Onsite Senior Incident Response Engineer – Purple Team

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About the role

  • Senior Incident Response Engineer at Walmart focusing on security threat campaigns to enhance detection and response capabilities. Collaborating with SOC and engineering teams to improve security posture.

Responsibilities

  • The Senior Incident Response Engineer (Purple Team) will operate within a purple-team driven program, focused on assumed‑breach and post‑access adversary activity to strengthen detection and response capabilities.
  • This role leads threat-actor driven campaigns that measure real‑world defensive effectiveness and drive continuous improvement across production environments.
  • Working closely with SOC, Detection Engineering, and risk stakeholders, the engineer translates campaign outcomes into actionable enhancements, validates remediation through retesting, and helps mature response processes.
  • The role also collaborates with peers and advances scalable, measurable security practices aligned with organizational and industry standards.

Requirements

  • 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.
  • 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 Years' Exposure of leading/ working on Information Security / Cyber Security Projects.
  • Knowledge of accessibility best practices and implementing Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 AA standards.

Benefits

  • Health benefits include medical, vision and dental coverage.
  • Financial benefits include 401(k), stock purchase and company-paid life insurance.
  • Paid time off benefits include PTO (including sick leave), parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, and voting.
  • Other benefits include short-term and long-term disability, company discounts, Military Leave Pay, adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, and more.
  • Live Better U is a Walmart-paid education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates in Walmart and Sam's Club facilities.

Job title

Senior Incident Response Engineer – Purple Team

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

$108,000 - $216,000 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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