Incident Response Lead Specialist, Vice President

About the role

Discover your opportunity with Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), one of the world’s leading financial groups. In this role, you will focus on researching potential cybersecurity threats to various systems, technologies, operations, and programs throughout multiple environments. You will perform analysis based on this research to determine the risk to the organization and take appropriate actions based upon that analysis.

Responsibilities

• Rapidly respond to potential incidents and events to minimize risk exposure and ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of assets and business processes.
• Seek opportunities to strengthen remediation capabilities, reduce response times for incidents, and produce analyses of cybersecurity events that include perspectives on the behavior of adversaries.
• Conduct analysis of artifacts to determine methods of intrusion and best course of resolution while driving security improvement.
• Show strong Incident Response knowledge and experience.
• Have theoretical and practical knowledge with Mac OS, Linux, Windows operating systems and clouds such as AWS.
• Experience with security data collection, analysis and correlation.
• Develop strong analytic, qualitative, and quantitative reasoning skills.
• Demonstrate creative problem-solving abilities.
• Support inquiries from compliance teams such as IT risk management and internal and external auditors to ensure documentation is complete and processes are in compliance with information security policies.
• Create reports analyzing activities or trends both within and outside of the organization.
• Support the development of security operations detections, playbooks, and automations to ensure threat detection, monitoring, response, and forensics activities align with best practices, minimize gaps in detection and response, and provide comprehensive mitigation of threats.
• Monitor external service provider activity to detect potential cybersecurity events.
• Analyze security data from all systems in real time to spot and thwart potential threats, attacks, and other violations.
• Remediate compromised systems to a clean state.
• Investigate breach indicator assessments to investigate network traffic for malicious activity.
• Aid in internal or third-party employee investigations.
• Aid in the production of various reports which identify and analyze relevant upcoming and ongoing threats to the enterprise.
• Research evolving threats, techniques, tools, and vulnerabilities in support of information security efforts.
• Stay current with information security program developments, industry frameworks, changes in the company, industry trends, and current security practices.

Qualifications

• 8 + years of experience working in the Cybersecurity Operations or Information Security.
• Relevant technical and industry certifications, such as CISSP, ISSMP, SANS, GIAC, GCIA, CISM, CEH, GCFA, GCFE, GCIH, or GSEC are preferred.
• Experience in one or more security domains including Incident Response and Forensics, Security Governance and Oversight, Security Risk Management, Network Security, or Threat and Vulnerability Management preferred.
• Understanding of enterprise detection and response technologies and processes (advanced threat detection tools, intrusion detection/prevention systems, network packet analysis, endpoint detection and response, firewalls, Anti malware/anti-virus, Security Information and Event Management tools, etc.).
• Experienced with CrowdStrike, Torq, Tanium, Proofpoint, WAF, O365 security, AWS Security, and open-source incident response and forensic tools.
• Knowledge in one or more security domains including Security Governance and Oversight, Security Risk Management, Network Security, Threat and Vulnerability Management, or Incident Response and Forensics.
• Knowledge of cloud security, networks, databases, and applications.
• Ability to perform risk analysis utilizing logs and other information compiled from various sources.
• Understand network protocols, operating systems (Windows, Unix, Linux, databases), and mobile device security.
• Knowledge of enterprise cybersecurity frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK and Cyber Kill Chain.
• Experience in operational processes such as security monitoring, data correlation, troubleshooting, security operations, etc.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a closely-related discipline, or an equivalent combination of formal education and experience.

Pay

The typical base pay range for this role is as follows: $126k – $180k depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience and location. This role may also be eligible for certain discretionary performance-based bonus and/or incentive compensation.

Schedule

Our hybrid work schedule is four days on-site and work remotely one day per week.

Benefits

MUFG Benefits Summary We will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws (including (i) the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, (ii) the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, (iii) the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, and (iv) the California Fair Chance Act) to the extent that (a) an applicant is not subject to a statutory disqualification pursuant to Section 3(a)(39) of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934 or Section 8a(2) or 8a(3) of the Commodity Exchange Act, and (b) they do not conflict with the background screening requirements of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) and the National Futures Association (NFA).