Sr. Investigator, Cyber Security

Versant•Orlando, FL

2d•$130,000 - $155,000

About The Position

The Senior Investigator role leads and supports investigations involving cyber incidents, insider risk, data loss, unauthorized disclosure, suspicious user activity, employee-related security concerns, high-risk users, and other sensitive matters requiring coordinated handling. This is an investigation led role. The investigator will triage alerts, scope activity, collect and preserve evidence, correlate technical and behavioral indicators, document findings, brief stakeholders, and recommend proportionate mitigation actions. The role requires incident response judgment, strong documentation, discretion, and working knowledge of SIEM, SOAR, EDR, DLP, identity, endpoint, and threat intelligence tools.

Requirements

Experience in incident response, security operations, cyber investigations, threat intelligence, insider-risk investigations, or sensitive security matters with a focus on APT groups.
Hands-on familiarity with SIEM, SOAR, EDR, DLP, case management, identity, endpoint, cloud, and threat intelligence platforms
Experience briefing technical and non-technical stakeholders, including Cyber Security leadership, Legal, HR, Compliance, and executive audiences
Background in operations security, information security, personnel security, physical security, intelligence, compliance, or security program management
Strong written documentation, evidence handling, judgment, discretion, collaboration, and time-management skills

Nice To Haves

bilingual communication
cleared-environment experience

Responsibilities

Lead and support investigations involving cyber incidents, insider-risk alerts, data misuse, policy violations, unauthorized disclosure, suspicious user activity, and other sensitive security matters
Triage alerts, scope activity, identify affected users, systems, data, and business processes, and determine investigation priority based on risk and impact
Prepare clear investigation summaries, findings, recommendations, and executive-ready updates for Cyber Security leadership, Legal, HR, Compliance, and business stakeholders
Apply incident response methodology to assess suspicious activity, determine root cause, validate impact, and support containment or remediation actions
Correlate endpoint, network, identity, cloud, email, and user-behavior evidence to distinguish benign activity from policy violations, compromise, or intentional misuse
Use threat intelligence and investigative tooling to enrich cases, validate indicators, improve detections, and support proactive risk reduction
Identify and assess insider-risk indicators across DLP, UEBA, identity, endpoint, cloud, collaboration, and security monitoring platforms
Investigate potential data exfiltration, unauthorized access, abnormal file movement, misuse of sensitive information, and risky behavior by employees, contractors, or privileged users
Monitor high-risk scenarios including employee departures, role changes, privileged access, high-risk travel, sensitive projects, and repeat policy violations
Maintain complete case documentation from intake through closure, including timeline, evidence sources, investigative actions, findings, risk assessment, and mitigation decisions
Preserve evidence integrity and maintain chain of custody where required for cyber, employee, legal, or compliance-sensitive matters
Ensure cases are handled confidentially, consistently, and in alignment with company policy, privacy expectations, legal guidance, and HR direction
Serve as a trusted investigation partner to Cyber Security, Legal, HR, Compliance, IT, business leadership, and other stakeholders involved in sensitive cases
Coordinate escalation, containment, access changes, monitoring, employee action, clean-device workflows, post-travel review, or other mitigation steps with the appropriate owners
Translate technical findings into clear business risk language for non-technical stakeholders while preserving investigative accuracy