Senior Tactical Response Analyst

Huntress · United States of America

  • Senior
  • Full-time
  • $125,000 – $135,000
  • Posted 2026-09-21
  • Confirmed live on 25 September 2026

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Job description

Reports to: Senior Manager, Tactical Response

Location: Remote US

Compensation Range: $125,000 to $135,000 base plus bonus and equity

What We Do:

Cybercrime is growing, and more businesses are getting hit by threats that used to target only the biggest organizations. That pushes defenders like us to operate at the highest level, and it deepens our need for good people who want to make a meaningful impact.

Founded in 2015 by former NSA cyber operators, Huntress is a remote-first team working to make enterprise-grade cybersecurity accessible to businesses of all sizes. We work closely with security teams and service providers protecting complex environments, often without the time or headcount to handle it all. That’s why we build our technology in-house and back it with a 24/7 human-led Security Operations Center (SOC). As a result, our platform is never disconnected from the experts who manage it, ensuring our customers' protection.

Huntress now secures more than 5M+ endpoints and 15M+ identities worldwide. Those numbers keep growing because more businesses rely on us to help carry the load and operate with more confidence. Every day, you can see that commitment in how we stand with our customers and how we show up for each other.

What You’ll Do:

Tactical Response owns the difficult, ambiguous part of serious security incidents: understanding what happened, how the attacker gained access, what they did, what remains at risk, and what the partner should do next.

As a Senior Tactical Response Analyst, you will take ownership of complex, active-adversary and high-friction intrusion cases. You will lead deep investigations, build defensible timelines and root-cause narratives, guide partners through remediation and recovery, and communicate clearly during high-stakes incidents.

You will also turn investigation findings into technical notes for account-facing teams, actionable feedback for Product and Detection Engineering, new detections, repeatable playbooks, and automation opportunities, as well as validate case findings to be put in use for scalable threat intelligence.

Responsibilities:

• Lead or support cases involving confirmed active adversaries, hands-on-keyboard activity, serious intrusions, or complex coordination requirements.

• Investigate across endpoint, identity, cloud, SIEM, VPN, firewall, Windows, Linux, macOS, and other available telemetry.

• Build clear, evidence-based timelines and narratives that explain what happened and what must happen next.

• Provide practical remediation, eviction, recovery, and recurrence-prevention guidance.

• Explain complex findings clearly to technical teams, executives, and other stakeholders.

• Participate in partner calls with calm, authoritative, and empathetic communication.

• Identify where an incident demonstrates the value of an existing Huntress capability or indicates a need for additional coverage.

• Facilitate warm technical handoffs and support post-incident or executive briefings.

• Provide the technical evidence and narrative; account-facing teams own the commercial relationship, pricing, and sales process.
Research emerging attacker tradecraft and test hypotheses against Huntress telemetry and partner environments.

• Develop and improve scripts, automations, dashboards, playbooks, methodology modules, and data-normalization workflows.

• Contribute validated field intelligence and case-derived material to enablement, briefings, blogs, webinars, and case studies when appropriate.

• Mentor responders and represent Tactical Response in cross-functional discussions.

What success looks like:

• Partners receive clear answers, actionable guidance, and confidence during serious incidents.

• Cases close with defensible root-cause, remediation, and recovery outcomes.

• Technical notes give account-facing teams credible context for retention, expansion, and competitive conversations.

• Investigation findings become Product feedback, detection improvements, workflow changes, playbooks, or automation.

• Your work improves the quality, consistency, and scalability of future Tactical Response engagements.

What You Bring To The Team:

• Typically 3–5+ years of experience in SOC, MDR, threat hunting, digital forensics, or incident response.

• Experience leading or participating in external-customer incident response engagements.

• Demonstrated ability to investigate complex or multi-host intrusions with limited oversight.

• Strong understanding of initial access, persistence, lateral movement, credential access, remote access, and ransomware activity.

• Ability to reconstruct attacker activity across systems, data sources, and time periods.
Experience with Microsoft 365, Azure, identity, VPN, firewall, SIEM, or cloud telemetry.

• Experience with endpoint and forensic tools such as osquery, Velociraptor, EDR platforms, Eric Zimmerman tools, RegRipper, Hayabusa, Chainsaw, or equivalents.

• Strong knowledge of common f

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