Senior Security Incident Handler (US Remote Available)
Join us as we pursue our innovative new vision to make machine data accessible, usable and valuable to everyone. We are a company filled with people who are passionate about our product and seek to deliver the best experience for our customers. At Splunk, we’re committed to our work, customers, having fun and most importantly to each other’s success. Learn more about Splunk careers and how you can become a part of our journey!
The Role
SplunkCIRT is responsible for coordinating the response to all Cyber Security Incidents at Splunk. As a team member on SplunkCIRT, you will lead the high-level responses to complex cyber security incidents affecting Splunk’s corporate and cloud environments. Successful incident commanders at Splunk are life long learners and passionate about all things security. Additionally, critical thinking and superb communication skills are vital for this role.
You will guide multifaceted and dynamic groups of teams across the company to contain incidents as quickly as possible. You will also figure out steps vital to complete a technical investigation to discover security gaps and malicious activity for near and long term remediation actions. Once the incident is contained, non-technical external partners will look to your expertise to gain context and key details from the incident to drive security standards across the organization.
Responsibilities
- Build strong relationships with business owners and service providers from across Splunk
- Command the response to sophisticated cyber security incidents across multiple teams, involving corporate and cloud environments
- Lead analysts during technical investigations to reconstruct the chain of events that resulted in a cyber security incident or conduct log analysis when needed
- Champion opportunities to improve Splunk’s cyber security posture through Threat Hunt, detection, architecture, and risk management work streams
- Tell the story of cyber security incidents via detailed reports and presentations to key business level partners
Requirements
- 5+ years professional IT or IT Security experience
- 2 years or more of experience leading the response to cyber security incidents
- Experience administering, defending, or analyzing MacOS or Linux
- Technical expertise and depth in two or more of the following areas: Digital Forensics, detection creation, threat hunting, cloud administration, programming/automation
- Experience with SIEM log analysis
- Experience responding to multiple incidents at the same time or large scale incidents
- Comfort mentoring junior analysts
- Experience documenting and automating repetitive tasks and playbooks, ideally in Python
- Experience with process business development and creation
- Ability to apply the MITRE ATT&CK and Killchain frameworks to security operations
- Ability to multitask, prioritize, and take-charge during stressful situations
- Ability to effectively communicate highly technical information to non-technical partners
- Good interpersonal skills and ability to see things through the customer’s eyes
- Participation in SplunkCIRT’s on-call rotation to respond to off-hours/weekend incidents
- Eligibility to work in the United States without company sponsorship
We value diversity at our company. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or any other applicable legally protected characteristics in the location in which the candidate is applying.
We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.
Note: Splunk provides flexibility and choice in the working arrangement for most roles, including remote and/or in-office roles. We have a market-based pay structure which varies by location. Please note that the base pay range is a guideline and for candidates who receive an offer, the base pay will vary based on factors such as work location as set out below, as well as the knowledge, skills and experience of the candidate. In addition to base pay, this role is eligible for incentive compensation and may be eligible for equity or long-term cash awards.
Benefits are an important part of Splunk's Total Rewards package. This role is eligible for a competitive benefits package which includes medical, dental, vision, a 401(k) plan and match, paid time off, an ESPP and much more! Learn more about our comprehensive benefits and wellbeing offering at https://splunkbenefits.com.
Base Pay Range
SF Bay Area, Seattle Metro, and New York City Metro Area
Base Pay Range: $147,200.00 - 202,400.00 per year
California (excludes SF Bay Area), Washington (excludes Seattle Metro), Washington DC Metro, and Massachusetts
Base Pay Range: $132,000.00 - 181,500.00 per year
All other cities and states excluding California, Washington, Massachusetts, New York City Metro Area and Washington DC Metro Area.
Base Pay Range: $124,000.00 - 170,500.00 per year
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About Splunk
Splunk was founded to pursue a disruptive new vision: make machine data accessible, usable and valuable to everyone. Machine data is one of the fastest growing and most complex areas of big data—generated by every component of IT infrastructures, applications, mobile phone location data, website clickstreams, social data, sensors, RFID and much more.
Splunk is focused specifically on the challenges and opportunity of taking massive amounts of machine data, and providing powerful insights from that data. IT insights. Security insights. Business insights. It’s what we call Operational Intelligence.
Since shipping its software in 2006, Splunk now has over 13,000 customers in more than 110 countries around the world. These organizations are using Splunk to harness the power of their machine data to deepen business and customer understanding, mitigate cybersecurity risk, prevent fraud, improve service performance and reduce costs. Innovation is in our DNA – from technology to the way we do business. Splunk is the platform for Operational Intelligence!
Splunk has more than 2,700 global employees, with headquarters in San Francisco, an office in San Jose, CA and regional headquarters in London and Hong Kong.
We’ve built a phenomenal foundation for success with a proven leadership team, highly passionate employees and unique patented software. We invite you to help us continue our drive to define a new industry and become part of an innovative, and disruptive software company.
Benefits & Perks: Wow! This is really cool!
SF Only
Medical, full company paid Dental, Vision and Life Insurance, Flexible Spending and Dependent Care Accounts, Commuter Accounts, Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP), 401(k), 3 weeks of PTO, sick leave, stocked micro kitchens in Splunk offices, catered lunches on Mondays, catered breakfast on Fridays, basketball hoops, ping pong, arcade games, BBQ’s, soccer, “Fun Fridays”.
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Non SF
Medical, full company paid Dental, Vision and Life Insurance, Flexible Spending and Dependent Care Accounts, Commuter Accounts, Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP), 401(k), 3 weeks of PTO and sick leave. Our work environments vary by location however we believe in hosting amenities and fun activities to fuel our energy. You may find fully stocked micro kitchens, catered lunches on Mondays and breakfast on Fridays, basketball hoops, ping pong, arcade games, BBQ’s, soccer and “Fun Fridays”.
This isn’t a job – it’s a life changer – are you ready?
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