Junior Security Incident Commander

The ServiceNow Security Organization (SSO)  

The ServiceNow Security Organization (SSO) delivers world-class innovative security solutions to reduce risk and protect the company and our customers. We enable our customers to migrate their most sensitive data and workloads to the cloud accelerating our business so that we are the most trusted SaaS provider. We create an environment where our employees are proud to work and can make a positive impact  

Job Description:

ServiceNows Security Incident Command (SIC) team is seeking a Junior Security Incident Commander to join our fast-growing team. This role will support the orchestration of incident response strategy and communications during critical information security-related incidents. 

About the SIC team:  

The SIC team maintains and executes the Major Security Incidents (MSI) lifecycle within ServiceNow including Preparation Response and Recovery. MSIs are our most challenging and impactful security incidents which pose active or heightened risk to the company and/or our customers.    

Key value areas are preparing the company for MSIs through tabletop exercises (TTX) coordination of activity between many response workstream partners maintenance and development of playbooks and procedures tracking key MSI metrics and facts to keep everyone oriented and communicating status milestones blockers and critical decisions needed to senior management and executive stakeholders including the CISO.  

What you get to do in this role:

• Assist with the orchestration of response and remediation of incident response for highest criticality security events. 
• Take ownership and lead response to low to moderate severity incidents. 
• Establish and mature documentation surrounding protocols and procedures governing the security incident command team. 
• Help prepare and deliver communications including executive summaries and incident briefings to key stakeholders during and after incident response. 
• Conduct rapid response mitigation and investigations on the highest priority cases impacting ServiceNow and user data. 
• Partner with the team members across multiple regions to drive response and investigations globally. 
• Assist with the organization and conduct of scenario-based exercises to test and improve incident management and response strategies. 
• Assist with maintaining existing playbooks and procedures as well as developing new ones to further standardize SIC and its partners responses when verifying MSIs. 
• Contribute to the organization and conduct of Post-Incident Reviews (PIRs) and Root Cause Analyses (RCAs) following major security incidents. 
• Assist in identifying new ways to simplify integrate automate and refine the major security incident process to better support internal and external stakeholders. 

Qualifications :

Qualifications:

• Experience in leveraging or critically thinking about how to integrate AI into work processes decision-making or problem-solving. This may include using AI-powered tools automating workflows analyzing AI-driven insights or exploring AIs potential impact on the function or industry. 
• 2 or more years of experience in incident response. 
• Experience leading or supporting complex security incidents to resolution end-to-end. 
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills (English) 
• Comfort communicating complex topics in a clear and concise manner to different tiers of audiences (highly technical less technical executives practitioners) 
• Problem-solving and decision-making skills 
• Ability to quickly and accurately assess a situation identify and prioritize risks and make sound decision 
• Familiarity with cybersecurity principles and frameworks (e.g. MITRE ATT&CK). 
• Knowledge across multiple security domains is a plus. 
• Experience planning and/or orchestrating tabletop exercises is a plus. 

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Additional Information :

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