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Senior Security Engineer, Incident Response
TwilioRemote - Ireland, IrelandRemotefull_timeVerifiedPosted 6 Sept 2023
About the role
<h1><strong>See yourself at Twilio</strong></h1>
<p>Join the team as our next <strong>Senior Security Engineer, Incident Response</strong> on Twilio’s Security Incident Response Team (SIRT).</p>
<p><strong>Who we are & why we’re hiring</strong></p>
<p>Twilio powers real-time business communications and data solutions that help <a href="https://customers.twilio.com/">companies and developers worldwide</a> build better applications and customer experiences.</p>
<p>Although we're headquartered in San Francisco, we have presence throughout South America, Europe, Asia and Australia. We're on a journey to becoming a global company that actively opposes racism and all forms of oppression and bias. At Twilio, we support <a href="https://www.twilio.com/company/diversity">diversity, equity & inclusion</a> wherever we do business.</p>
<p><strong>About the job</strong></p>
<p>The Security Incident Response Engineer will be responsible for responding to all security events and incidents across Twilio’s global infrastructure, services and applications. The Security Incident Response Team (SIRT) supports Twilio’s mission of security and reliability by working across the organization to lead the response to security events and incidents across Twilio by effectively conducting triage, containment, remediation and driving post-incident betterments. </p>
<p><strong>Responsibilities</strong></p>
<p>In this role, you’ll:</p>
<ul>
<li>Lead and support the response to all security events and incidents across Twilio’s complex global infrastructure, services and applications.</li>
<li>Own the security incident lifecycle, respond to incidents and participate in on-call rotation and participate in RCAs for security incidents.</li>
<li>Work to improve Twilio’s security and reliability posture by driving identified betterments from security events and incidents.</li>
<li>Support large projects end-to-end that will improve Twilio’s Threat Detection and Response (TDR) capabilities and initiatives.</li>
<li>Be responsible for documentation of incidents and projects you work on and craft best practices as runbooks and standard operating procedures to share knowledge across teams</li>
<li>Rapidly acquire new technical skills and knowledge in a fast-paced, highly disruptive industry environment.</li>
<li>Understand security vulnerabilities, attacker exploit techniques, and methods for their remediation.</li>
<li>Execute on the vision and develop creative innovative approaches to accelerate threat response and remediation of security incidents. </li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Qualifications </strong></p>
<p>Not all applicants will have skills that match a job description exactly. Twilio values diverse experiences in other industries, and we encourage everyone who meets the required qualifications to apply. While having “desired” qualifications make for a strong candidate, we encourage applicants with alternative experiences to also apply. If your career is just starting or hasn't followed a traditional path, don't let that stop you from considering Twilio. We are always looking for people who will bring something new to the table!</p>
<p><strong>Required:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>5+ years of experience in Cybersecurity with a focus on incident response, digital forensics, security engineering, and/or intrusion detection.</li>
<li>Experience with log analysis and forensic tools.</li>
<li>Experience with AWS, GCP or other public cloud infrastructure platforms.</li>
<li>Experience with REST API, container and serverless security.</li>
<li>Expertise in solving complex production security issues..</li>
<li>Experience with Sumo Logic & Bigquery.</li>
<li>Experience with automation.</li>
<li>Communicate clearly and concisely, orally and in writing.</li>
<li>Desire to collaborate across teams on best practices to build, test and operate security incident response capabilities at scale.</li>
<li>Schedule: ability to work ‘non-standard’ hours, to overlap as needed with colleagues and stakeholders in other global locations, and with the potential for future on-call rotation, including weekend and holiday hours.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Desired:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Experience leveraging automation to improve operational security metrics and dashboards by identifying security response gaps in systems, services and processes and propose and deliver solutions to close security monitoring gaps.</li>
<li>You are proficient in cloud technologies and are hands-on in at least one cloud platform: GCP, AWS, or Azure. You are able to both design and develop cloud-based automated security response playbooks and operate them in an automated fashion.</li>
<li>Experience with SaaS applications and security vulnerabilities. </li>
</ul>
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<p><strong>Location</strong></p>
<p>This role will be Remote and based in Ireland</p>
<p><strong>What We Offer</strong></p>
<p>There are many benefits to working at Twilio, including, in addition to competitive pay, things like ge
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