Incident Response Lead

About us
Coalition is the world's first Active Insurance provider designed to help prevent digital risk before it strikes. Founded in 2017, Coalition combines broad insurance coverage with a digital risk assessment and continuous security monitoring to help organizations protect themselves in today's hyper-connected world.
Opportunities to make an impact with bold thinking are real - and happening daily.
Responsibilities

• Drive Incident Response engagements to guide our customers through forensic investigations, contain security incidents, and provide guidance on longer term remediation recommendations.
• Coordinate and guide Incident Response assistance from team members and vendors
• Investigate customer data breaches and malicious activity leveraging forensics tools; analyze Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X systems to identify Indicators of Compromise (IOCs); examine firewall, web, database, and other log sources to identify evidence of malicious activity.
• Provide case reporting as required across internal and external audiences with the appropriate technical level of detail for threat researchers and/or business customers.
• Evaluate customer security programs, technologies, controls, and business environments; recommend and develop enhancements.
• Provide recommendations on solutions to help customers navigate information security risk.
• Track emerging security practices and contribute to building internal processes, and our various products.
• Stay abreast of the current regulatory environment, industry trends and related implications.

Skills and Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Security, Engineering, or other relevant subjects.
• 5+ years of Incident Response or digital forensics experience.
• Demonstrated practiced knowledge of the lifecycle of network threats, attacks, attack vectors, and methods of exploitation with a knowledge of intrusion set tactics, techniques, and procedures.
• Knowledge of TCP/IP Protocols, network assessment and network/security applications, including log and network traffic capture assessment.
• Experience with Velociraptor, Axiom, FTK, SIFT, Volatility, ELK, WireShark, Plaso, Skadi or other open source forensic/log analysis/network assessment tools.
• Experience with EDR tools like CrowdStrike Falcon, Carbon Black, Sentinel One, etc.
• Knowledge of industry standard frameworks - NIST, HIPAA, PCI.
• Self-motivated; entrepreneurial spirit; comfortable working in a dynamic environment.
• Strong interactive communication skills (verbal & written).
• Aptitude to learn technical concepts/terms, and aptitude to guide multiple tasks/projects simultaneously.
• Experience deploying tools to AWS and familiarity using Cloud based platform for assessment.

Additional Skills and Qualifications

• Excellent critical thinking skills with the experience to diagnose and troubleshoot technical issues
• Customer oriented with a strong interest in consumer satisfaction
• Experience to learn new technologies and concepts and comfortable using command-line interfaces
• Experience guiding teams of highly motivated analysts
• Communicate highly technical information to a non-technical audience
• Experience to handle and work with consumers through high priority scenarios
• Knowledge in project management
• Foster a positive work environment and attitude
• Flexibility with your work schedule in times of urgent response needs
• Contribute to thought guidance within the DFIR industry

Bonus Points

• GCIH, GCIA, GCFA, GCFE, ACE, EnCE, CFCE, CISSP, or similar
• Security policy, governance, privacy or regulatory experience (e.g., NIST, ISO, HIPAA, PCI).
• Securing cloud based platforms (Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS, etc.).
• Experience with system hardening procedures for Windows, Linux, Unix is helpful. Knowledge and/or experience with Nmap, Nessus, Nexpose, Qualys, Burp, Kali, Metasploit, Meterpreter, or other offensive tools is helpful.
• Knowledge of scripting for development of security tools and industry frameworks is helpful.
• SCADA/Control systems network experience is a plus.

Compensation
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The US base salary for this position ranges from $140,000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $215,000/year in our highest geographic market. Consistent with applicable laws, an employee's pay within this range is based on a number of factors, which include but are not limited to relevant education, skills, job-related knowledge, qualifications, work experience, credentials, and/or geographic location. Your recruiter can share more on target salary for your location during the interview process. Coalition, Inc. reserves the right to modify this range as needed.
Perks

• 100% medical, dental and vision coverage
• Flexible PTO policy
• Annual home office stipend and WeWork access
• Mental & physical health wellness programs (One Medical, Headspace, Gympass, and more)!
• Competitive compensation and opportunity for advancement

#LI-Remote
Why Coalition?
We're a remote-first, mission-driven team committed to building a more inclusive culture with people of all different backgrounds. We trust our team members to take responsibility, share ownership, and put in the work to help us in our pursuit to solve digital risk.
Coalition's exceptional growth stems from its ability to address real-world problems for organizations of all sizes and remain true to our founding values of character, humility, responsibility, purpose, authenticity, and inclusion. We are proud to have been named among Inc.'s Best Workplaces in 2021 and 2023 and one of Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies in 2022.
We're always looking for collaborative, inquisitive individuals to join #OurCoalition.
Visit our Newsroom >