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Sr Associate Cybersecurity Engineer – Incident Response
Company | Workday |
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Location | McLean, VA, USA |
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Salary | $95000 – $169200 |
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Type | Full-Time |
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Degrees | Bachelor’s |
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Experience Level | Junior, Mid Level |
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Requirements
- 1+ years of experience as a security engineer/analyst in related domains
- Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience
- Ability to drive multiple projects and priorities while managing operational responsibilities
- Demonstrated knowledge of adversary TTPs (Tactics, Techniques and Procedures)
- Deep understanding of network and application security threats, attack techniques, and mitigation options and network related protocols (e.g. TCP/IP, IPSEC, routing protocols, etc.)
- Python, Ruby and other scripting languages is essential, as is a strong understanding of Linux/OSX and Windows
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Responsibilities
- Experience responding to operational queue work as part of a follow-the-sun model
- Lead cyber security incident response and investigation efforts. This includes digital forensics and cloud security events
- Improve threat detection capability by performing gap analyses and remediation
- Identify where we need to apply additional controls, extra tooling, and automation to extend the coverage of the security monitoring and response capabilities
- Build and maintain investigation and/or response tools and processes
- Evaluate new tools and techniques to create innovative and practical security solutions
- Help drive team development by mentoring new and existing staff
Preferred Qualifications
- Other relevant certification/s and training (e.g. Offensive Security, SANS, CISSP, Specific Security Tooling, etc.)
- Experience with cloud security concepts, solutions, and automation
- Experience in incident response and incident management
- Experience with threat hunting techniques
- Experience with SIEM and SOAR security technologies and solutions
- Experience in performing digital forensics and securely acquiring data from various sources