Senior Manager - Cyber Incident Response

Our Deloitte Cyber team understands the unique challenges and opportunities businesses face in cybersecurity. Join our team to deliver powerful solutions to help our clients navigate the ever-changing threat landscape. Through powerful solutions and managed services that simplify complexity, we enable our clients to operate with resilience, grow with confidence, and proactively manage to secure success.

Position Summary

As a Senior Manager in Deloitte's Cyber Defense & Resilience practice, you will lead complex, multi-workstream incident readiness, response, and recovery programs for enterprise clients. You will shape solution strategy, oversee delivery quality, and advise C-suite and board-level stakeholders through high-impact cyber incidents and broader business disruptions. You will steward Deloitte's Crisis & Incident Response and Technical Resilience offerings, driving innovation, repeatability, and fit-for-purpose architectures aligned to leading standards and technologies. You will also build high-performing teams, develop talent, and contribute to eminence and market growth.

Recruiting for this role ends on June 01, 2026

Work you'll do

As a Senior Manager on the Cyber Defense & Resilience team, you will be responsible for...

• Leading end-to-end incident response programs and large-scale engagements, including readiness assessments, tabletop exercises, investigations, containment, eradication, and recovery, ensuring quality and executive-level communications.
• Designing and operationalizing enterprise crisis and incident response capabilities aligned to NIST, ISO/IEC 27001/27035, and CIS controls, integrating technologies such as security information and event management, security orchestration, automation and response, and endpoint detection and response.
• Overseeing multi-disciplinary teams across geographies; setting delivery standards, reviewing work products, and instituting continuous improvement and metrics for effectiveness, speed, and resilience outcomes.
• Shaping Deloitte Cyber offerings for Crisis & Incident Response and Technical Resilience; creating methods, assets, and accelerators; contributing to thought leadership, training, and community of practice.
• Partnering with client executives to define strategy, prioritize investments, and manage risk; supporting account growth through solutioning, estimates, and participation in pursuits.

The team

Our Cyber Defense & Resilience offering assists clients in defending against advanced threats by transforming security operations, monitoring technology, data analytics, and threat intelligence. Helps manage and protect dynamic attack surfaces and provides rapid crisis and cyber incident response, ensuring clients can be ready for, respond to, and recover from business disruptions.

Required Qualifications

• 15+ years delivering Cyber Defense and Resilience services, including incident response leadership across readiness, response, and recovery for enterprise clients.
• 4+ years overseeing multi-workstream incident response or cyber transformation programs with responsibility for scope, budget, timeline, and quality.
• 5+ years implementing or assessing incident response capabilities aligned to National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), International Organization for Standardization (ISO/IEC 27001/27035), and Center for Internet Security (CIS) controls.
• 5+ years managing distributed teams, including performance management and coaching for practitioners.
• Bachelor's degree (BS or BA).
• Limited immigration sponsorship may be available.
• Ability to travel 50%, on average, based on the work you do and the clients and industries/sectors you serve.

Preferred:

• 5+ years leading executive communications during cyber incidents, including situation reports, board updates, and post-incident reporting.
• Experience integrating or operating security information and event management (e.g., Splunk), security orchestration, automation and response (e.g., Cortex XSOAR), and endpoint detection and response (e.g., CrowdStrike) across incident workflows.
• Experience designing and running enterprise crisis simulations and tabletop exercises for executive and technical teams.
• One or more certifications: Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Certified Information Security Manager (CISM), Global Information Assurance Certification (GIAC) incident response track (e.g., GCFR, GCIH), or Certified Business Continuity Professional (CBCP).
• Experience contributing to sales/origination or account growth, including solutioning, estimation, and statement of work development.
• Experience with sector-specific regulations impacting incident response and resilience, such as Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), or North American Electric Reliability Corporation Critical Infrastructure Protection (NERC CIP).
• Previous consulting or "Big 4" experience
• Previous experience managing project budgets, resource models, P&L management
• Experience leading business development and sales related activities such as defining scope of services, building resource estimates and related pricing, packaging proposals and supporting the delivery of the proposal to the client for network security services

The wage range for this role takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs. The disclosed range estimate has not been adjusted for the applicable geographic differential associated with the location at which the position may be filled. At Deloitte, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is $151,400 to $278,900

You may also be eligible to participate in a discretionary annual incentive program, subject to the rules governing the program, whereby an award, if any, depends on various factors, including, without limitation, individual and organizational performance.

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