Wealthsimple is hiring a
Security Incident Response Lead

Summary

The job is for a Security Incident Response team member at Wealthsimple, a remote-first fintech company with over 1,000 employees. The role involves improving security incident response capabilities, growing the team, and participating in an on-call rotation.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in the Security domain
• 2+ years experience being an Incident Manager, taking ownership of investigations
• Understand how to turn noise into signals using a SIEM
• Some scripting ability (Python, Bash)
• Knowledge of and familiarity with cloud infrastructure

Responsibilities

• Help take our security incident response capabilities to the next level by building relationships with Engineering teams, new playbooks and finding opportunities for automation
• Grow others in the art of Incident Response to support the program and increase consistency in outcomes
• Play a key role in building and shaping the Security Incident Response team
• Take the role of Incident Commander to bring incidents to resolution
• Help shape the direction of investment by informing the business of trends and relevant metrics
• Partner with our Security Engineers to monitor, refine, and expand our SIEM and SOAR platforms
• 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

Preferred Qualifications

• Believes that honesty, transparency, and inclusivity are important when communicating with both internal and external stakeholders
• Demonstrates good judgement under pressure both in terms of technical problem solving and collaborating cross functionally

Benefits

• Competitive salary with top-tier health benefits and life insurance
• Retirement savings matching plan using Wealthsimple Work
• 20 vacation days per year and unlimited sick and mental health days
• Up to $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
• A wide variety of peer and company-led Employee Resource Groups (ie. Rainbow, Women of Wealthsimple, Black @ WS)
• Company-wide wellness days off scheduled throughout the year