InfoSec Incident Response Senior Engineer

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Job Summary
The Information Security Incident Response (IR) Senior Engineer is critical in responding to information security–related issues that impact the Company. The IR Engineer uses strong critical thinking and technical skills to navigate complexity and solve issues within an established incident management framework. Strong communications (written and oral), organizational, and technical skills are required for this role. Additionally, this role requires participation in a periodic on-call schedule.

Responsibilities

• Leads and manages responses to information security incidents in accordance with established processes and an overall incident response framework​

• Participates in a periodic on-call schedule to provide ad hoc incident response capability during weekends and holidays​

• Applies technical expertise in solving complex and dynamic problems related to information security incidents​

• Conducts post-incident reviews to enable improvement of defensive capabilities and assist in the transition from reactive to proactive security capabilities​

• Participates in the development of information security–related runbooks to promote consistent incident handling and minimization of associated risks​

• Leads threat hunting initiatives corresponding to newly discovered threats or emerging issues, using these initiatives to build technical and tool-related competency outside of incident response activities​

• Identifies opportunities to leverage automation to increase efficiency and improve ability to work at scale​

• Develops automation capabilities using available security automation, orchestration, and response (SOAR) tooling and custom scripts; implements automation while adhering to established processes and standards

Leadership Characteristics

• Demonstrates leadership through successful navigation of information security incidents through applicable response phases and final resolution​

• Maintains composure and team morale while working through potentiallycomplex, long-running, and high-stress events​

• Learns from past events and takes initiative to engage relevant stakeholders to capitalize on learnings

Qualifications

• Five years of experience in cybersecurity, software development, networkengineering, or other information technology or process automation roles (ora combination of these roles)​

• Previous experience in incident reporting and/or technical writing​

• Technical depth in multiple technology-related subjects, including computernetworking, operating systems, software development, scripting, artificialintelligence, and machine learning​

• Bachelor's degree in systems, Computer Science, Business or Information Management or equivalent experience

Skills & Attributes

• Ability to conduct problem solving, both individually and as a member of ateam of multi-discipline professionals​

• Excellent communication skills (both written and verbal), including ability to distill incident reporting to convey key risks and decision points to leaders​

• Strong process development skills and ability to responsibly deviate when processes are deemed insufficient to limit risk​

• Strong technical skills and experience, and the desire to continue learning to adapt to ever-changing technology and threat landscapes

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