Senior Information Security Engineer - Incident Response

Company Description

LinkedIn is the world’s largest professional network, built to create economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce. Our products help people make powerful connections, discover exciting opportunities, build necessary skills, and gain valuable insights every day. We’re also committed to providing transformational opportunities for our own employees by investing in their growth. We aspire to create a culture that’s built on trust, care, inclusion, and fun – where everyone can succeed.

Join us to transform the way the world works.

Job Description

At LinkedIn, our approach to flexible work is centered on trust and optimized for culture, connection, clarity, and the evolving needs of our business. The work location of this role is hybrid, meaning it will be performed both from home and from a LinkedIn office on select days, as determined by the business needs of the team.

This role will be hybrid in LinkedIn's Sunnyvale campus.

About the team

LinkedIn's members entrust us with their information every day and we take their security seriously. Our core value of putting our members first powers all the decisions we make, including how we manage and protect the data of our members and customers. We never stop working to ensure LinkedIn is secure. We follow industry standards and have developed our own best practices to stay ahead of the increasing number of threats facing all Internet services and infrastructure. LinkedIn is looking for a Senior Incident Response Engineer to be an integral part of our Information Security organization. The Incident Response team is responsible for protecting our infrastructure, applications, and, most importantly, our members. This role will be responsible for playing a key role in our security monitoring and incident response team.

The role is a Senior position, coming in with years of real world experience in responding and leading incident investigations, developing playbooks, and continually striving to improve processes and response times. Additionally as a Senior, a successful candidate will help lead the continued improvements, mentor more junior team members, while acting as a lead during large scale incidents. 

Responsibilities:

• Independently triage security alerts and incident reports. 

• 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 oncall 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

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

• BA/BS degree in Information Security, CyberSecurity, Computer Science, or other related technical disciplines, or equivalent practical experience

• 4+ years experience in Information Security, with 3+ years experience in Incident Response as part of that experience.  

• Incident response experience should include:

• 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:

• 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.