Senior Incident Response Engineer

Position Summary...

What you'll do...

About Team :

At Walmart, we prioritize innovation and data security. Our team is dedicated to maintaining a secure operating environment and preserving the trust of our customers, associates, and stakeholders. We combine a range of services and expertise to prevent fraud, detect threats, and manage digital risk and access. Our focus is on mitigating attack risks, securing cloud transformation, and fostering a culture of security and reliability within our team

What you'll do :

Supports incident response solutions by assisting team members in gathering requirements to support implementations; evaluating supplier products and services; researching information about new technologies; reviewing and compiling system documentation; participating in solution reviews; and implementing improvements to products, alerts, and monitors.

Supports incident response efforts by adhering, improving and developing newly defined operating procedures associated with the identification, containment, eradication, and recovery of impacted resources, as well as the procedures outlining digital and physical data handling; collaborating with interorganizational and intraorganizational cybersecurity personnel; reporting on incident response actions, including written and oral presentations; participating in, acting as point of contact for, and collecting and providing feedback on, proofs of concept during product and service evaluations; participating in team on-call pager rotation; and serving as escalation point for cybersecurity incidents.

Analyzes and records incident issues by documenting all actions taken during the incident response life cycle; reviewing, preparing for distribution, and submitting findings and collected data to Incident Response team members and leadership, as well as internal Legal, Human Resources and / or Global Investigations teams; and refraining from disclosing sensitive data or incident details with individuals outside of the appropriate teams and communications plan.

Builds understanding of threats by performing analysis on malicious so ware and providing samples to security product vendors to ensure coverage / detection exists across multiple layers of technology.

Demonstrates up-to-date expertise and apply this to the development, execution, and improvement of action plans by providing expert advice and guidance to others in the application of information and best practices; supporting and aligning efforts to meet customer and business needs; and building commitment for perspectives and rationales.

Provides and supports the implementation of business solutions by building relationships and partnerships with key stakeholders; identifying business needs; determining and carrying out necessary processes and practices; monitoring progress and results; recognizing and capitalizing on improvement opportunities; and adapting to competing demands, organizational changes, and new responsibilities.

Models compliance with company policies and procedures and supports company mission, values, and standards of ethics and integrity by incorporating these into the development and implementation of business plans; using the Open Door Policy; and demonstrating and assisting others with how to apply these in executing business processes and practices.

What you'll bring :

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Technology, Engineering, Computer Information Systems, or related field with 7-10 years' experience in information technology or related field
• Proven Incident Handlings experience working with datasets, finding insights, and telling stories using data.
• Experience reviewing and building standard operating procedures and processes.
• Able to communicate clearly across all mediums.
• Experience with information technology and / or cybersecurity along with a security mindset.
• Have experience working cross-functionally across teams.
• Self-motivated, able to raise innovative ideas, and possess a heightened sense of urgency.
• Critical thinking skills and ability to troubleshoot problems or issues to understand root causes.
• Expertise in carrying out investigations on Unix / Linux OS flavors.
• Hands on experienced required on tools like EDR, SIEM, (On Prem and Cloud) - preferably good to have Azure Sentinel and Google Chronicle, SOAR, Email Security, Incident Management, Firewall, IPS, Correlation skills, Use cases development and deployment.
• Well versed with People Process and Technologies in area of Cybersecurity.
• Analysis and investigations skills like Malware analysis, Phishing Email Analysis, Network, Endpoint, Windows and Linux Operating Systems knowledge and hands-on experience on investigations.
• Good to have industry level certification like CIH, CompTIA Certifications, CEH and others as SANS as appropriate
• Experience working with global teams.
• Good to have familiarity with AI-powered cybersecurity platforms for automated triage, risk scoring, and incident enrichment (e.g., AI-enhanced SIEM or SOAR tools).
• Ability to interpret and explain the decisions made by ML models to non-technical stakeholders, including the inherent limitations and biases.
• Understanding of adversarial ML, model evasion, and defense robustness in cybersecurity applications.
• Hands-on experience integrating ML algorithms into security pipelines for real-time response and detection use cases

About Walmart Global Tech

Imagine working in an environment where one line of code can make life easier for hundreds of millions of people. That's what we do at Walmart Global Tech. We're a team of software engineers, data scientists, cybersecurity expert's and service professionals within the world's leading retailer who make an epic impact and are at the forefront of the next retail disruption. People are why we innovate, and people power our innovations. We are people-led and tech-empowered. We train our team in the skillsets of the future and bring in experts like you to help us grow. We have roles for those chasing their first opportunity as well as those looking for the opportunity that will define their career. Here, you can kickstart a great career in tech, gain new skills and experience for virtually every industry, or leverage your expertise to innovate at scale, impact millions and reimagine the future of retail.

Flexible, hybrid work

We use a hybrid way of working with primary in office presence coupled with an optimal mix of virtual presence. We use our campuses to collaborate and be together in person, as business needs require and for development and networking opportunities. This approach helps us make quicker decisions, remove location barriers across our global team, be more flexible in our personal lives.

Benefits

Beyond our great compensation package, you can receive incentive awards for your performance. Other great perks include a host of best-in-class benefits maternity and parental leave, PTO, health benefits, and much more.

Equal Opportunity Employer :

Walmart, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer – By Choice. We believe we are best equipped to help our associates, customers and the communities we serve live better when we really know them. That means understanding, respecting and valuing diversity- unique styles, experiences, identities, ideas and opinions – while being inclusive of all people.

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 3

years' experience in incident response or related area at a technology, retail, or data-driven company. Option 2 : 5 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 1 Yrs. Exposure of leading / working on Information Security / CyberSecurity Projects.

Primary Location...

G, 1, 3, 4, 5 Floor, Building 11, Sez, Cessna Business Park, Kadubeesanahalli Village, Varthur Hobli , India R-2317100

Skills Required

Email Security, SOAR, Ips, Firewall, EDR, Incident Management, Siem, Incident Handling, Malware Analysis