Incident Response Engineer
- Further develop our incident response program
- Utilizes and adheres to defined workflow and processes driving Incident Response and mitigation efforts
- Provide root cause analysis, create metrics, management, dashboards, administration of monitoring tools, and communication process
- Collects supporting information and/or relevant artifacts in support of Incident Response activities
- Identify and execute on projects that improve our intrusion detection and incident response capabilities
- Conducts technical analysis on impacted systems to determine impact, scope, and recovery from active and potential cyber incidents
- Leverages Forensics tools, techniques, and capacities to support Cyber Incident Response activities
- Documents results of cyber threat analysis and subsequent remediation and recovery in an effective and consistent manner
- Executes the Incident Response lifecycle and coordinating remediation activities throughout the organization and its lines of business as a part of Cyber Incident Handling
- Applies thought leadership to enhance and advance the defensive capabilities of the Threat Management Center (TMC) and its subsequent ability to defend Avant
- Recommends solutions to optimize both technical and process/procedure aspects of the end to end incident lifecycle
- Provides Training and Mentoring of Junior team members
- Previous experience with dynamic and/or malware analysis
- Experience with Enterprise Anti-Virus, IDS, Full Packet Capture and Host/Network Forensics Tools
- Understanding of Networking (including the OSI Model, TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP, SMTP), System Administration, and Security Architecture
- Experience executing various Incident Response Frameworks and Handling Procedures
- Program and Scripting Experience
- Strong understanding of Operating Systems: Windows, Unix/Linux, and OSX Operating Systems
- Strong communication and presentation skills along with the ability to work in a highly collaborative environment
- Exhibits initiative, follow-up and follow through with commitments
- Strong relationship skills and collaborative style to enable success across multiple partners.
- Manages multiple priorities in a high pressure environment
- Demonstrates effective organizational and technical skills
- Effective verbal and written communication skills
- Related Certification (A+, Network+, Security+, CISSP, GCIH, GCFA, GCFE, GNFA, GREM ) a plus
- Ability to comply with any regulatory requirements
Why Avant is a fit for you: At Avant, we believe our values make a difference:
We value, support, and help each other grow
We are committed to active inclusion and diversity
We are transparent and believe the best idea wins
We succeed when our customers succeed
We get sh!t done… responsibly
And we keep it fun! We believe that ideas are more important than titles, everything is more fun together, everyone drives change, and everyone is an owner. While we believe the perks and benefits that we offer are terrific, nothing excites us more than having the ability to collaborate with intelligent, highly-motivated and talented people on challenging problems as we work to change the face of online lending.