ApplySarthiSecurity Incident Manager
Instacart
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Overview
Instacart is seeking experienced Security Incident Response Managers to lead our security investigations to completion. This role will be responsible for owning the end-to-end incident response process, following up on investigations, working with various stakeholders and leading RCA for postmortems. You will play a critical role in protecting Instacart's infrastructure, customer data, and business operations. This is a critical role as we scale our SIRT program.
The Security Incident Response team at Instacart plays a pivotal role in safeguarding the company’s infrastructure, customer data, and business operations. This team operates at the forefront of cybersecurity, managing an AI-enabled Security Operations Center (SOC) and driving proactive threat-hunting initiatives to stay ahead of emerging threats. By collaborating with cross-functional teams, the group ensures robust incident detection, rapid response, and continual improvement of security protocols. The team fosters a culture of excellence, innovation, and collaboration, enabling Instacart to maintain the trust of its users and tackle challenging security scenarios in a dynamic environment.
About the Job
- Lead security investigation, coordinating cross-functional teams during critical events and conduct post-incident reviews and drive implementation of lessons learned
- Partner with Security Engineering, Infrastructure, Product Security, and other teams on security initiatives
- Communicate security risks and incidents to executive leadership and stakeholders
- Leverage agentic skills to build Incident Management automation for repeated security investigation processes.
- Serve on call for your timezone and improve the SIRT program by monitoring metrics
About You
Minimum Qualifications
- 2+ years of experience in a Security Incident Management engineering, incident response, or security TPM role.
- Proven track record for accurate and succinct communication skills, attention to detail and journalistic style tracking of investigation.
- Proficient in Security domain, industry attack trends, public cloud infrastructure security.
- Deep understanding of incident response methodologies (NIST, SANS, etc.) and frameworks and project management
- Proficient in leveraging AI based workflows, automations and incident management tooling.
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Instacart provides highly market-competitive compensation and benefits in each location where our employees work. This role is remote and the base pay range for a successful candidate is dependent on their permanent work location. Please review our Flex First remote work policy here. Currently, we are only hiring in the following provinces: Ontario, Alberta, British Columbia, and Nova Scotia.
Offers may vary based on many factors, such as candidate experience and skills required for the role. Additionally, this role is eligible for a new hire equity grant as well as annual refresh grants. Please read more about our benefits offerings here.
For Canadian based candidates, the base pay ranges for a successful candidate are listed below.
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