Senior Manager, Security Incident Response

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Canada.

📋 Description

• Oversee security incidents and investigations by conducting assessments, containment, remediation, recovery, and post-incident evaluations.

• Act as the incident commander during significant security events.

• Organize extensive technical and cross-functional response teams.

• Direct technical investigations and root-cause analyses in collaboration with engineering teams.

• Confirm fixes and implement sustainable corrective measures.

• Lead and enhance the capabilities of a technical, engineering-focused response team.

• Establish operational goals and global preparedness practices, encompassing playbooks, escalation paths, exercises, on-call readiness, postmortems, and metrics for assessing response effectiveness.

• Enhance response tools, security telemetry, detection mechanisms, and automation, including agentic AI workflows.

• Convert security metrics into executive dashboards and risk reports suitable for board-level discussions.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 10 years of experience in security operations, incident response, or a related security domain.

• Demonstrated capability to lead significant security incidents and investigations in technology-focused, cloud-native settings.

• Strong technical background in security operations, investigations, incident response, detection, root-cause analysis, and/or digital forensics within cloud and enterprise environments.

• Experience in managing and developing technical or engineering teams.

• Proven history of establishing scalable response capabilities through consistent practices, on-call readiness, exercises, postmortems, operational measures, and security tools like SIEM, EDR, or SOAR.

• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, including updates for executives and board-level reporting.

• Capacity to independently advance ambiguous tasks and drive investigations, remediation, and program enhancements to completion.

• Forward-thinking approach to AI and sound judgment in applying AI to security operations, with appropriate human oversight and safeguards in place.

🏝️ Benefits

• Monthly stipends for health, wellness, and technology expenses.

• Complete medical coverage, including dental and vision, fully subsidized for employees and their dependents.

• Flexible time off policies.

• Generous holiday calendar.

• Employee stock purchase plan (ESPP) with discounted Affirm stock.

• Remote-first work flexibility.

• Inclusive interview process and accommodations available for candidates with disabilities.

• In-person onboarding experience.