Senior Information Security Analyst - Incident Response/ Digital Forensics

At American Express, our culture is built on a 175-year history of innovation, shared values and Leadership Behaviors, and an unwavering commitment to back our customers, communities, and colleagues. As part of Team Amex, you'll experience this powerful backing with comprehensive support for your holistic well-being and many opportunities to learn new skills, develop as a leader, and grow your career.

Here, your voice and ideas matter, your work makes an impact, and together, you will help us define the future of American Express.

How will you make an impact in this role?

American Express is on a mission to provide the world’s best customer experience every day. Rooted in this vision is the work of the Technology Risk & Information Security organization, empowering the company to deliver superior service through trust, security, and safety. Our culture is centered around passion, curiosity, and courage, enabling you to innovate and evolve a Fortune 100 company. You can help us achieve this mission! Are you ready to protect one of the most admired brands from today’s, and tomorrow’s advanced threats?

American Express seeks to recruit a passionate, and experienced intrusion response lead analyst for its incident response team. This is a senior level hands-on, highly technical role performing incident response activity ranging from pre-incident (preparation), active incident, to post incident. You will be a key technical resource in conducting investigations, performing analysis, identifying TTPs, building the attack narrative, and taking response actions. You are a motivated professional that will assist with people, processes, and technology that empowers the team to investigate sophisticated threats. This role requires critical thinking, innovative problem solving, leading analysis, and effective communications. 

Responsibilities

• Conduct host forensics, network forensics, log analysis, and malware triage in support of incident response investigations and escalations from junior analysts across Windows, Mac, Linux, and Cloud platforms.
• Participate in incident response and crisis management activities.
• Advise leadership on containment, eradication, and recovery strategies during incident response.
• Fully scope incidents through proper identification of all affected systems and/or accounts.
• Recognize attacker tactics, techniques, and procedures as well as Indicators of Compromise (IOCs) / Indicators of Attack (IOAs) that can be applied to current and future investigations.
• Contribute to team projects, process improvement, and development of new capabilities.
• Curate a world class security operations and incident response team with a relentless focus on innovation and continuous improvement.
• Assess and develop incident response best practices to help mature the overall security operations of the organization.
• Make recommendations for improving enterprise risk posture based on individual research and technical expertise.
• Stay current on industry trends, attack techniques, mitigation techniques, and security technologies. 
• Produce high-quality written and verbal reports, recommendations, and actions.
• Participate in on-call rotation and provide after-hours support on an as-needed basis

Minimum Qualifications

• 1-3 years of experience in information security.
• Experience with host, network, and/or memory forensics
• Experience with various network and/or host-based security tools to detect and respond to security events. (e.g. SIEM, web proxy, intrusion detection/prevention, etc.)
• Theoretical and practical security knowledge and investigation experience with Mac, Linux, and Windows operating systems, as well as cloud environments.
• Theoretical and practical knowledge of Incident Response lifecycles
• Ability to convey complex technical concepts to audiences with varying levels of technical ability

Preferred Qualifications

• Excellent analytical, documentation, and communication skills. 
• Multiple applicable certifications (GSE, GDAT, GCIA, GCIH, GCFA, GNFA, GCFE, GREM, CCSP, CEH, CCISP)
• Knowledge and investigation experience in a global, multi-cloud environment.
• Experience in programming and/or scripting languages (Python, PowerShell, Go, etc.)

Salary Range: $110,000.00 to $190,000.00 annually + bonus + benefits

The above represents the expected salary range for this job requisition. Ultimately, in determining your pay, we’ll consider your location, experience, and other job-related factors.

We back you with benefits that support your holistic well-being so you can be and deliver your best. This means caring for you and your loved ones' physical, financial, and mental health, as well as providing the flexibility you need to thrive personally and professionally:

• Competitive base salaries 
• Bonus incentives 
• 6% Company Match on retirement savings plan 
• Free financial coaching and financial well-being support 
• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits 
• Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need 
• 20+ weeks paid parental leave for all parents, regardless of gender, offered for pregnancy, adoption or surrogacy 
• Free access to global on-site wellness centers staffed with nurses and doctors (depending on location) 
• Free and confidential counseling support through our Healthy Minds program 
• Career development and training opportunities

For a full list of Team Amex benefits, visit our Colleague Benefits Site.

American Express is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, disability status, age, or any other status protected by law. American Express will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with arrest or conviction records, in accordance with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including, but not limited to, the California Fair Chance Act, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance. For positions covered by federal and/or state banking regulations, American Express will comply with such regulations as it relates to the consideration of applicants with criminal convictions.

We back our colleagues with the support they need to thrive, professionally and personally. That's why we have Amex Flex, our enterprise working model that provides greater flexibility to colleagues while ensuring we preserve the important aspects of our unique in-person culture. Depending on role and business needs, colleagues will either work onsite, in a hybrid model (combination of in-office and virtual days) or fully virtually.

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