Incident Response Lead for AI Infrastructure

Nscale; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 225,000; Full time

Job summary

Nscale is hiring a Security Incident Response Lead to own and evolve incident response in a high-scale, AI-native environment. This hands-on leadership role focuses on investigations across infrastructure, enterprise systems, and security events, driving containment, eradication, and recovery.

The role partners with Detection & Response and cross-functional stakeholders including Infrastructure, IT, Legal, and Compliance.

Qualifications

• 8–12+ years of experience in incident response, security operations, or digital forensics.
• Proven experience leading complex, high-severity incident investigations in cloud or distributed environments.
• Hands-on experience with SIEM, EDR/XDR, and detection tooling.
• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure and modern production environments.
• Strong communication skills to brief leadership and coordinate across teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end security incident response across the organization.
• Act as the incident commander for high-severity events.
• Coordinate cross-functional response efforts with Infrastructure, IT, Legal, and Compliance.
• Develop and maintain incident response playbooks and runbooks.
• Lead post-incident reviews and root cause analysis efforts.
• Build and scale incident response tooling and automation.

Skills

Incident response

Security operations

Digital forensics

SIEM

EDR/XDR

Cloud infrastructure

Leadership

Tools

SIEM

EDR/XDR

Detection tooling

Job description

Nscale is hiring a Security Incident Response Lead to own and evolve incident response in a high-scale, AI-native environment. This hands-on leadership role focuses on investigations across infrastructure, enterprise systems, and security events, driving containment, eradication, and recovery.

The role partners with Detection & Response and cross-functional stakeholders including Infrastructure, IT, Legal, and Compliance.