Executive Response Specialist jobs in Waukesha, WI

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This is a hybrid position. Will require 3 days (M, T, and W) onsite at our downtown MKE location.

Primary Duties & Responsibilities:

• Operate in an incident command role for all major cybersecurity incidents across teams, including cyber-threats, insider risk, and third party.

• Planning and executing regular incident response and postmortem exercises, with a focus on creating measurable benchmarks to show progress.

• Be responsible for tracking the execution of playbooks, remediation actions, and lessons learned stemming from cybersecurity incidents.

• Understand the portfolio of technologies used in threat detection and response, with an eye toward identifying automation opportunities so staff can focus on more advanced tasks.

• Maintain the documentation and governance processes for multiple teams, ensuring all teams work meets quality standards.

• Develop and maintain KPIs and scorecards for operational effectiveness.

• Work with SIEM/SOAR teams to implement automation and detections to improve the organizations cyber-defense posture.

• Work within the cross-functional purple team to help plan and coordinate purple team activities.

• Product/Team Lead: Accountable for independently, and/or in coordination with team management, setting the vision and direction for the teams work and influencing work at the department level as well as assisting in the management of team members work allocation and time.

Qualifications

Hands-onexperience:

• Coordinating large-scale, long-duration incidents with multiple business, regulatory, third-party, and technical stakeholders.

• Skilled communicator, able to brief executive leadership and adapt materials quickly to answer new questions or provide information to a new audience.

• Preparing reports, slide decks, and other communications materials.

• Working within a defined GRC system, ensuring controls are documented and successfully tested.

• Working with BI, SIEM, and ticketing systems.

General knowledge:

• Familiarity with MITRE ATT&CK framework,understanding various techniques & tactics used by threat actors, and how those activities are detected.

• Familiarity with regulatory frameworks in cybersecurity and privacy.

• Relationship building

• SOC / Incident Response investigative skills, such as digital forensics, memory analysis, malware reverse engineering or threat hunting.

• Experience in scripted IT operationsby way ofSystems Administration,Software Development,DevOps, or Site Reliability Engineering.

• Strong problem-solving, ability to analyze, design, develop,deploy,and support solutions.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 5-7 years working in security operations roles.

• Experience operating in a 24x7 environment.

• Degree with an emphasis in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, MIS, or a related field

• Background in information technology with an emphasis on network or systems administration.

• Hold or willingness to obtain certifications such as GCIH, GCFE, GCFA, GDAT, CISSP, or other relevant security certifications.

Our Benefits!

• Tons of room for career growth.

• We offer highly competitive compensation, including annual bonus opportunities

• Medical/Dental/Vision plans, 401(k), pension program

• We provide tuition reimbursement, PTO, and Holiday Pay

• We provide extensive Professional Training Opportunities

• We offer an excellent Work/Life Balance

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