Engineer, Information Security

At LinkedIn our approach to flexible work is centered on trust and optimized for culture connection clarity and the evolving needs of our business. The work location of this role is hybrid meaning it will be performed both from home and from a LinkedIn office on select days as determined by the business needs of the team.

About the team

LinkedIns members entrust us with their information every day and we take their security seriously. Our core value of putting our members first powers all the decisions we make including how we manage and protect the data of our members and customers. We never stop working to ensure LinkedIn is secure. We follow industry standards and have developed our own best practices to stay ahead of the increasing number of threats facing all Internet services and infrastructure.

We are looking for a Cybersecurity Incident Response Analyst with 2 years of experience to join our Incident Response team in Bangalore. This role is well-suited for an early-career security professional who has hands-on SOC or incident response experience and is ready to deepen their technical skills while contributing to security automation and engineering initiatives.

You will work closely with senior incident responders to investigate security incidents triage alerts and support continuous improvements across detection response and tooling.

Responsibilities:

           Incident Response:

• Triage investigate and respond to security alerts and incidents across endpoints cloud environments and networks
• Support containment remediation and recovery efforts for security incidents
• Handle basic insider threat alerts and escalate complex cases as needed

Cloud & Endpoint Investigations:

• Assist with investigations in public cloud environments (Azure AWS GCP)
• Analyze endpoint evidence across Mac Linux and Windows systems

Log Analysis & Monitoring

• Perform log analysis using SIEM and security monitoring tools to identify suspicious activity
• Help reduce false positives and improve detection quality through tuning and feedback

Security Automation & Engineering Projects

• Contribute to development of security automations scripts and integrations using Python Go or similar languages
• Support improvements to incident response workflows and tooling

Documentation & Reporting

• Create accurate incident timelines and investigation documentation

Contribute to incident post-mortems and after-action reports

Qualifications :

Basic Qualifications 

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Cyber Security or a related technical field (or equivalent practical experience)
• 2 years of experience in cybersecurity SOC operations incident response or a related role
• Hands-on exposure to incident response tools and technologies (SIEM EDR forensic tools)
• Working knowledge of networking operating systems and security fundamentals
• Hands-on analytical and problem-solving skills especially during high-pressure incidents

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working in a SOC or incident response environment
• Exposure to SIEM platforms such as Splunk Wazuh QRadar or Rapid7
• Exposure to EDR tools like CrowdStrike SentinelOne or Microsoft Defender
• Basic cloud security experience (Azure AWS or GCP)
• Experience with scripting or programming (Python PowerShell Bash Go or Java)
• Familiarity with vulnerability management VAPT fundamentals and firewall technologies

Suggested Skills:

• Endpoint & Network Security
• Scripting and Automation (e.g. Python PowerShell)

Additional Information :

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Employment Type :

Full-time