Incident Response Lead – IT, Cybersecurity Fusion Center

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Job Description
 

POSITION SUMMARY

As a Cyber Security Incident Response Lead, you will be at the forefront of our organization's defense against Cyber threats. This hands-on technical role requires a seasoned Cybersecurity professional with extensive experience in Threat detection & Incident response, a strategic mindset, and the ability to guide and mentor other response teams. Your core role will be to orchestrate the response to complex cybersecurity incidents, ensuring effective mitigation strategies, and contributing to the enhancement of our overall cyber resilience. A key responsibility is to continually assess security monitoring effectiveness and to make recommendations to improve Cyber Security Incident Response capabilities. This position reports to the Director of Cyber Fusion Center (Global Cyber Security Operations) and works closely with key stakeholders in incident response roles company wide.

Office Location: Foster City, CA

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS

• Extensive knowledge and experience in handling Cyber Security threats and Incident response activities including Detection, Triage, Investigation, Remediation and Recovery from security issues.

• Extensive experience as Security Incident commander, leading security investigations while liaising with IT Operations, legal, and business teams through security incidents

• Extensive experience with designing, implementing, and optimizing a Security Incident Response process

• Extensive experience with designing and implementing SOC and IR technologies including SIEM, EDR, UEBA, among other capabilities

• Monitor security events to detect threats and analyze situations in context to detect advanced threats.

  • Alerts analysis

  • Investigate Incidents

  • Analyze Malware

• Develop Security Operations Center detection tools, rules and intelligence to improve detection & investigation efficiency of the Center.

• Assess new technologies, tests them in a lab environment and proposes them for SOC improvement.

• Operate Security Operations Center devices to ensure high availability and security.

• Maintain and operate SOC network, systems, workstations and other technical components.

• On-call availability outside business hours.

REQUIRED SKILLS & JOB QUALIFICATIONS

• Minimum 8+ years of IT experience with progressive responsibilities, and with at least 5 years of Cyber Security experience.

• Security professional with a strong technical background in Cyber Security, Windows / Linux, Network Security, Security Operations Center (SOC), Cloud Security (AWS, Azure), MITRE ATT&CK or similar frameworks, Threat Analysis, IT Operations and Incident response

• Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to adapt information delivery based on the target audience.

• Ability to create or review procedures for protection of systems and applications.

• Knowledge of information security principles, concepts, practices, systems software, database software, and immediate access storage technology to carry out activities relating to security certification and accreditation.

• Ability to provide expert technical advice, guidance, and recommendations to management and other technical specialists on critical information technology security issues.

• Recommends and coordinates the application of fixes, patches, & recovery procedures in the event of a security breach.