Associate Director, Cyber Defense - Staff Incident Responder

Role: Associate Director, Cyber Defense – Staff Incident Responder at Alnylam, focusing on leading complex cyber investigations, threat hunting, and enhancing detection and response capabilities across global enterprise environments. Responsibilities include managing incident response, forensic analysis, developing playbooks, automation, tooling, and post-incident reporting, while partnering with cross-functional teams to improve security posture. Requirements: 8+ years in incident response, digital forensics, threat hunting, or security operations within enterprise/cloud settings; expertise across endpoint, cloud, network, identity; strong scripting (Python, PowerShell, Bash); knowledge of attacker TTPs and industry frameworks like MITRE ATT&CK and NIST. Preferred skills include impact-driven tooling and process improvements, cross-functional leadership, and excellent communication skills. High-value aspects involve work in RNAi therapeutics company, hybrid model based in Cambridge, MA, with on-call duties supporting incident response outside standard hours.