DFIR Senior SOC Engineer

Do you ever wonder what happens inside the cloud?

DigitalOcean (NYSE: DOCN) simplifies cloud computing so builders can spend more time creating software that changes the world. With our mission-critical infrastructure and fully managed offerings, DigitalOcean enables startups and small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to rapidly deploy and scale modern applications. As a remote-first organization, our employees, like our customers, are based around the world.

We want people who are passionate about making the internet a safer place for everyone .

We are looking for an inspired and motivated technical contributor to join the DigitalOcean Security Operations Center.  In this role, you will be a key member of DigitalOcean’s Digital Forensic and Incident Response (DFIR) team, charged with improving the security posture of DigitalOcean both reactively and proactively, ensuring a secure cloud infrastructure for both customers and internal users. You will gain skills in one or more of multiple focal areas including digital forensics, incident response, platform abuse, legal/regulatory enforcement, and enterprise security. You will use your analytical skills to identify and eliminate bad actors inside the DigitalOcean platform or leverage your engineering skills to create innovative ways to detect and respond to potential threats.

With over 500,000 customers utilizing 10+ data centers and 10,000+ hypervisors every day, our Security Operations Center never loses sight of the role we play in making the internet a more secure place for everyone.

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Establishing an understanding of DigitalOcean’s entire production environment, from applications to infrastructure, keeping up-to-date with material changes and future directions.
• Handling live intrusions and incident response cases, in a customer-oriented and transparent manner, to minimize the impact of bad actors on the internet.
• Collect digital artifacts from cloud systems for analysis to reconstruct what may have transpired on a system leveraging digital forensics methodologies.
• Analyzing network traffic to identify compromised systems, negate denial of service attacks, and pinpoint resource abuse.
• Identifying trends in abusive activity, communicating with leadership to keep them apprised, and advocating for appropriate product changes to prevent future occurrences.
• Acting as a point of contact for security and related incidents: providing supporting data for critical issues, downtime events, and Post-Mortem reports.
• Helping build tools to identify or automate response to abusive activity.
• Building strong relationships with the other technical teams across our engineering and infrastructure functions to harden account, platform, and service structures to combat intrusions, compromises, and disruptive activities.

What You'll Add to DigitalOcean:

• Experience handling live incident response activities transparently, in a fast-paced team environment where accuracy of analysis determines business impact.
• Ability to differentiate between normal and unusual resource usage patterns in customer and employee network/system behaviors in order to hunt for subtle anomalous patterns.
• Both dead-disk and live digital forensics experience, especially on Linux or Unix systems using open source tools (eg, volatility, sleuthkit) in an enterprise production environment at scale.
• Data analysis skills, including familiarity with relational databases, structured query languages, logging infrastructures, and data visualization tools (eg, looker, grafana, kentik).
• Familiarity with basic static and dynamic malware analysis for triage, identification, prioritization, and remediation of new malware families and behaviors (e.g: vmray, x86_64 assembly).
• A high degree of curiosity and aptitude, with a clear passion for security and the desire to keep our employees, customers, and the internet safe.
• Clear written and verbal communication skills to include; technical writing, presenting, coaching, mentoring.
• Consistently improving security as the platform scales, driving continuous improvement through data collection and correlation, being mindful that security should be an efficiency enabler for the business - not a detractor.
• Bonus: Experience in one or more of the following:
• Vulnerability Analysis, Scoping, and Mitigation Planning
• Threat Intelligence Collection / Analysis / Dissemination
• Network Protocol Analysis
• Coding, automation, or scripting skills

Why You’ll Like Working for DigitalOcean:

• We reward our employees. (The base salary range for this position is between $102,000-$153,000 based on relevant years of experience and skills. The salary range for this role is specific to candidates located within the U.S. and will vary for candidates outside the U.S..) (The salary range for this position is based on relevant years of experience and skills.) Employees may qualify for a bonus in addition to base salary; bonus amounts are determined based on company and individual performance. We also provide equity compensation to eligible employees including grants of equity upon hire and the option to participate in our Employee Stock Purchase Program.
• We value development. You will work with some of the smartest and most interesting people in the industry. We are a high-performance organization that is always challenging our teams and employees to continuously grow. We maintain a growth mindset in everything we do and invest deeply in employee development through formalized mentorship and other internal programs. We provide all employees with reimbursement for relevant conferences, training, and education.
• We care about your well-being. In addition to cash and equity compensation, we also offer employees a competitive array of benefits. In the United States, these include health insurance, unlimited vacation, retirement benefits, a generous parental leave program, and additional resources to support employees' overall well-being. While the philosophy around our benefits is the same worldwide, specific benefits may vary in other countries due to local regulations and preferences.
• We value diversity and inclusivity. We are an equal opportunity employer and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

*This is a remote role

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