Security Incident Response Manager

Job Overview

You will leverage your security management experience to improve incident response capabilities at Stripe. You will manage a team of security analysts, investigators, and responders on the front lines of the incident response process, hiring, training, and evaluating their performance, providing technical guidance where needed, developing clear and consistent response procedures, and ensuring timely and effective resolution of casework.

Responsibilities

• Lead and support a team of security analysts, investigators, and responders who triage, assess, and respond to threats
• Provide technical guidance to the team, as a subject matter expert
• Influence the organisational mission and vision by ensuring prioritisation and delivery of project work that is aligned with relevant security roadmaps
• Strengthen KPIs and metrics for measuring response operations effectiveness, for clear and consistent reporting to internal stakeholders
• Work cross-functionally with security engineering teams to gather requirements for analysing and responding to security events data at scale while protecting Stripe networks, systems, and data from threats
• Develop, document, and implement strategies, runbooks, and capabilities to support the incident response process
• Continuously improve security processes and response capabilities by collaborating with security engineers and analysts
• Coach and mentor individual contributors, enabling career development and championing quality standards within the team

Requirements

• 5+ years experience leading Security Operations or Incident Response teams, including hands-on, technical management experience of security analysts or engineers
• B.S. or M.S. Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience in Security
• Experience recruiting, growing, and leading technical teams, including performance management
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to develop and deliver operational or incident-related information to leadership
• Advanced knowledge of data analytics, network security, digital forensics, and incident response investigations
• Experience with Python and SQL, and/or familiarity with other programming languages
• Familiarity with operating systems, file systems, and memory on macOS, Linux, or Windows
• Strong understanding of threat actor tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs)

Preferred Qualifications

• Broad knowledge and experience across the information security domain, including familiarity with endpoint, email, network, identity management, cloud security, vulnerability management, incident response, and threat intelligence
• Experience with engineering, data processing and analysis tools
• Familiarity with network observability, security software, or data engineering solutions