Security Operation Center - Incident Response Engineer (SVP)
Citi's Security Operations Center (SOC) Incident Response Team seeks a highly skilled and experienced incident response hands-on practitioner to support and execute critical efforts aimed at protecting Citi infrastructure, assets, clients, and stakeholders. This is a demanding role with global exposure and responsibility. You will serve both as a technical subject matter expert and as an ambassador for the incident response team. You will be assigned to Citi's SOC and will collaborate closely with a talented cadre of security specialists and incident responders to triage and contain security events. Your observations and recommendations will impact security decisions across the organization and play an important part in maturing Citi's security posture.
This position requires strong leadership, active in-depth hands-on technical expertise, and prior experience in global cyber incident response operations within a SOC. As a Senior Vice President, you will assist a group of incident response professionals who triage and investigate cybersecurity incidents in cloud, traditional (i.e. on-premises), and hybrid environments. This position will be technically challenging and rewarding, but will also provide ample opportunity to establish partnerships, mentor colleagues and shape team culture.
The ideal candidate will be a technically experienced hands-on individual contributor and innovative security professional who has the ability and experience to lead a team of security professionals and execute broad security goals within a global team. Candidates should be experienced in coaching junior team members.
Requirements :
- Bachelor's and master's degree in a technically rigorous domain such as Computer Science, Information Security / Technology, Engineering, Digital Forensics, etc.
- 10+ years of professional experience in cybersecurity and / or information security or demonstrated equivalent capability.
- 8+ years hands-on working in cyber incident response and investigations in medium to large organizations with cloud and forensics components.
- Incident response and hands-on technical experience in a global financial institution.
- Experience with performing and managing tasks of 24x7 Incident Response services.
- Experience with creation, leading the development, implementation, and management of incident response plans and response activities.
- Proven leadership, communication, issue resolution and performance management skills.
- Lead by example.
- Enable team success by being approachable and available.
- Innovate and inspire others.
- Embrace challenges and approach any failures as opportunities for learning and improvement.
Responsibilities :
Lead and / or support in-depth triage and investigations of BAU, and urgent cyber incidents in traditional, and hybrid environments.Perform hands-on incident response functions including but not limited to host-based analytical functions (e.g. digital forensics, metadata, malware analysis, etc.) through investigating Windows, Unix based, appliances, and Mac OS X systems to uncover Indicators of Compromise (IOCs) and / or Tactics, Techniques and Procedures (TTPs).Participate in incident response efforts using forensic and other custom tools to identify any sources of compromise and / or malicious activities taking place.Serve as the SOC incident response regional contact in major cyber events and security incidents. This will include collaborating with global multidisciplinary groups to triage and define scope, as well as documenting and presenting investigative findings.Provide security expertise to the SOC IR team, leveraging industry standards as appropriate. Train and coach junior colleagues on relevant best practices.Partner with SOC Incident Response management on all program governance activities, including the development and / or maintenance of standards, procedures, metrics, reporting and training.Collaborate with other incident response functions such as Citi Security Investigative Services (CSIS) and Security Incident Management (SIM).Oversee and participate in the hands-on execution of SOC IR processes. Identify and measure critical metrics and continually improve the efficiency and effectiveness of all core services in scope.Provide appropriate updates to management regarding security event handling, trends, analysis, incident response resolutions and lessons learned.Participate in readiness exercises such as purple team, tabletops, etc.A skilled and creative incident responder. Success will depend on your ability to :
Stay current with the evolving landscape of threat activities and cybersecurity best practices.Quickly synthesize information from disparate sources.Scrutinize evidence thoroughly to identify relationships and develop leads.Establish defensible working theories to explain observations and findings.Perform investigations in a forensically sound manner.