Hybrid Incident Commander: Security Automation & 24/7

Rivian Automotive; Palo Alto (CA); Hybrid; USD 132,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

Rivian is seeking an Incident Commander to lead response capabilities with a code-first approach. You will minimize downtime by deploying automation and ensuring total observability across our environment, serving during critical cybersecurity incidents, and building integrations that scale detection, response, and recovery.

This hybrid role reports to the Sr. Manager Cybersecurity and involves coordinating cross-functional teams, driving Security as Code initiatives, and improving tooling and

Qualifications

• 5+ years in security operations or incident response.
• Command presence to manage high-stress incidents.
• Hybrid background with IR/DevOps/SRE/Infra preferred.
• Automation-first mindset with scripting skills.
• Cloud fluency across AWS/GCP/Azure.

Responsibilities

• Incident Command & Crisis Management for critical cybersecurity events.
• Engineering Resilience by developing automation scripts and SOAR workflows.
• Observability & Detection to ensure high-fidelity signals from logs.
• Blameless Post-Mortems with root-cause analysis and architectural improvements.
• Tooling & Integration bridging Security and DevOps for streamlined response.
• On-Call Rotation to provide 24/7 coverage.

Skills

Incident Response

Automation scripting

Cloud security

Observability

Executive communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Tools

SIEM

EDR

CI/CD

Kubernetes

Docker

Job description

Rivian is seeking an Incident Commander to lead response capabilities with a code-first approach. You will minimize downtime by deploying automation and ensuring total observability across our environment, serving during critical cybersecurity incidents, and building integrations that scale detection, response, and recovery.

This hybrid role reports to the Sr. Manager Cybersecurity and involves coordinating cross-functional teams, driving Security as Code initiatives, and improving tooling and