Staff Security Incident Response Commander_Hyderabad/Bangalore/Remote

Servicenow; Telangana; Hybrid; INR 3,000,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Job summary

ServiceNow is seeking an experienced Senior Security Incident Commander to join our Security Incident Command (SIC) team. You will oversee the orchestration of incident response strategy and communications during critical information security incidents.

In this role, you will collaborate with regional teams, develop playbooks, deliver executive briefings, and drive post-incident reviews to strengthen our defenses.

Qualifications

• 7–10+ years of total cybersecurity experience.
• 4–6+ years in incident response and/or incident management.
• Experience leading complex security incidents end-to-end.
• Excellent verbal and written communication in English.
• Ability to communicate complex topics to technical and executive audiences.
• Familiarity with cybersecurity frameworks (e.g., MITRE ATT&CK).
• Knowledge across multiple security domains is a plus.
• Experience planning tabletop exercises is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Orchestrate response and remediation for highest criticality security events.
• Take ownership and lead response to critical incidents.
• Establish and mature documentation for SIC protocols and procedures.
• Prepare and deliver executive summaries and incident briefings.
• Conduct rapid response, mitigation, and investigations on high-priority cases.
• Partner with regional teams to drive response globally.
• Organize scenario-based exercises to test incident management strategies.
• Maintain and develop playbooks to standardize SIC responses.
• Contribute to PIRs and RCAs after major incidents.
• Identify ways to simplify, automate and refine major incident processes.

Skills

Incident response

Incident management

Executive communication

Security leadership

MITRE ATT&CK

Job description

Company Description

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Job Description

ServiceNow’s Security Incident Command (SIC) team is seeking an experienced senior 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

• Orchestration of response and remediation of incident response for highest criticality security events.
• Take ownership and lead response to critical incidents within the company.
• Establish and mature documentation surrounding protocols and procedures governing the security incident command team.
• 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.
• Organization and facilitation of scenario-based exercises to test and improve incident management and response strategies.
• Maintenance of 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 completion of Post-Incident Reviews (PIRs) and Root Cause Analyses (RCAs) following major security incidents.
• Identify new ways to simplify, integrate, automate and refine the major security incident process to better support internal and external stakeholders.

Qualifications

• 7–10+ years of total cybersecurity professional experience
• 4–6+ years of deep domain expertise in incident response and/or incident management
• 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.

Additional Information

Work Personas

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Equal Opportunity Employer

ServiceNow is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, gender identity, veteran status, or any other category protected by law. In addition, all qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with legal requirements.

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