Senior Incident Response Analyst, Global Security Organization

Senior Incident Response Analyst, Global Security Organization

About TikTok
TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video. At TikTok, our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. TikTok's global headquarters are in Los Angeles and Singapore, and its offices include New York, London, Dublin, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Jakarta, Seoul, and Tokyo.

Why Join Us
Creation is the core of TikTok's purpose. Our products are built to help imaginations thrive. This is doubly true of the teams that make our innovations possible. Together, we inspire creativity and enrich life - a mission we aim towards achieving every day. To us, every challenge, no matter how ambiguous, is an opportunity; to learn, to innovate, and to grow as one team. Status quo? Never. Courage? Always. At TikTok, we create together and grow together. That's how we drive impact-for ourselves, our company, and the users we serve. Join us.

The Global Security Organization provides industry-leading cyber-security and business protection services to TikTok globally. Our organization employs four principles that guide our strategic and tactical operations. Firstly, we Champion Transparency & Trust by leading the charge in organizational transparency, prioritizing customer trust, and placing user needs first. Secondly, we aim to maintain Best in Class Global Security by proactively identifying and reducing risks while enabling innovative product development. We constantly work towards a sustainable world-class security capability. Thirdly, we strive to be a Business Catalyst & Enabler by embodying the DNA of technical innovation and ensuring our Global Security operations are fast and agile. Finally, we Drive Empowered & Risk-Informed Decision Making by providing our leaders with the necessary information to make agile decisions based on risk.

As a Senior Incident Response Analyst, you will be a member of TikTok’s enterprise Threat Detection and Response team. The Threat Detection and Response team is responsible for 24x7 monitoring of multiple security-related information sources to manage incidents related to cyber, privacy, and data protection for TikTok data, infrastructure, and products. The Threat Detection and Response team will regularly survey the TikTok networks for signs of a breach, malware, or unauthorized access. Additionally, the Threat Detection and Response team is responsible for developing and maintaining incident response plans, playbooks and procedures. Finally, the Threat Detection and Response team is responsible for detection engineering and security logging and analytics.

Responsibilities

1. You will often perform the duties of an Incident Commander. Constant participation and situational leadership in incident response activities.
2. Triage security alarms and conduct technical analysis and assessments of security-related incidents, including malware analysis, packet-level analysis, and system-level forensic analysis.
3. Conduct analysis of network traffic and output from various network-centric technologies.
4. Identify major threats that target TikTok users or impact company infrastructure.
5. Develop incident response plans and procedures, including identification, remediation, containment, and eradication procedures.
6. Provide input to cross-functional teams to ensure that log sources meet analyst needs and that sensors and collection devices are placed strategically throughout the environment.
7. Identify any gaps in our security or monitoring coverage and work with the appropriate teams to close these gaps.
8. Work with crisis management to enable crisis procedures and execute when necessary.
9. Gather and condense technical details of critical incidents to executive management and provide immediate containment and eradication recommendations.
10. Support the onboarding of new products, data, processes, or tools by identifying requirements and by integrating them into current operational processes.
11. Mentor and guide other Threat Detection and Response analysts to grow their incident response analysis skills.
12. Ability to think outside-the-box and embrace non-standard, internally developed, tooling and data analysis tools.
13. This position is part of a 24x7x365 operation and may require shift and/or on-call work.