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About the Position
Twitch is looking for an experienced Manager to lead our Security Incident Response Team (SIRT). Reporting to the Director of Security Resilience, the SIRT Manager will oversee a team responsible for communicating, handling, recovering from, and most importantly learning from security incidents.
We're looking for someone with expertise in incident handling, threat hunting, threat intelligence, network security monitoring and digital forensics.
Your team will work directly with the affected team to contain, and learn from the event. We encourage you to apply if you have a combination of skills outlined below.
You can work from San Francisco, CA; Seattle, WA; or remote anywhere in the United States!
You Will
- Participate in an on-call rotation that includes your directs on the SIRT
- Identify opportunities for automation to enhance the team's efficiency.
- Qualify reports or alerts of activity as security incidents using clear guidelines that establish what a security incident is
- Evaluate the potential and realized impact of security incidents to Twitch
- Communicate security incident details, impact assessments, and response actions to leadership and executive partners.
- Foster a culture of learning and knowledge sharing within the team and across the organization.
Perks
- Medical, Dental, Vision & Disability Insurance
- 401(k)
- Maternity & Parental Leave
- Flexible PTO
- Amazon Employee Discount
- Monthly Contribution & Discounts for Wellness Related Activities & Programs (e.g., gym memberships, off-site massages, etc.)
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations :
Irvine, CA, USA New York, NY, USA San Francisco, CA, USA Seattle, WA, USA Virtual Location - USA
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 5+ Years managing a team of incident handlers and security engineers or 2 years of management experience with 3-5 years of hands-on security incident response work
- Delivered security programs like network security monitoring, cloud security monitoring, incident response, threat hunting, or any other reactive information security programs
- A collaborative approach to incident response is collaborative, not combative.
- Automation experience using scripting or programming languages (Go, Python, Ruby, or Bash)
- Knowledge of internet security issues and threat landscape
- Background in cloud, host, network, and application security
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Background in cloud, host, network, and application security