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Introduction

The Computer Security Incident Response Team (CSIRT) manages security incidents, leads investigations, and remediates threats to systems and data. The cybersecurity specialist works in Incident Response and/or Digital Forensics.

Your role and responsibilities

As an Incident Responer, you handle security incidents from intake through triage, protection and remediation. You communicate effectively with business and technical teams across the company, including executive management, as well as corporate functions. You conduct meetings with stakeholders to facilitate the exchange of information, agree on and track the completion of actions, and document the findings and lessons learned.

Working with global teams across the company, you ensure that security incidents are handled in a timely and professional manner and contribute to the ongoing improvement of IBM’s overall IT security posture.

Required education
None
Preferred education
Bachelor's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise
  • Experience with incident management and understanding of security incident management standards and best practices. 
  • Strong oral and written communications skills in English, additional languages are a plus. 
  • Strong interpersonal and organizational skills. 
  • Knowledge of common security threats, attack vectors and penetration techniques. 
  • Knowledge of Unix shell and common scripting languages for data manipulation.
Preferred technical and professional experience
  • At least two years’ experience in Incident Response and/or Digital Forensics in a global enterprise. 
  • At least one Information Security Professional Certification (e.g. CISSP, GIAC, CFCE, CCE, DFCP, GCIH). 
  • Familiarity with IBM QRadar SIEM and Resilient is a plus.

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Systems helps IT leaders think differently about their infrastructure. IBM servers and storage are no longer inanimate - they can understand, reason, and learn so our clients can innovate while avoiding IT issues. Our systems power the world’s most important industries and our clients are the architects of the future. Join us to help build our leading-edge technology portfolio  designed for cognitive business and optimized for cloud computing.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

 

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

 

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

ABOUT IBM

IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

 

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 50 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business. 

 

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.


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