Cybersecurity Incident Response Lead

The posting, as Stoke Space wrote it

At Stoke, we believe a thriving space economy will enable a vibrant, sustainable, and equitable future here on Earth. That is why we’re building Nova, our fully and rapidly reusable launch vehicle. Designed for daily flight, Nova tackles the core challenges of space transportation by reducing cost, increasing availability, and improving reliability. By radically lowering launch costs and increasing flight cadence, we’re helping create a truly scalable space industry.

Our team is mission-driven, collaborative, and empowered to take ownership of their work. If you want to work alongside some of the most dedicated and talented people on Earth, we’d love to have you join us.

Description

Reusable launch systems depend on secure, resilient information systems. As a Cybersecurity Incident Response Lead, you will lead the detection, investigation, containment, and recovery of cybersecurity incidents affecting Stoke’s infrastructure, engineering environments, manufacturing systems, and sensitive aerospace data.

This is a hands-on technical leadership role with ownership of incident response readiness and execution. You will lead complex investigations, coordinate response across teams, and translate findings into practical improvements that reduce risk and strengthen our ability to respond. You will provide technical direction and mentorship while working closely with IT, security, software engineering, manufacturing, and operations.

We are a small, highly motivated team. You will balance decisive response with operational safety and continuity, keeping technical teams and leadership informed as incidents evolve. You must be ready to stay focused, move fast, self-direct, and learn on the fly.

Responsibilities

• Lead cybersecurity incidents from initial triage through containment, eradication, recovery, and closure; establish severity, scope, response priorities, and escalation paths
• Serve as the technical incident lead, coordinating responders, assigning actions, maintaining decision records, and escalating business risks and resource needs
• Investigate endpoint, identity, network, cloud, and application activity to reconstruct timelines, identify initial access and persistence, and assess affected systems and data
• Collect and preserve logs, forensic artifacts, and other evidence with documented handling, chain of custody, and appropriate access controls
• Coordinate containment and recovery with system owners, validating remediation and monitoring for recurrence; align actions affecting manufacturing, test, or launch systems with operational and safety requirements
• Maintain the incident response plan, escalation procedures, and playbooks for scenarios such as compromised accounts, ransomware, data exfiltration, and cloud compromise
• Improve detection coverage and response workflows using SIEM, endpoint detection and response, threat intelligence, and automation; identify telemetry gaps and tune alerts
• Conduct threat hunting a

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dent of the U.S. (i.e., current Green Card holder), or protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3).

Equal Opportunity

The Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including with respect to disability and veteran status. It is committed to compliance with all equal opportunity laws, including the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) and Title VII. It does not discriminate on the basis of nationality, race, citizenship, immigration status, or any other protected class when it comes to employment practices, including hiring.

Employment at the Company is contingent upon satisfactory completion of reference and background checks, and on your ability to prove your identity and authorization to work in the U.S. for the Company. Employees must comply with the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services employment verification requirements, and, therefore, they must complete an Employment Eligibility Verification Form I-9 at the start of employment and re-verify authorization to work periodically.

Separate from this I-9 process, as noted above, this position entails access to certain technology and technical data that is restricted under U.S. export control laws and regulations. Employment or continued employment may be conditioned on your legal authorization to work with or have access to export control materials as necessary to perform your job.

Candidate Rights & Accommodations

If you require a reasonable accommodation to complete the application or participate in the interview process, please contact careers@stokespace.com . Requests will be handled in accordance with applicable laws. Please do not include medical or other confidential information in your initial request.

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