Intermediate Security Engineer, Security Incident Response Team (SIRT)

GitLabOceaniaMid LevelSecurity

Specialty

Security

The role

GitLab is hiring an Intermediate Security Engineer for its Security Incident Response Team, protecting GitLab.com and the company. The role uses a compressed four-day schedule with shifts Sunday through Wednesday for 24/7 coverage. All GitLab roles are remote.

What you will do

  • Lead incident response in a 24/7 global rotation, from detection through containment and recovery
  • Write and maintain incident response runbooks and standard procedures
  • Run root cause analysis and lessons-learned reviews after incidents
  • Design automated security processes to reduce manual work
  • Identify security gaps and build better detection and response capabilities

What they ask for

  • Able to run incident response processes independently
  • Experience with SIEM or security logging tools
  • Experience with cloud platforms such as GCP or AWS
  • Python skills or strong willingness to learn
  • Willing to work four longer days, Sunday through Wednesday
  • Interest in technical documentation and forensic analysis of infected hosts

What they offer

  • Flexible paid time off
  • Equity compensation and employee stock purchase plan
  • Growth and development fund
  • Parental leave

This is our own short reading of the posting. The full description, and anything that has changed since, is on GitLab's careers page behind the apply button.

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