Cybersecurity Incident Response Specialist

1 day ago


Bengaluru, Karnataka, India LinkedIn Full time

We are seeking a highly skilled Cybersecurity Incident Response Specialist to join our team at LinkedIn in Bangalore, India.

Job Summary:

The ideal candidate will have 3+ years of experience in incident response and security investigations, with expertise in triaging security alerts, log analysis, and SIEM solutions. They will be responsible for playing a key role in our security monitoring and incident response team, driving small to medium-scale incidents to closure, and enhancing our in-house incident response platforms.

About the Role:

This is an exciting opportunity to work with a talented team of cybersecurity professionals who are passionate about protecting our members' information and ensuring the security of our infrastructure and applications.

Responsibilities:

  • Triage security alerts and incident reports independently
  • Investigate incidents using available resources, forensic and threat hunting skills
  • Drive small to medium-scale incidents with multiple team members and partner teams to closure
  • Conduct host, network, and log analysis in support of incident response investigations
  • Enhance our in-house incident response platforms and build new capabilities
  • Participate in on-call activities
  • Work with partner teams including PR, HR, Legal, Compliance, Investigations, Microsoft CDOC, Engineering, EPE
  • Work in a team environment to drive large-scale incidents to closure and full remediation
  • Contribute to improving processes, procedures, and technologies used by the team
  • Provide feedback to detection engineering team about accuracy and quality of detections
  • Provide proactive and accurate data to all stakeholders for internal communication
  • Help uplift entire team by providing demonstration of new processes or training on systems
  • Support mentoring and technical development of incident response engineers

Requirements:

  • Bachelor's degree in Information Security, Cybersecurity, Computer Science, or other related technical disciplines
  • 3+ years of experience in incident response and security investigations
  • Experience with triaging security alerts
  • Experience with incident lifecycle and incident handling
  • Experience with log analysis
  • Experience with SIEM solutions
  • Experience with Windows and Unix operating systems logs
  • Experience with Web Server logs
  • Experience with EDR solutions
  • Experience with system-level analysis - Windows, Linux, and Mac
  • Experience with 1 or more of these areas: System Forensics, Network Forensics, Cloud Forensics, SOAR/Security Orchestration, Threat Intelligence

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Information Security, Cybersecurity, Computer Science, or other related technical disciplines
  • Developer experience, the ability to understand source code and develop scripts
  • Practical threat hunting experience with open-source tool chain
  • Scripting knowledge to automate repetitive, time-consuming, and error-prone activities using a general-purpose scripting language (e.g., Python)
  • Prior experience with malware analysis

Suggested Skills:

  • Cyber Security
  • Incident lifecycle and incident handling
  • SIEM and EDR Solutions

Estimated Salary: ₹12,00,000 - ₹20,00,000 per annum (dependent on experience and qualifications)



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