Senior Manager, SIRT
About Us
Twitch is the world’s biggest live streaming service, with global communities built around gaming, entertainment, music, sports, cooking, and more. It is where thousands of communities come together for whatever, every day. We’re about community, inside and out. You’ll find coworkers who are eager to team up, collaborate, and smash (or elegantly solve) problems together. We’re on a quest to empower live communities.
About The Role
As the SIRT Manager, you will lead Twitch's Security Incident Response Team, reporting to the VP of Security. You'll oversee a team responsible for detecting and handling security incidents, and be an advocate for lessons learned from incidents across Twitch. You bring expertise in threat intelligence, detection engineering, and incident response. Your team will work directly with affected teams to contain and learn from incidents. This role is open in San Francisco, CA; Irvine, CA; or Seattle, WA.
Responsibilities
- Initially participate in, and graduate to escalation for, an on-call rotation of your direct reports on the Incident Response Team
- Identify opportunities for automation to enhance your team's efficiency
- Qualify reports or alerts of activity as security incidents using clear guidelines that establish what constitutes a security incident
- Evaluate the potential and realized impact of security incidents to Twitch
- Communicate security incident details, impact assessments, and response actions to leadership and executive partners
- Foster a culture of learning and knowledge sharing within your team and across the organization
Requirements
- 5+ years managing a team of incident handlers and security engineers, or 2 years of management experience with at least 3 years of hands-on security incident response work
- Delivered security programs like network security monitoring, cloud security monitoring, incident response, threat hunting, or other reactive information security programs
- Collaborative, not combative, approach to incident response
- Automation experience using scripting or programming languages (Go, Python, Ruby, or Bash)
- In-depth knowledge of internet security issues and the threat landscape
- Background in cloud, host, network, and application security
Bonus Points
- Experience managing and mitigating high impact security risks on a global platform
- Familiarity with Twitch
Benefits
- Medical, Dental, Vision & Disability Insurance
- 401(k)
- Maternity & Parental Leave
- Flexible PTO
- Amazon Employee Discount
Pay
US, WA, Seattle - Annually $175,100—$236,900 USD
US, CA, San Francisco - Annually $201,300—$272,400 USD
US, CA, Irvine - Annually $175,100—$236,900 USD