# Incident Commander, Detection & Response - APAC

**Company**: OpenAI
**Location**: Remote, Australia
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Security
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q124605186

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**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_08374273-80a

## Description

## Job Summary

As an Incident Commander on Detection & Response, you'll lead the response to complex security incidents affecting OpenAI's intellectual property, customer data, and infrastructure.

## Key Responsibilities

- Run incident command from initial assessment through containment, recovery, and closure, establishing severity, scope, response objectives, and escalation needs.

- Assign work stream owners and coordinate investigation, containment, and recovery in parallel.

- Drive timely containment and recovery decisions with the appropriate owners, weighing security risk, evidence preservation, and operational impact within agreed decision rights.

- Communicate incident status, impact, uncertainty, actions underway, and the next update to technical and nontechnical stakeholders.

- Manage cross-time-zone handoffs with explicit command ownership, current status, outstanding risks, pending decisions, and next actions.

- Improve response readiness through exercises, playbooks, and post-incident reviews; track agreed corrective actions with their owners.

- Partner with detection engineers to evaluate telemetry and detection quality, close incident-related visibility gaps, and prioritize practical response automation.

## Requirements

- Have personally led complex security incidents as incident commander or an equivalent response lead, with clear examples of decisions, delegation, escalation, and outcomes.

- Make sound decisions with incomplete information and revise them as evidence changes, balancing containment urgency with operational impact.

- Coordinate responders across teams and time zones, resolve conflicting priorities, and maintain clear ownership during handoffs.

- Communicate calmly and precisely under pressure, including concise stakeholder updates and explicit statements of uncertainty.

- Have the security and infrastructure fundamentals to challenge investigation findings and assess containment and recovery options.

- Understand detection engineering, including telemetry coverage, detection logic, false positives and false negatives, and validation.

## Benefits

OpenAI offers a range of benefits, including opportunities for professional growth and development, a dynamic and supportive work environment, and a commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion.

## Skills

### Required
- incident command
- security incidents
- detection engineering
- telemetry
- communication

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