Security Engineer, Incident Response

Meta; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Meta Security is seeking an experienced Incident Response Engineer to lead investigations and drive incident resolution across a cross-functional environment. You will shape multi-year roadmaps and mature investigative and response services with automation and strong partnerships.

Ideal candidates have 10+ years in Security Incident Response, with expertise in detection, forensics, and leading complex programs. Strong collaboration with IT and software teams is essential.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in Security Incident Response and Detection & Response Engineering in a large, regulated organization.
• Experience leading and managing complex cross-functional programs.
• Experience with incident and program status reporting for leadership.

Responsibilities

• Conduct security investigations and lead incident response in cross-functional environments.
• Develop initiatives to improve detection, response and remediation capabilities.
• Refine metrics and SLAs to measure security operations and incident response services.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver multi-year roadmaps and projects.
• Coach and mentor team members for professional growth and long-term development.
• Partner with software and production teams to build scalable incident response solutions.
• Prioritize, automate and scale detection and response activities.

Skills

Incident Response

Security Operations

Threat Hunting

Cross-functional Leadership

Program Management

Automation

Malware Analysis

AI/Agent Orchestration

Team Mentoring

Threat Intelligence

Job description

Meta Security is looking for an Incident Response Engineer with experience coordinating, investigating and responding to internal and external threats. You will help the team establish, lead and execute multi-year roadmaps to mature investigative and response services, drawing upon automation and cross functional partnerships to create scalable and resilient operational capabilities., Security Engineer,

• 1. Conduct security investigations and lead security incident response in a cross-functional environment and drive incident resolution
• 2. Develop Incident Response initiatives that improve our capabilities to effectively respond and remediate security incidents
• 3. Refine operational metrics, key performance indicators, and service level objectives to measure Security Operations and Incident Response services
• 4. Influence and align the team's vision and strategy. Collaboratively prioritize and deliver specific multi-year roadmaps and projects
• 5. Build, cultivate, and maintain positive relationships with internal customers to identify and facilitate solutions to increase the impact of the team's work
• 6. Partner with cross-functional teams to solve challenges related to a broad spectrum of detection and response initiatives
• 7. Collaborate with software and production engineering teams to develop scalable and flexible Incident Response and Investigative solutions
• 8. Focus on ruthlessly prioritizing, automating and scaling every aspect of our detection and response capabilities
• 9. Coach and mentor team members to support their professional growth and long-term career development
• 10. 10+ years of work experience in Security Incident Response and Detection & Response Engineering in a large, regulated organization
• 11. Be a technical and process subject matter expert regarding Security Operations and Incident Response services
• 12. Experience developing and delivering information on incident and program status for leadership
• 13. Experience leading and managing complex cross-functional programs
• 14. Experience responding to both external and insider threats
• 15. Experience analyzing network and host-based security events
• 16. Knowledge of networking technologies, specifically TCP/IP and the related protocols
• 17. Knowledge of operating systems, file systems, and memory structures on Windows, MacOS and Linux
• 18. Coding/scripting experience in one or more general purpose languages
• 19. Experience with attacker tactics, techniques, and procedures,
• 20. Broad knowledge across the Security domain, as well as deep focus in one (or more) areas such as Logs and events processing, Incident Management, Digital Forensics, Detection and/or response tool development
• 21. Background in malware analysis, digital forensics, intrusion detection, and/or threat intelligence
• 22. Experience recruiting, building, and leading technical teams, including performance management
• 23. Experience adhering to and implementing responsible, ethical AI practices (e.g., risk assessment, bias mitigation, quality and accuracy reviews)
• 24. Demonstrated ongoing AI skill development (e.g., prompt/context engineering, agent orchestration) and staying current with emerging AI technologies
• 25. Experience in threat hunting including leveraging intelligence data to proactively identify and iteratively investigate suspicious behavior across networks and systems
• 26. Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows and drive measurable impact (e.g., efficiency gains, quality improvements)