Senior Staff InfoSec Incident Response Engineer

ations (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

• Year of experience 8 +

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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