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Staff Security Incident Commander

Santa Clara, California, us💼 Full-time💰 $146,200–$146,200🗓 2026-08-21 → 2026-09-25

Core

Orchestrate response and remediation for highest criticality security events, leading end-to-end resolution of Major Security Incidents (MSIs) and managing communications with executive stakeholders.

Role type

Staff Security Incident Commander (IC)

Builds

Incident response playbooks, procedures, and automated workflows for security incident management.

Domain

Cybersecurity / Incident Response / Cloud Security

Deliverable

client delivery | infrastructure

Required skills

Incident response leadership, risk assessment and prioritization, executive communication, playbook development, tabletop exercise facilitation, root cause analysis, process automation, MITRE ATT&CK familiarity, cross-regional coordination

Preferred skills

AI integration in security workflows, multi-domain security knowledge

Technologies

AI-powered tools, MITRE ATT&CK

Responsibilities

Lead response to critical security incidents, develop and maintain incident response playbooks, conduct tabletop exercises, prepare executive incident briefings, facilitate Post-Incident Reviews and Root Cause Analyses, identify automation opportunities for incident processes

Seniority

Staff, hands-on IC with strategic oversight

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