Principal Cyber Incident Coordinator

Piper Companies is seeking a Principal Cyber Incident Coordinator to join a large enterprise pharma/healthcare organization in a highly visible security leadership role. This position is responsible for coordinating and overseeing responses to high-impact cybersecurity incidents, ensuring effective containment, communication, and continuous improvement of incident response practices. This is a hybrid role with occasional on-site duties in Dallas, TX or Philadelphia, PA.

Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate enterprise-wide response efforts for major cybersecurity incidents from detection through recovery.
• Serve as the primary escalation and coordination point during critical incidents, aligning technical, legal, compliance, and business stakeholders.
• Manage incident communications and provide clear, timely updates to leadership.
• Develop and maintain incident response playbooks, reporting, and post-incident reviews.
• Drive continuous improvement through lessons learned, process enhancements, and readiness exercises.
• Track and report incident metrics and trends to inform operational and executive decisions.
• Coordinate remediation activities related to vulnerabilities and high-risk security findings.
• Ensure incident response activities meet regulatory, legal, and internal compliance requirements.

Qualifications

• 8–10+ years of cybersecurity experience with a strong focus on incident response or cyber crisis management.
• Proven experience coordinating enterprise-level incident response efforts.
• Strong knowledge of incident response frameworks (e.g., NIST CSF, ISO 27035) and regulated environments (HIPAA, PCI-DSS, GDPR).
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to brief both technical teams and executive leadership.
• Experience managing multiple incidents in high-pressure situations.
• Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity, IT, Computer Science, or equivalent experience; advanced degree preferred.
• Relevant certifications preferred (CISSP, CISM, GCIH).

Compensation:

• Salary: up to $230K plus bonus
• Comprehensive Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision, 401k, Sick Leave if required by law

This job opens for applications on 1/1525. Applications for this job will be accepted for at least 30 days from the posting date.

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