Senior Manager, Incident Response - Cloud

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Summary

Pure Storage is seeking an individual with deep experience coordinating large-scale incident response activities.  When not operating as an incident commander, the role will focus on defending Pure’s cloud environments.  You will review detections, identify malicious activity, respond to intrusion activity, and make recommendations for security detection and response capabilities.  You live for the hunt, tracking down adversaries through a veritable forest of data.  When an incident is identified, you command the response activities, coordinating the toolset and capabilities from the SOC with the subject-matter experts running Pure’s business technologies.

About the Role

This role will have primary responsibilities of the following:

• Confidently respond to security incidents, and proactively consider how to prevent the same type of incidents from occurring in the future.
• Design and coordinate cohesive responses to security events that involve multiple teams across the organization.
• Build and configure cloud-based security utilities and tools for internal use to enable quick decision-making and scale out IR processes.
• Cyber security incident investigation and response.
• Monitor, analyze, and correlate activity, evaluate security incidents, perform research and provide in-depth incident analysis.
• Improve and automate internal capabilities for identifying, investigating, and responding to security events.
• Execute the cyber security detection development life cycle, which includes development and execution of hunt missions, detection logic, supporting processes, and procedures for triage and validation.
• Mentor other staff on event triage and incident response procedures.

Relevant Knowledge or Experience

• Experience leading major, enterprise-wide incident response engagements.
• Solid understanding of running workloads in cloud IaaS, such as AWS, Azure, and GCP
• Developing advanced detection capabilities and automating the triage and response to the alerts they generate.
• Cybersecurity and privacy principles.
• Deep knowledge of SIEM technologies; direct experience with Splunk is preferred
• Experience with cloud-based security technologies such as Guard Duty, Cloudtrail, Microsoft Defender for $PRODUCT, and netflow collection and analysis.
• Experience with non-native technologies, such as Lacework, ThreatStack, Orca, etc. etc.

Skills and Requirements

• Demonstrated ability to coordinate and respond to large-scale incidents
• Detail oriented with excellent analytical and investigative skills.
• Clear understanding of adversary motivations, such as cybercrime, hacktivism, cyber espionage.
• Good understanding of applying cyber-intelligence to IR.
• Make recommendations on required mitigation & remediation approaches.
• Ability to automate tasks using a preferred language (e.g. Python).
• Computer networking concepts and protocols, and network security methodologies.
• Excellent interpersonal, organizational, communication, and writing skills.

Experience

• 7+ years work experience in Information Technology
• 5+ years working in an incident response function, with 2yrs as a “senior” or team lead
• Experience researching, analyzing, and resolving complex problems with minimal supervision
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
• GIAC Certifications or equivalent a plus

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