Senior Security Operations Engineer, Incident Response

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

📋 Description

• Oversee security incidents from beginning to end, including detection, triage, containment, remediation, and post-incident evaluation.

• Serve as the incident commander, facilitating decisive actions and ensuring alignment among teams during high-pressure scenarios.

• Perform in-depth investigations across cloud and endpoint environments to identify root causes and assess impact.

• Collaborate with the Observability & Automation team to enhance detections, minimize false positives, and create automated response playbooks.

• Assist in the development and enhancement of incident response playbooks, runbooks, and documentation to boost preparedness and uniformity.

• Work alongside Security, Infrastructure, and Product teams to pinpoint vulnerabilities and fortify the incident response lifecycle.

• Communicate effectively throughout incidents, providing clear updates to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 5 years of experience in Security Operations or Detection & Response, with substantial hands-on incident response experience in cloud environments (preferably AWS and EKS).

• Demonstrated capability to lead security incidents, including containment and remediation, in dynamic environments.

• Strong investigative and analytical abilities, with the capacity to integrate signals from various data sources.

• Familiarity with security tools such as SIEM and EDR platforms (e.g., Splunk, Elastic, SentinelOne, CrowdStrike, or similar).

• Comprehensive understanding of cloud security principles and their practical applications.

• Excellent communication skills, with a talent for conveying information clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.

• Experience in developing or enhancing automation for incident response workflows (e.g., scripting in Python; experience with infrastructure-as-code is an advantage).

🏝️ Benefits

• Health care coverage - Affirm covers all premiums for all levels of coverage for you and your dependents.

• Flexible Spending Wallets - generous stipends for spending on Technology, Food, various Lifestyle needs, and family forming expenses.

• Time off - competitive vacation and holiday schedules allowing you to take time off to rest and recharge.

• ESPP - An employee stock purchase plan enabling you to buy shares of Affirm at a discount.