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Corporate Overview

Proofpoint is a leading cybersecurity company protecting organizations’ greatest assets and biggest risks: vulnerabilities in people. With an integrated suite of cloud-based solutions, Proofpoint helps companies around the world stop targeted threats, safeguard their data, and make their users more resilient against cyber attacks. Leading organizations of all sizes, including more than half of the Fortune 1000, rely on Proofpoint for people-centric security and compliance solutions mitigating their most critical risks across email, the cloud, social media, and the web.

We are singularly devoted to helping our customers protect their greatest assets and biggest security risk: their people. That’s why we’re a leader in next-generation cybersecurity.

The Role

We are currently hiring an Incident Response Analyst interested in joining our Global Information Security team – triaging, investigating, and responding to internal cyber threats and incidents while helping to design and build increasingly sophisticated capabilities for threat detection.

Working in collaboration with other members of the Operations, Engineering, Product Management, Legal, Customer Support, Compliance, and Security teams you will be a member of a small, nimble security incident response team that is improving productivity and security posture across our corporate and production systems.

Technologies you may work with include:

• Endpoint Detection and Response tools (Crowdstrike, FireEye, Cybereason, or similar)

• Security Incident and Event Management (Splunk ES, ThreatStack, ArcSight, IBM Qradar, ELK, or similar)

• Network Intrusion Detection Systems (Honeypots, Suricata, Security Onion, Snort, or similar)

• Digital Forensics and Incident Response (DFIR) tools (e.g. GRR, SIFT, Osquery, sysmon, Tripwire, or similar)

• Operating systems (Windows, Linux, macOS)

• Public cloud security controls (e.g. AWS, Azure, GCP)

• Virtualization and Containers (VMware, Docker, Kubernetes, or similar)

Your day-to-day

• Managing incoming queues of threat reports or detections

• Triaging and prioritizing competing incidents to maintain Service Level Agreements (SLA)

• Managing investigations including organizing unstructured work and engaging resources across the company

• Managing urgency and visibility to ensure timely response by all involved parties

• Owning an incident for it’s full lifecycle, including post mortem reviews and follow up actions

• Communication and coordination with Operations, Engineering, Product Management, Legal, Customer Support, Compliance, and Security teams

What you bring to the team

• Security Incident and Event Management experience in a team environment

• Ability to own the full lifecycle of an incident and collaborate across the company to drive it to resolution

• Experienced with a majority of the technologies listed above or equivalents

• Effective and efficient threat triaging and investigative skills

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills including a focus on providing continuous, proactive communications to management, peers, and stakeholders while working on incidents

• BSs in Computer Science or relevant experience in a similar role

Why Proofpoint

Protecting people is at the heart of our award-winning cybersecurity solutions, and the people who work here are the key to our success. We’re a customer-focused and driven-to-win organisation with leading-edge products. We are an inclusive, diverse, multinational company that believes in culture fit, but more importantly ‘culture-add’, and we strongly encourage people from all walks of life to apply.

We believe in hiring the best and the brightest to help cultivate our culture of collaboration and appreciation. Apply today and explore your future at Proofpoint! #LifeAtProofpoint

If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you'll enjoy your career with us!

Proofpoint has been honored with five Best Places to Work Awards in 2024 by workplace culture leader Comparably, including Best Company Outlook, Best Global Culture, Best Engineering Teams, Best Sales Teams, and Best HR Teams.

To view additional awards, please visit www.proofpoint.com/us/news#awards

Proofpoint thrives on the invaluable contributions of our diverse workforce, which encompasses a kaleidoscope of lived experiences, thoughts, perspectives, and professional expertise. We attribute much of our success to our people, who are at the core of our organization and embody our people-centric ethos.

We hire the most innovative minds globally to safeguard our customers’ sensitive data and intellectual property. Our talented workforce develops and leverages our advanced technology, combining their expertise to provide comprehensive protection against threat actors and mitigate the risks posed by both malicious and negligent employees.

Cyberattacks have the potential to disrupt access to vital resources such as energy, water, transportation, healthcare, and financial services. At Proofpoint, our dedicated team works tirelessly to ensure world-class cyber resilience, protecting approximately 8,000 enterprise customers worldwide.

We are committed to creating a diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment. We work every day to ensure that our employees feel that they are in a community that celebrates their unique identity, cultivates their sense of belonging, and invests in their professional growth. We have 9 employee-led employee inclusion groups which help support both employees and our organization by providing opportunities to network, discuss career and cultural development and uplift the corporate culture to create a more inclusive workplace.

At Proofpoint, we have a passion for protecting people, data, and brands from today’s advanced threats and compliance risks. We hire the best people in the business to:

• Build and enhance our proven security platform

• Blend innovation and speed in a constantly evolving cloud architecture

• Analyze new threats and offer deep insight through data-driven intel

• Collaborate with customers to help solve their toughest security challenges

   

We are singularly devoted to helping our customers protect what matters most. That’s why we’re a leader in next-generation cybersecurity—and why more than half of the Fortune 100 trust us as a security partner.

Proofpoint is an equal opportunity employer, we hire without consideration to race, religion, creed, color, national origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status or disability.

Proofpoint is an equal opportunity employer, we hire without consideration to race, religion, creed, color, national origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status or disability.