This Senior Cyber Incident Commander position drives incident response on major incidents with executive-level participants, and is also accountable for security engineering solutions, framework, roadmap, program optimization, process engineering, risk remediation, and mitigation of operational risk in a high-velocity culture by introducing technology, requirements, deliverables, gaps, and systems design. Analyzes competitive strategies, cyber technologies, metrics models, and performance indicators.
Position Compensation Range :
$125,000.00 - $214,000.00
Pay Rate Type : Salary
Compensation may vary based on the job level and your geographic work location. Relocation support is offered for eligible candidates.
We seek a highly experienced Senior Cyber Incident Commander to lead our enterprise-wide response to significant cybersecurity events. This role is critical in ensuring a disciplined, coordinated, and effective approach during high-severity incidents that could impact our operations, customers, and reputation.
In this position, you will serve as the central leader during critical incidents, making decisive decisions, ensuring clear communication across stakeholders, and guiding the organization from detection through recovery. You will work closely with executives, technical teams, and cross-functional partners to minimize risk, manage communications, and enhance overall resilience.
The ideal candidate will have a proven track record of managing complex incidents in large organizations, a strong understanding of incident response frameworks, and excellent communication skills that bridge technical details with executive decision-making. Certifications such as CISSP, CISM, or GIAC are strongly preferred.
This is a high-visibility leadership role where your expertise will have a direct impact on our organization's security and resilience. We encourage you to apply if you thrive in high-pressure environments, excel at cross-functional collaboration, and bring a calm, authoritative presence to cyber crisis management.
Specialized Knowledge & Skills Requirements
Preferred Qualifications
Additional Information
In this hybrid role you will be expected to work a minimum of 10 days per month out of the Boston, MA office (02210).
We provide benefits that support your physical, emotional, and financial wellbeing. You will have access to comprehensive medical, dental, vision and wellbeing benefits that enable you to take care of your health. We also offer a competitive 401(k) contribution, a pension plan, an annual incentive, 9 paid holidays and a paid time off program (23 days accrued annually for full-time employees). In addition, our student loan repayment program and paid-family leave are available to support our employees and their families. Interns and contingent workers are not eligible for American Family Insurance Group benefits.
We are an equal opportunity employer. It is our policy to comply with all applicable federal, state and local laws pertaining to non-discrimination, non-harassment and equal opportunity. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.
American Family Insurance is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. If a reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and / or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please email AskHR@AmFam.com to request a reasonable accommodation.
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