Systems Engineering Senior Associate, CSIRT
Salesforce2 days ago
Herndon, VA, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$117k - $177k/yr
Responsibilities
- Respond to and investigate cybersecurity events in SNS Cloud environments.
- Track and document security events and incidents in a ticketing system.
- Analyze log data and SIEM information for malicious activity and coordinate high-priority incident response actions.
- Provide incident updates to senior leaders, meet service-level agreements, and escalate issues as appropriate.
- Develop analytics, automate workflows, apply mitigations for adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures, and hunt for indicators of compromise.
- Support security disciplines including forensics, reverse engineering, malware analysis, intrusion detection, network security, and system security.
- Provide occasional 24x7 on-call support and travel locally to customer sites when required.
Requirements
- U.S. citizenship, no dual citizenship, and an active U.S. Government Top Secret/SCI clearance with polygraph are required.
- A related technical degree in areas such as Computer Science, Software Engineering, Cybersecurity, or Information Assurance, or equivalent work experience, is required.
- At least 2 years of experience in cybersecurity, engineering, and/or incident response roles is required.
- Strong understanding of information security threats, attack vectors, security tools, and system and network security practices is required.
- Strong communication, interpersonal, coordination, and problem-solving skills are required.
- Preferred qualifications include experience with AWS Cloud, Splunk, Azure Sentinel, ElasticStack, cloud security operations, TCP/IP and application-layer protocols, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, Linux/Unix, AWS, Azure, GCP, Kibana, Grafana, SQL, SPL, GraphQL, Bash, Python, security monitoring tools, system forensics, and certifications such as CISSP, GCFR, GCIA, or GCIH.
Benefits
- The role is customer-facing and on-site in Northern Virginia rather than remote.
- The position may require 24x7 on-call support and occasional local travel to customer sites.
- Salesforce offers time off programs, medical, dental, vision, mental health support, paid parental leave, life and disability insurance, 401(k), and an employee stock purchasing program.
About Salesforce
Salesforce builds cloud-based customer relationship management software and a broader Customer 360 platform for sales, service, marketing, commerce, and analytics, sold by subscription to businesses and public-sector organizations. Founded in 1999 and headquartered in San Francisco, it trades on the NYSE under the symbol CRM. Its portfolio includes Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Marketing Cloud, MuleSoft integration, Tableau analytics, and Slack for collaboration, with extensive developer tools and APIs.