Senior Incident Response Lead — AI & Cloud Security

F5 Networks, Inc.; United States; Hybrid; USD 182,000 - 273,000; Full time

Job summary

F5 Networks, Inc. seeks a Principal Incident Response Lead to serve as the incident command and response program lead within the Office of the CISO.

You will coordinate cross-functional response efforts across infrastructure, applications, products, and customer environments, driving end-to-end incident management from detection through post-incident review. The role emphasizes building AI incident capabilities, executive communication, and strategic leadership to advance incident response

Qualifications

• 10+ years of cybersecurity experience, including incident response and security operations.
• Proven ability to lead enterprise-scale incident response programs in SaaS, cloud, hybrid, multicloud environments.
• Strong knowledge of modern attack techniques and crisis coordination.
• Experience influencing strategy across large organizations and cross-functional teams.
• FedRAMP eligible

Responsibilities

• Own incident response program leadership end-to-end, including coordination and post-incident learning.
• Lead AI security incident response capabilities for AI-enabled applications and services.
• Coordinate cross-functional stakeholders and executive reporting during incidents.
• Define KPIs for response effectiveness, vulnerability readiness, and resilience.
• Provide technical leadership across cloud, identity, endpoint, API, Kubernetes, and security domains.

Skills

Incident response

Security operations

Threat hunting

Vulnerability response

Executive communications

Job description

F5 Networks, Inc. seeks a Principal Incident Response Lead to serve as the incident command and response program lead within the Office of the CISO.

You will coordinate cross-functional response efforts across infrastructure, applications, products, and customer environments, driving end-to-end incident management from detection through post-incident review. The role emphasizes building AI incident capabilities, executive communication, and strategic leadership to advance incident response