Job Description

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\xe2\x80\x99re committed to our work, customers, having fun and most importantly to each other\xe2\x80\x99s success. Learn more about Splunk careers and how you can become a part of our journey!

The Role

The Advanced Response Team (ART) is responsible for coordinating the response to all Cyber Security Incidents at Splunk. As a team member on ART, you will lead the high-level responses to complex cyber security incidents affecting Splunk\xe2\x80\x99s 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
• Lead the response to sophisticated cyber security incidents across multiple teams, spanning all Splunk environments
• Lead analysts during technical investigations to reconstruct the chain of events that resulted in a cyber security incident and conduct analysis when needed
• Champion opportunities to improve Splunk\xe2\x80\x99s cyber security posture through threat hunt, detection, architecture, communications, 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 from a diverse set of network, host, and identity data sources
• 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 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
• Great interpersonal skills and ability to see things through the customer\xe2\x80\x99s eyes
• Participation in ART\xe2\x80\x99s on-call rotation to respond to off-hours/weekend incidents

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.