Security Incident Response Developer

Summary

Join Wealthsimple, a fintech company on a mission to help everyone achieve financial freedom, as an Incident Manager to build relationships, develop response playbooks, and automate actions to take security incident response capabilities to the next level.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in the Cybersecurity domain
• 3+ years experience being an Incident Manager, taking ownership of investigations
• Ability to lead a team during high-stress situations, providing direction and support to team members
• Has strong problem solving and communication skills and demonstrates good judgment under pressure both in terms of technical problem solving and collaborating cross functionally
• Experience developing response playbooks and courses of action
• Possesses excellent collaboration skills and the enthusiasm to operate in a multi-discipline environment
• Some scripting ability (Python, Bash)
• Experience building detections and turning SIEM alerts
• Knowledge of and familiarity with cloud infrastructure

Responsibilities

• Help take our security incident response capabilities to the next level by building relationships with our partners, developing response playbooks and automating actions
• Be part of a new team with influence in building and shaping the Security Incident Response program
• Take the role of Incident Commander to bring incidents to resolution
• Partner with our Security Developers to monitor, refine, and expand our SIEM and SOAR platforms
• Share root cause analysis findings by conducting post mortem meetings with cross-functional teams to enhance the organization's security posture through actionable insights and preventative recommendations
• Create detection logic to find anomalies and better prepare to reduce future incidents
• Coordinate with the Fraud and Privacy teams to investigate potential fraudulent and sensitive activity
• Participate in an on-call rotation for responding to security incidents, internal questions and operational support

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Top-tier health benefits
• Life insurance
• Retirement savings matching plan using Wealthsimple Work
• 20 vacation days per year
• Unlimited sick and mental health days
• $1,500 per year towards wellness and professional development budgets respectively
• 90 days away program: Employees can work internationally in eligible countries for up to 90 days per calendar year