Senior Incident Response Analyst

Check Point

Jersey City, NJJobPosted 2 days agoStill listed today

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Compensation
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Location
Jersey City, NJ
Work Authorization
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Job overview

Check Point is seeking a Senior Incident Response Analyst to manage customer incidents and analyze compromised systems. The role includes directing response efforts, assessing customer environments, developing plans and playbooks, and communicating findings through detailed reports. The analyst will also evaluate malicious code in sandbox environments, support tabletop exercises, coordinate with a team, and may travel domestically and internationally.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Incident ManagementForensic SciencesCyber SecurityIncident ResponseVulnerability AssessmentsCrisis ManagementTechnical DocumentationCybersecurity ExperienceT3 Incident ResponseSystem Compromise AnalysisSecurity ReviewsVulnerability Risk AssessmentsManual Security AnalysisAutomated Analysis ToolsEnterprise Security SolutionsIncident Crisis ManagementAttack SimulationProcedure and Plan CreationOn-Call Availability

Qualifications

10+ Years Cybersecurity Experience2-5 Years T3 Incident Response ExperienceUS Work Authorization Without Sponsorship

Full job description

Why Join Us?

At Check Point, what you do matters. Every day, we protect over 100,000 organizations worldwide from increasingly sophisticated cyber and AI-driven threats, securing their AI transformation. Our prevention-first approach safeguards hybrid networks, cloud environments, digital workspaces, and AI systems, stopping attacks before they happen. This is where innovation meets real-world impact. You’ll help customers across industries operate with confidence in a rapidly changing digital world, working alongside smart, curious people who take ownership, challenge assumptions, and solve complex problems. We’re proud to be recognized by TIME, Newsweek, and Forbes for excellence and workplace culture. What really sets Check Point apart is the opportunity to grow, contribute, and help companies navigate their AI transformation securely. If you’re excited to work at the forefront of AI-driven security on a global scale, this is the place to do it.

Key Responsibilities

  • Responsible for daily incident management of customer incidents
  • Perform incident response and forensic analysis of compromised systems, identify and provide recommendations for remediation
  • Formulate and direct incident response efforts, prioritize those response efforts, and create legible incident reports that describe the compromise vector, attacker methodologies and artifacts
  • Ability to manage complicated global incidents
  • Ability to perform large-scale compromise assessments for customer environments
  • Build incident response plans and playbooks
  • Create attack scenarios for customer tabletop training exercises
  • Creation of detailed incident reports for customers and effective communication of findings to customers
  • Build and maintain sandbox/test lab environments to evaluate malicious code
  • Work within a team environment and will be responsible for coordinating work actions

Qualifications

  • This is not an entry level SOC role.
  • 10+ years of cybersecurity experience out of which 2-5 years are experience performing T3 incident response with an emphasis on system compromise analysis.
  • Experience of performing security reviews/vulnerability risk assessments of network environments using both manual procedures and automated analysis tools.
  • Experience with enterprise security solutions, incident crisis management.
  • Experience with performing attack simulation for training security teams.
  • Experience with creating procedures and documented plans for security teams.
  • Ability to participate in on-call rotation, including at least one weekend a month.
  • Domestic and International travel may be required.
  • Must be eligible to work in the US without sponsorship from an employer now or in the future.

EOE M/F/Veterans/Disabled

How this job compares

Set against the 1,187 open Cybersecurity Analyst jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 29, 2026.

Pay
  • This postingNot listed
  • US median$102–179K/yr915 salary ranges
  • US median$31–55/hr31 hourly ranges
Openings
Olive Jobs lists 14 open Cybersecurity Analyst jobs in New Jersey and 1,187 across the US. 3% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
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Experience
This posting asks for at least 10 years of experience — more than three in four Cybersecurity Analyst postings that state a minimum ask for (median 6 years, across 999 postings).
Education
208 of the 1,187 open Cybersecurity Analyst jobs (18%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

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