Incident Response Engineer Job Description

Incident Response Engineer Job Description Template

Our company is looking for a Incident Response Engineer to join our team.

Responsibilities:

  • Track and report on vulnerability remediation efforts;
  • Reproduce exploits and attacks to analyze adversary Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures to to generate new signatures to enhance detection capability;
  • Identify, track, and report on emerging threats to Geotab’s security, products, and customers;
  • Assist in developing mitigation and remediation steps and Incident Response programs;
  • Escalate incidents internally and according to protocol, to ensure all necessary parties are informed and actively engaged where necessary;
  • Help determine security risk to Geotab by quantitatively evaluating risk using industry standard metrics (such as CVSS);
  • Provide regular reporting back to Security Management team;
  • Ensuring that Geotab’s compliance requirements are met (ie NIST 800-53);
  • Develop Big Data skills to leverage data to improve monitoring;
  • Support Engineering teams to provide in-depth technical analysis of security issues;
  • Prioritize and coordinate case-specific response activities, driving timely and appropriate remediation of issues.

Requirements:

  • Experience using Splunk, QRadar, or other SIEM tools are huge assets;
  • Experience with Python, Powershell, Bash, and SQL;
  • Professional certifications such as CEH, GIAC, GCIH, GWAPT, GPEN, OSCP, or OSCE are highly regarded;
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field of study.