Cyber Defense & Resilience - Incident Response - Senior Manager

The Opportunity
As a Cyber Defense & Resilience - Incident Response - Senior Manager you will lead incident response efforts, guide remediation activities, and help clients respond to cyber threats across complex environments within our Cybersecurity practice. As a Senior Manager you will use sound judgment, strategic thinking, and advanced communication skills to direct large workstreams, coach teams through ambiguity, and shape clear client messages that connect technical findings to business impact. In this role at PwC, you will contribute to threat containment, recovery planning, and resilience improvements while collaborating across cybersecurity incident management, advanced technologies, and security strategy to support client systems and data.
Responsibilities
- Leading cyber incident response engagements from initial triage through containment, recovery, and lessons learned activities
- Advising client stakeholders on incident handling priorities, escalation paths, and response decisions during active events
- Coordinating forensic analysis, threat hunting, and log review to identify scope, root cause, and attack methods
- Developing incident response plans, playbooks, and tabletop exercise scenarios that strengthen enterprise resilience
- Directing technical teams through complex investigations and remediation efforts across cloud, network, endpoint, and identity environments
- Translating findings into clear briefings, executive updates, and post incident reports for business and technology leaders
- Applying cybersecurity governance, threat intelligence, and risk management knowledge to guide remediation strategies
- Reviewing detection gaps and control weaknesses to shape recovery actions and reduce exposure to future attacks
- Coaching team members on incident management methods, technical communication, and coordinated response execution
- Supporting client readiness activities by refining response procedures, simulation materials, and resilience planning approaches
What You Must Have
- At least a Bachelor's degree
- At least 7 years of experience
What Sets You Apart
- Preference for at least one of the following fields of study: Business Administration/Management, Computer and Information Science, Information CyberSecurity, Information Technology, Management Information Systems, Computer Applications, Computer Engineering
- Demonstrating incident response leadership across complex cyber events
- Applying incident recovery planning and resilience program development
- Crafting client-facing messaging for technical crisis situations
- Directing teams through ambiguity with sound judgment
- Coaching diverse teams through response and remediation activities
- Modeling cyber standards, code of conduct, and independence requirements
The salary range for this position is: $124,000 - $280,000. Actual compensation within the range will be dependent upon the individual's skills, experience, qualifications and location, and applicable employment laws. All hired individuals are eligible for an annual discretionary bonus. PwC offers a wide range of benefits, including medical, dental, vision, 401k, holiday pay, vacation, personal and family sick leave, and more. To view our benefits at a glance, please visit the following link: https://pwc.to/benefits-at-a-glance
As PwC is an equal opportunity employer, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment at PwC without regard to race; color; religion; national origin; sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, and gender identity); age; disability; genetic information (including family medical history); veteran, marital, or citizenship status; or, any other status protected by law.
PwC does not intend to hire experienced or entry level job seekers who will need, now or in the future, PwC sponsorship through the H-1B lottery, except as set forth within the following policy: https://pwc.to/H-1B-Lottery-Policy.
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