Walmart Hiring for Technical Expert, Incident Response, Cybersecurity at Bentonville, AR Full Time

What you’ll do…

About the team

Walmart’s Security Incident Response Team protects and defends the Walmart ecosystem and business operations.

Description

This position is located in Bentonville, AR and Reston, VA. This position is part of the incident management group, which is comprised of the Security Operations Center, Incident Response, Hunt Team, Data Assurance, and Cyber Intelligence.

Applicants are expected to demonstrate a strong understanding of Network, Endpoint, and Cloud Analysis. Applicants should understand the logical progression of responding to active threats across a wide variety of vectors.

Members of this team are expected support the implementation of business solutions by building relationships and partnerships with key stakeholders. This is accomplished by attending business meetings, traveling for conferences, and participating in industry working groups. Strong communication skills are necessity for this position and the successful applicant would need to be able to provide briefings and training, advocate for automation, and meet with stakeholders to understand requirements.

Associate will need to be available for limited on-call requirement, 0-10% domestic and international travel.

What you’ll do…

As an Incident Response Specialist with Walmart, you will be responsible for responding to all cyber-security incidents in one of the world’s largest networks. You will have the opportunity to protect millions of customers, associates, and Walmart’s ever-expanding infrastructure across the globe, as Walmart’s last line of cyber defense.

This role will put you on the cyber-frontlines with some of the world’s top security experts. You will act as a subject-matter expert in various disciplines including network and endpoint forensics, and malware reversing; as well as, managing the incident response lifecycle as your team engages against advanced real-world adversaries.

The Incident Response team is a tight-knit team who work closely together every day. Respect and trust in one another are cornerstones of the Incident Response team’s effectiveness. The team is well-equipped and well-resourced to defend against cyber-threats, and uses the incident response lifecycle to reduce risks across the organization, improve security posture globally, and grow skills and capabilities of the team.

If you have experience defending against threat actors in response to incidents, are self-motivated, curious, and strive to continually improve yourself, your peers, and your team, this is the place for you. We are looking for a team player who thrives on successfully executing the mission, building relationships with others, and contributing to Walmart’s mission of being the most trusted retailer to join us.

You’ll collaborate with a variety of internal business partners to ensure risks are mitigated and appropriate security measure are implemented. You’ll build an understanding of security threats and prevention methodologies by performing analysis on malicious software and providing samples to security product vendors ensuring coverage and detection exists across multiple layers of technology to improve cybersecurity defense posture.

What skills you bring to the table…

• Experience with incident response and handling methodologies.
• Knowledge of incident categories, event time lining, and the NIST CSF.
• Familiarity with the stages of a cyber-attack / MITRE ATT&CK Matrix.
• Recognizing and categorizing types of vulnerabilities and associated attacks.
• Skilled in using security event correlation tools (e.g. SIEM).
• Working knowledge of intrusion detection methodologies and techniques for detecting host and network-based intrusions.
• Knowledge of application and system security threats and vulnerabilities.
• Knowledge of network security architecture concepts including topology, protocols, components, and principles.
• Knowledge of network services and protocols interactions that provide network communications.
• Knowledge of network protocols such as TCP/IP, Domain Name System (DNS), Dynamic Host Configuration (DHCP), and Directory services (LDAP).

You’ll blow us away if you…

• Have hands-on experience defending against active advanced threat-actors
• Can articulate technical details pertaining to threats into consumable content for non-technical audiences
• Have one of the following: GCIH, GCIA, GCFA or related certifications
• Have experience working cross-functionally with other Information security disciplines, i.e., data loss prevention, security operations, cyber-intelligence.
• Have experience working cases through the full Incident Response Lifecycle.

Minimum Qualifications…

Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.

Option 1: Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, engineering, information systems, cybersecurity, or related area and 4 years’ experience in incident response or related area at a technology, retail, or data-driven company.Option 2: 6 years’ experience in incident response or related area at a technology, retail, or data-driven company.

Preferred Qualifications…

Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications.

Certifications in Security+, Network+, GISF, GSEC, CISSP, CCSP, or GCIH, Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Information Systems, Cybersecurity or related area and 2 year’s Exposure of leading/ working on Information Security / Cybersecurity Projects

CISSP – Certified Information Systems Security Professional – Certification
Primary Location…
805 SE Moberly Ln, Bentonville, AR 72716, United States of America