Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. LinkedIn is the world's largest professional network, built to create economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce. The Senior Information Security Engineer will support security monitoring and incident response by investigating incidents, leading incident response activities, improving response platforms and processes, and mentoring team members.
Responsibilities
- Independently triage security alerts and incident reports
- Investigate incidents using available resources, forensic and threat hunting skills
- Drive small to medium scale incidents with multiple team members and partner teams to closure
- Conduct host, network, and log analysis in support of incident response investigations
- Enhance our in-house incident response platforms and build new capabilities
- Participate in oncall activities
- Work with partner teams including: PR, HR, Legal, Compliance, Investigations, Microsoft CDOC, Engineering, EPE
- Work in a team environment to drive large scale incidents to closure and full remediation
- Contribute to improving processes, procedures and technologies used by the team
- Provide feedback to detection engineering team about accuracy and quality of detections
- Provide proactive and accurate data to all stakeholders for internal communication
- Help uplift entire team by providing demonstration of new processes or training on systems
- Support mentoring and technical development of incident response engineers
Skills
- BA/BS degree in Information Security, CyberSecurity, Computer Science, or other related technical disciplines, or equivalent practical experience
- 4+ years experience in Information Security, with 3+ years experience in Incident Response as part of that experience
- Experience with triaging security alerts
- Experience with incident lifecycle and incident handling
- Experience with log analysis
- Experience with SIEM solutions
- Experience with Windows and Unix operating systems logs
- Experience with Web Server logs
- Experience with EDR solutions
- Experience with system level analysis - windows, linux, and mac
- Experience with 1 or more of these areas:
- System Forensics
- Network Forensics
- Cloud Forensics
- SOAR/Security Orchestration
- Threat Intelligence
- Information Security
- Incident Response
- Threat Hunting
- Master's degree in Information Security, CyberSecurity, Computer Science, or other related technical disciplines
- Developer experience, the ability to understand source code and develop scripts
- Practical threat hunting experience with open source tool chain
- Scripting knowledge to automate repetitive, time consuming and error prone activities using a general purpose scripting language (ex: Python)
- Prior experience with malware analysis
Benefits
- This role may be remote or hybrid.
- Generous health and wellness programs
- Time away for employees of all levels
- Annual performance bonus
- Stock
- Benefits
- Other applicable incentive compensation plans
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