Senior Security Incident Response Developer
Wealthsimple
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • California • 🇺🇸 United States
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Senior
Tech Stack
CloudCyber SecurityPython
About the role
- Help take our security incident response capabilities to the next level by building relationships with Engineering teams, new playbooks and finding opportunities for automation
- Grow others in the art of Incident Response to support the program and increase consistency in outcomes
- Play a key role in building and shaping the Security Incident Response team
- Take the role of Incident Commander to bring incidents to resolution
- Help shape the direction of investment by informing the business of trends and relevant metrics
- Partner with our Security Engineers to monitor, refine, and expand our SIEM and SOAR platforms
- Coordinate with the Fraud and Privacy teams to investigate potential fraudulent and sensitive activity
- Participate in an on-call rotation for responding to security incidents, internal questions and operational support
- Partner with the detection engineering function to develop new, high-fidelity detection rules based on incident trends and threat intelligence.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in the Cybersecurity domain
- 3+ years experience being an Incident Manager, taking ownership of investigations
- Ability to lead a team during high-stress situations, providing direction and support to team members.
- Understand how to turn noise into signals using a SIEM
- Proficiency in scripting languages like Python or Bash to automate incident response playbooks and integrate security tools.
- Knowledge of and familiarity with cloud infrastructure
- Believes that honesty, transparency, and inclusivity are important when communicating with both internal and external stakeholders
- Demonstrates good judgment under pressure both in terms of technical problem solving and collaborating cross functionally
- Eager to learn from the team and others. We value making one another successful!
Benefits
- Competitive salary with top-tier health benefits and life insurance
- Retirement savings matching plan using Wealthsimple for Business
- 20 vacation days per year and unlimited sick and mental health days
- Up to $1,500 per year towards wellness and professional development budgets respectively
- 90 days away program: Employees can work internationally in eligible countries for up to 90 days per calendar year
- A wide variety of peer and company-led Employee Resource Groups (ie. Rainbow, Women of Wealthsimple, Black @ WS)
- Allocated number of Wellness Days that can be scheduled over the course of the year!
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
Incident ResponseIncident ManagementSIEMSOARScripting (Python)Scripting (Bash)Cloud InfrastructureDetection EngineeringAutomationThreat Intelligence
Soft skills
LeadershipCommunicationTeam CollaborationProblem SolvingJudgment under PressureTransparencyInclusivityEagerness to LearnSupportive DirectionRelationship Building