Sr. Security Operations Engineer, Incident Response

8 hours, 9 minutes ago
Full-time
Senior
DevOps and Infrastructure
Affirm

Affirm

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Diversified Financial Services
1K-5K
Founded 2012

Description

  • Lead security incidents end-to-end from detection and triage through containment, remediation, and post-incident review.
  • Act as incident commander and drive clear decisions and alignment during high-pressure situations.
  • Conduct hands-on investigations across cloud and endpoint environments to determine root cause and impact.
  • Partner with Observability & Automation to improve detections, reduce noise, and build automated response playbooks.
  • Contribute to and refine incident response playbooks, runbooks, and documentation to improve readiness and consistency.
  • Collaborate with Security, Infrastructure, and Product teams to identify gaps and strengthen the incident response lifecycle.
  • Communicate incident status and updates clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience in Security Operations or Detection & Response.
  • Strong hands-on incident response experience in cloud environments, with AWS and EKS strongly preferred.
  • Proven ability to lead security incidents, including containment and remediation, in fast-moving environments.
  • Strong investigative and analytical skills with the ability to synthesize signals from multiple data sources.
  • Experience with security tooling such as SIEM and EDR platforms, including Splunk, Elastic, SentinelOne, CrowdStrike, or similar.
  • Solid understanding of cloud security concepts and their real-world application.
  • Strong communication skills across technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Experience building or improving incident response automation, such as scripting in Python.
  • Infrastructure-as-code experience is a plus.

Benefits

  • Remote-first work environment with flexibility to work almost anywhere within Canada.
  • Base pay range of $150,000 to $200,000 CAD per year.
  • Equity eligibility through Affirm Holdings, Inc.
  • 100% subsidized medical coverage for you and your dependents.
  • Dental and vision coverage for you and your dependents.
  • Monthly stipends for health, wellness, and tech spending.
  • Flexible Spending Wallets for technology, food, lifestyle needs, and family-forming expenses.
  • Competitive vacation and holiday schedules.

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