Incident Responder

Function

Our Company

We’re Hitachi Vantara, the data foundation trusted by the world’s innovators. Our resilient, high-performance data infrastructure means that customers – from banks to theme parks ­– can focus on achieving the incredible with data.   

If you’ve seen the Las Vegas Sphere, you’ve seen just one example of how we empower businesses to automate, optimize, innovate – and wow their customers. Right now, we’re laying the foundation for our next wave of growth.  We’re looking for people who love being part of a diverse, global team – and who get excited about making a real-world impact with data.

Job description

The Team

The Cyber Defense team is responsible for protecting Hitachi Vantara from cybersecurity threats through continuous monitoring, incident detection, investigation, containment, and recovery activities. Operating within a global Follow-the-Sun model, the team plays a critical role in protecting the organization's systems, data, intellectual property, and business operations from cyberattacks and advanced threats.

We are looking for a highly motivated cybersecurity professional who thrives in a fast-paced environment, enjoys solving complex security challenges, and is passionate about strengthening the organization's cyber resilience.

The Role

Key responsibilities :

• Investigate and respond to complex cybersecurity incidents, including malware, ransomware, phishing, business email compromise, account compromise, insider threats, data exfiltration, and others.
• Perform advanced threat hunting and forensic analysis to identify indicators of compromise and determine incident scope and impact.
• Analyze alerts generated by security monitoring platforms and perform triage, investigation, and escalation activities.
• Coordinate incident response activities with IT, Legal, Privacy, HR, Communications, and business stakeholders.
• Develop and maintain incident response playbooks, procedures, and operational documentation.
• Identify opportunities to improve detection capabilities and collaborate with engineering teams to implement new monitoring use cases.
• Lead post-incident reviews and lessons learned exercises to strengthen security operations and response effectiveness.
• Mentor and provide technical guidance to junior analysts and incident responders.
• Support a global 24x7 Follow-the-Sun Cyber Defense operating model through effective collaboration and incident handoff processes.

What You’ll Bring

• Experience in cybersecurity incident response, security operations, digital forensics, or threat hunting.
• Strong understanding of attack techniques, threat actor tactics, and incident response methodologies.
• Experience investigating cloud, identity, endpoint, network, and email security incidents.
• Knowledge of security frameworks such as NIST Cybersecurity Framework, NIST 800-61, MITRE ATT&CK, and Cyber Kill Chain.
• Experience with SIEM, EDR/XDR, threat intelligence, and security monitoring technologies.
• Strong analytical, communication, and stakeholder management skills.

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About us

We’re a global team of innovators. Together, we harness engineering excellence and passion for insight to co-create meaningful solutions to complex challenges. We turn organizations into data-driven leaders that can a make positive impact on their industries and society. If you believe that innovation can inspire the future, this is the place to fulfil your purpose and achieve your potential.

Fostering innovation through diverse perspectives

Hitachi is a global company operating across a wide range of industries and regions. One of the things that sets Hitachi apart is the diversity of our business and people, which drives our innovation and growth.

We are committed to building an inclusive culture based on mutual respect and merit-based systems. We believe that when people feel valued, heard, and safe to express themselves, they do their best work.

How we look after you

We help take care of your today and tomorrow with industry-leading benefits, support, and services that look after your holistic health and wellbeing. We’re also champions of life balance and offer flexible arrangements that work for you (role and location dependent). We’re always looking for new ways of working that bring out our best, which leads to unexpected ideas. So here, you’ll experience a sense of belonging, and discover autonomy, freedom, and ownership as you work alongside talented people you enjoy sharing knowledge with.

We’re proud to say we’re an equal opportunity employer and welcome all applicants for employment without attention to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, age, disability status or any other protected characteristic. Should you need reasonable accommodations during the recruitment process, please let us know so that we can do our best to set you up for success.