Cyber Incident Handler

Who We Are:

Kontoor Brands, Inc. (KTB) is the parent company of Wrangler®, Lee® and Rock & Republic®, with owned manufacturing facilities in Mexico. Kontoor also owns and operates over 140 retail stores across the globe. Our global company employs more than 13,000 people in 65 countries, with world headquarters in Greensboro, North Carolina, and regional headquarters in Geneva and Hong Kong.

Job Posting:

Cyber Incident Handler

Job Summary

Reporting to the Director of Cyber Defense, the Cyber Incident Handler will be a technical individual who will perform monitoring, detection and incident response within Kontoor’s Global Information Security organization. This position will triage escalated incidents from Kontoor’s Managed Detection and Response (MDR) partner as well as alerts that are not covered under Kontoor’s MDR service agreement.

The Cyber Incident Handler must be comfortable working in a fast-paced, collaborative, entrepreneurial environment. The person in this role must be comfortable working with ambiguity and demonstrate outstanding communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Triage escalations from an MDR service and escalate to more senior Incident Handlers when necessary.
• Collaborate with more senior Incident Handlers to drive improvements to event analysis operations and security automation
• Collaborate with more senior Incident Handlers to develop threat hunting capabilities and new Use Cases for implementation in the SIEM
• Review and take a proactive approach to false positive and work with the various Security teams to tune and provide feedback to improve accuracy of the alerts

Experience

• Completion of lab-based security exercises to learn the basics of security monitoring and incident response.
• Experience as an intern in a Security Operations Center or equivalent organization
• Hands-on technical security experience across multiple domains of security

Education

• Security certification/accreditation such as Security+ is desired.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, computer engineering, electrical engineering, system analysis or related field of study, or equivalent experience

Skills

• Exceptional interpersonal skills, including teamwork, facilitation, and negotiation
• Excellent written, verbal, communication, and presentation skills

Why Kontoor Brands?

At Kontoor, we offer a comprehensive benefit package to fit your lifestyle. Our benefits are crafted with the same care as our products.

When our employees are healthy, secure, and well, they bring their best selves to work. Kontoor Brands supports you with a competitive benefits program that provides choice and flexibility to meet your and your family’s needs – now and in the future. We offer resources to support your physical, emotional, social, and financial wellbeing, plus benefits like discounts on our apparel. Kontoor Brands also provides four weeks of Paid Parental Leave to eligible employees who are new parents, Flexible Fridays, and Tuition Reimbursement.

We are proud to offer a workplace culture centered on equitable opportunities and a sense of belonging for all team members. Here we have a global workforce of high-performing teams that both unlocks our individual uniqueness and harnesses our collaborative talents.