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Sr Security Engineer, Incident Response

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  • You will respond to incidents as part of a distributed 24x7 operations and on-call schedule.
  • You will triage and respond to security events and alerts, ensuring quick and effective containment.
  • You will contribute to security investigations, conducting analysis and forensics across a range of data sources to determine the timeline and impact of security events.
  • You will build automations, including leveraging AI and agentic platforms, to deliver autonomous capabilities, expedite your work and scale the impact of the team.
  • You will communicate technical decisions through design docs and tech talks, and mentor junior security responders via security guidance, design reviews and code reviews.
  • Bachelor's Degree AND 4+ years experience in Incident Response work OR Master's Degree AND 2+ years experience.
  • Strong cloud security background in at least 1 of AWS, GCP or Azure, and working knowledge of the others.
  • Knowledge of AI/LLM and agentic capabilities, including effective prompting and use of MCP, agents and agent skills. Prefer experience with building and operating agentic systems in a security setting.
  • Broad security subject matter expertise.
  • Expertise in few core IR skills (DFIR , Reverse Engineering, Traditional Network Security, Storage and access security, Sandboxing, Compute security, etc.).
  • Experience with Enterprise Security and SaaS applications.
  • Working knowledge of a SIEM and SOAR.
  • Experience building Incident Response Tooling and scripting language skills.
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