**Description**

You Lead the Way. We’ve Got Your Back

With the right backing, people and businesses have the power to progress in incredible ways. When you join Team Amex, you become part of a global and diverse community of colleagues with an unwavering commitment to back our customers, communities, and each other. Here, you’ll learn and grow as we help you create a career journey that’s unique and meaningful to you with benefits, programs, and flexibility that support you personally and professionally.

At American Express, you’ll be recognized for your contributions, leadership, and impact—every colleague has the opportunity to share in the company’s success. Together, we’ll win as a team, striving to uphold our company values and powerful backing promise to provide the world’s best customer experience every day. And we’ll do it with the utmost integrity, and in an environment where everyone is seen, heard and feels like they belong.

Join Team Amex and let's lead the way together.

As part of our diverse tech team, you can architect, code and ship software that makes us an essential part of our customers’ digital lives. Here, you can work alongside talented engineers in an open, supportive, inclusive environment where your voice is valued, and you make your own decisions on what tech to use to solve challenging problems. American Express offers a range of opportunities to work with the latest technologies and encourages you to back the broader engineering community through open source. And because we understand the importance of keeping your skills fresh and relevant, we give you dedicated time to invest in your professional development. Find your place in technology on #TeamAmex.

**The Information Security Specialist-Incident Response/ Digital Forensics will**

RESPONSIBILITIES:

+ Conduct host forensics, network forensics, log analysis, and malware triage in support of incident response investigations and partner concerns from junior analysts across Windows, Mac, Linux, and Cloud platforms.

+ Participate in incident response and crisis management activities.

+ Advise leadership on containment, eradication, and recovery strategies during incident response.

+ Fully scope incidents through proper identification of all affected systems and/or accounts.

+ Recognize attacker tactics, techniques, and procedures as well as Indicators of Compromise (IOCs) / Indicators of Attack (IOAs) that can be applied to current and future investigations.

+ Contribute to team projects, process improvement, and development of new capabilities.

+ Curate a world class security operations and incident response team with a relentless focus on innovation and continuous improvement.

+ Assess and develop incident response standard methodologies to help mature the overall security operations of the organization.

+ Make recommendations for improving enterprise risk posture based on individual research and technical expertise.

+ Stay current on industry trends, attack techniques, mitigation techniques, and security technologies.

+ Produce high-quality written and verbal reports, recommendations, and actions.

+ Participate in on-call rotation and provide after-hours support on an as-needed basis

REQUIRED SKILLS/ QUALIFICATIONS:

+ 3 years of experience in information security, incident response, digital forensics and/or incident response consulting.

+ Experience with host, network, and/or memory forensics

+ Experience with various network and/or host-based security tools to detect and respond to security events. (e.g. SIEM, web proxy, intrusion detection/prevention, etc.)

+ Theoretical and practical security knowledge and investigation experience with Mac, Linux, and Windows operating systems, as well as cloud environments.

+ Theoretical and practical knowledge of Incident Response lifecycles

+ Ability to convey complex technical concepts to audiences with varying levels of technical ability

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

+ Excellent analytical, documentation, and communication skills.

+ Multiple applicable certifications (GSE, GDAT, GCIA, GCIH, GCFA, GNFA, GCFE, GREM, CCSP, CEH, CCISP)

+ Knowledge and investigation experience in a global, multi-cloud environment.

+ Experience in programming and/or scripting languages (Python, PowerShell, Go, etc.)

**Qualifications**

Salary Range: $110,000.00 to $190,000.00 annually bonus benefits

The above represents the expected salary range for this job requisition. Ultimately, in determining your pay, we’ll consider your location, experience, and other job-related factors.

We back our colleagues and their loved ones with benefits and programs that support their holistic well-being. That means we prioritize their physical, financial, and mental health through each stage of life. Benefits include:

+ Competitive base salaries

+ Bonus incentives

+ 6% Company Match on retirement savings plan

+ Free financial coaching and financial well-being support

+ Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits

+ Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need

+ 20 weeks paid parental leave for all parents, regardless of gender, offered for pregnancy, adoption or surrogacy

+ Free access to global on-site wellness centers staffed with nurses and doctors (depending on location)

+ Free and confidential counseling support through our Healthy Minds program

+ Career development and training opportunities

For a full list of Team Amex benefits, visit our Colleague Benefits Site .

American Express is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, disability status, age, or any other status protected by law.

We back our colleagues with the support they need to thrive, professionally and personally. That's why we have Amex Flex, our enterprise working model that provides greater flexibility to colleagues while ensuring we preserve the important aspects of our unique in-person culture. Depending on role and business needs, colleagues will either work onsite, in a hybrid model (combination of in-office and virtual days) or fully virtually.

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**Job:** Security

**Primary Location:** US-Arizona-Phoenix

**Schedule** Full-time

**Req ID:** 24017619