Senior Cybersecurity Incident Responder

Description

At U.S. Bank, we’re on a journey to do our best. Helping the customers and businesses we serve to make better and smarter financial decisions and enabling the communities we support to grow and succeed. We believe it takes all of us to bring our shared ambition to life, and each person is unique in their potential. A career with U.S. Bank gives you a wide, ever-growing range of opportunities to discover what makes you thrive at every stage of your career. Try new things, learn new skills and discover what you excel at—all from Day One.

This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship.

Requirements

• 4+ years of relevant hands-on cybersecurity Incident Response, Incident Handling, or Digital Forensics and Incident Response (DFIR) experience.
• Demonstrated experience personally investigating cybersecurity incidents from escalation through conclusion.
• Strong security log analysis and security telemetry investigation skills.
• Hands-on experience using Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) platforms.
• Hands-on experience using Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) technologies.
• Experience with digital forensics, cyber investigations, or forensic analysis.
• Knowledge of network security concepts, protocols, and network activity analysis.
• Experience investigating security activity across endpoints, networks, web applications, firewalls, and related security controls.
• Ability to analyze multiple sources of technical evidence and reconstruct cybersecurity incidents.
• Ability to independently manage complex incident investigations and reach technically supported conclusions.
• Ability to participate in an on-call rotation and respond to significant incidents outside normal business hours.
• Experience with Microsoft Sentinel.
• Experience with Microsoft Defender.
• Experience with Akamai security technologies.
• Advanced Security Operations Center (SOC) experience involving complex incident investigation.
• Digital Forensics and Incident Response (DFIR) experience.
• Threat hunting experience.
• Malware analysis or endpoint forensic investigation experience.
• Network forensic analysis experience.
• Red Team, penetration testing, or other offensive security experience combined with defensive incident response experience.
• Basic Qualifications
• Typically a Bachelor's degree, or equivalent work experience
• Typically five or more years of relevant experience
• Skill set in security incident and event management, log file analysis, network packet analysis, incident handling in both traditional network environments as well as cloud environments
• Proficient in threat intelligence platforms, security orchestration and automation, red/blue/purple team activities

Conditions

This role requires working from a U.S. Bank location three (3) or more days per week.

U.S. Bank is seeking a Senior Cybersecurity Incident Responder to join our Cybersecurity Incident Response team. This position is responsible for investigating escalated cybersecurity events, performing hands-on technical analysis, and determining the scope, impact, and root cause of security incidents.

This person will serve as a senior hands-on incident responder responsible for taking security events beyond initial SOC triage and independently investigating them through resolution. This person will analyze logs and security telemetry, perform digital forensic analysis, leverage SIEM and Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) technologies, and investigate suspicious activity across endpoints, networks, web applications, firewalls, and other security controls. The ideal candidate has significant hands-on incident response experience and can independently analyze technical evidence to determine what occurred during a cybersecurity incident.

Main Responsibilities:

Lead hands-on investigation of escalated cybersecurity events and incidents.

Determine whether suspicious activity represents a confirmed cybersecurity incident.

Analyze security logs, alerts, events, and telemetry to identify malicious or anomalous activity.

Reconstruct incident timelines and determine attack vectors, scope, impact, and root cause.

Perform digital forensics and technical analysis in support of cybersecurity investigations.

Use Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) and Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) platforms during active investigations.

Investigate suspicious activity involving endpoints, networks, web applications, firewalls, and other security technologies.

Identify indicators of compromise (IOCs) and other evidence associated with malicious activity.

Document investigation findings and communicate technically supported conclusions.

Collaborate with SOC analysts and other cybersecurity teams during complex or significant incidents.

Support containment, remediation, and recovery activities as appropriate during cybersecurity incidents.

Participate in an on-call rotation approximately every 4-6 weeks and provide after-hours support for significant cybersecurity incidents.

This role requires working from a U.S. Bank location three (3) or more days per week.

If there’s anything we can do to accommodate a disability during any portion of the application or hiring process, please refer to our disability accommodations for applicants .

Benefits

• Our approach to benefits and total rewards considers our team members’ whole selves and what may be needed to thrive in and outside work. That's why our benefits are designed to help you and your family boost your health, protect your financial security and give you peace of mind. Our benefits include the following:
• Healthcare (medical, dental, vision)
• Basic term and optional term life insurance
• Short-term and long-term disability
• Pregnancy disability and parental leave
• 401(k) and employer-funded retirement plan
• Paid vacation (from two to five weeks depending on salary grade and tenure)
• Up to 11 paid holiday opportunities
• Adoption assistance
• Sick and Safe Leave accruals of one hour for every 30 worked, up to 80 hours per calendar year unless otherwise provided by law
• Review our full benefits available by employment status here .