Principal Security Engineer - Incident Response
Core
Lead end-to-end cyber crisis management, incident response program governance, and AI security operations for F5's infrastructure, products, and customer-facing environments.
Role type
Principal Individual Contributor, Incident Response Lead
Builds
Incident response playbooks, governance standards, automated triage frameworks, and executive reporting metrics
Domain
Cybersecurity, Cloud Security, AI Security, Application Security
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | client delivery | infrastructure
Required skills
Incident response leadership, cross-functional crisis coordination, executive communications, AI security operations, cloud security architecture, threat hunting, vulnerability response, stakeholder orchestration, automation strategy
Preferred skills
NIST/ISO/SOC/PCI/GDPR framework knowledge, tabletop exercise design, AI model governance, digital forensics
Technologies
CrowdStrike, SIEM, WAF/WAAP, Kubernetes, API gateways, EDR, cloud infrastructure, AI inference traffic
Responsibilities
Own incident response roadmap and severity models; lead high-severity cyber and product security incidents; build AI security response capabilities; influence security strategy across engineering and legal teams; define KPIs for response effectiveness; mentor security engineers
Seniority
Principal, hands-on IC with strategic influence
