate family member; 5 days for an extended family member.
- Caregiver Leave: 10 days.
- Volunteer Leave: 4 days.
- Military Spouse Time-Off: 80 hours.
Additional information can be found at https://www.careers.jnj.com/employee-benefits.
Learn more about Johnson & Johnson at https://www.jnj.com.

