Hybrid VP, Senior Incident Response Lead

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About the role

  • VP, Senior Incident Response Lead enhancing Synchrony’s incident response capabilities for cybersecurity operations. Leading technical strategies and initiatives while mentoring less-experienced team members.

Responsibilities

  • Spearhead key technical and strategic Incident Response initiatives with specific focus on Cloud Incident Response capabilities.
  • Benchmark and implement industry best practices for incident response and cybersecurity operations, such as MITRE ATT&CK and NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF).
  • Provide technical leadership and expertise to enable proactive detection of potential security threats and recommendations for improvements in overall security posture.
  • Proactively identify, research, and dissect emerging attack techniques to develop custom detection, containment, and remediation plans to support the JSOC.
  • Act as the technical SME for complex and priority targeted detection and response projects aimed at rapidly improving controls related to priority threats.
  • Coordinate with multidisciplinary teams across intel, detection, engineering and technology to iteratively improve security controls and detection capabilities.
  • Provide counsel to management regarding vendors and technologies, and interact with suppliers to ensure appropriateness of security tools and their configuration.
  • Mentor, and upskill less-experienced team members across cyber operations through coaching collaboration and leadership.
  • Interface with industry peers to acquire and share Incident Response best-practices in the sector.

Requirements

  • Minimum seven years of cyber security experience with at least five years focused on Threat Hunting, Incident Response, or Detection Engineering.
  • Expert level abilities to collect and analyze forensic artifacts across multiple major operating systems (Windows, Linux, Mac).
  • In-depth attack surface knowledge of one or more major cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP).
  • Proficiency in using python or other similar scripting language to interact with APIs or manipulate large datasets for analysis.
  • Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related discipline, or equivalent work experience in information systems or intelligence required, advanced degree preferred.
  • One or more relevant security certifications (GCIH, GCIA, GCFE, GCFA, SANS, AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, AWS Certified Security Specialty, or comparable).

Benefits

  • flexibility to work from home near one of our Hubs or come into one of our offices
  • in-person engagement activities such as weekly business or team meetings
  • training and culture events

Job title

VP, Senior Incident Response Lead

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

$155,000 - $260,000 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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