SOC/CDC Incident Responder / Engineer

Tasks

• Responsible for handling L3 incidents and guiding L1 & L2 support colleagues.
• Lead cybersecurity incident handling from triage to containment, eradication, recovery, and lessons learned.
• Perform in-depth incident analysis to identify root cause, attack path, affected systems, business impact, and required remediation.
• Coordinate response activities with CDC, IT, and business stakeholders.
• Create incident reports, timelines, documentation and recommendations.
• Create and improve incident response processes, playbooks and SOPs.
• Prepare and conduct trainings on incident investigation and response (e.g. tabletop, hands-on technical trainings).
• Support analysts to monitor, analyze and triage security events and alarms in real-time based on relevant security threats and risks.
• Support our cybersecurity engineers to continuously improve the CDC (e.g. fine-tuning detection rules).
• Pro-actively monitor the current threat level and initiate threat hunting.
• Possibility of working in a shift model in the future.

• Engineering degree in Computer Science, Information Security from reputed college/ university.
• Min. 5-8 years of professional experience in cybersecurity in a multinational company.
• Strong practical experience in incident handling, investigation and forensics.
• Must have experience in handling P1 & P2 issues at enterprise level. 
• Ability to stay calm under pressure and take ownership.
• Capability to analyze and eliminate  complex issues.

• Experience with SIEM, SOAR, EDR/XDR, firewalls, IDS/IPS, anti-malware or similar tools.
• Experience with cloud security and technologies such as AWS, Azure, M365.
• Knowledge of security frameworks and standards such as MITRE ATT&CK, NIST, ISO 27001.
• Experience in threat hunting, threat intelligence and/or IT service management (e.g. ITIL) is a plus.
• Relevant certifications such as GCIH, GCIA, GCFA, CySA+, CISSP, or similar are beneficial.
• Ideally, an interest in automation.
• Team player and excellent communication skills with fluency in speaking & writing English; German is added advantage.