Senior Information Security Engineer-DFIR

Job description

**About this role:**Wells Fargo is seeking a senior Information security engineer. ****In this role, you will:**** - Lead or participate in computer security incident response activities for moderately complex events - Conduct technical investigation of security related incidents and post incident digital forensics to identify causes and demonstrate future mitigation strategies - Provide security consulting on medium projects for internal clients to ensure conformity with corporate information, security policy, and standards - Design, document, test, maintain, and provide issue resolution recommendations for moderately complex security solutions related to networking, cryptography, cloud, authentication and directory services, email, internet, applications, and endpoint security - Review and correlate security logs - Utilize subject matter knowledge in industry leading security solutions and best practices to implement one or more components of information security such as availability, integrity, confidentiality, risk management, threat identification, modeling, monitoring, incident response, access management, and business continuity - Identify security vulnerabilities and issues, perform risk assessments, and evaluate remediation alternatives - Collaborate and consult with peers, colleagues and managers to resolve issues and achieve goals ****Required Qualifications:**** - 4+ years of Information Security Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education ****Desired Qualifications:**** - at least 3 years of focused professional experience in DFIR, threat hunting, and digital forensics within highly regulated industries (financial services preferred) or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education. - Proven experience leading complex, multiteam, enterprisewide programs in highly regulated organizations. - Strong knowledge of digital forensics and incident response principles, tooling, and frameworks (e.g., case management systems, SOAR, log pipelines, forensics investigations, event triage). - Familiarity with SOC and IR functions, threat intelligence, detection engineering, and crisis management. - Proficiency with program and project management tools and frameworks (e.g., JIRA, Confluence, Smartsheet, MS Project, SAFe, Agile, Waterfall/Hybrid). - Exceptional communication skills, including executivelevel reporting, stakeholder engagement, and risk management. - Ability to operate effectively across highly technical and nontechnical domains, balancing operational needs with engineering constraints and business priorities. ****Job Expectations:**** - Conduct forensic analysis of cyber incidents including hacking, malware attacks, data breaches and insider threats. - Identify, preserve, extract and analyze digital evidence from computers, mobile devices, servers, cloud systems, and other digital storage media. - Use industry-standard forensic tools and techniques (e.g., FTK, EnCase, X-Ways, Autopsy, Volatility, Cellebrite, KAPE, CrowdStrike, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Splunk, Elastic, or similar platforms). - Lead and execute advanced digital forensic investigations involving endpoint, cloud, network, mobile, email, and SaaS platforms to determine root cause, impact, data exposure, and attacker methodology. - Serve as Incident Commander during major security events, coordinating crossfunctional technical teams, legal, compliance, risk, and executive leadership to drive timely containment and eradication actions. - Conduct threat hunting activities leveraging SIEM, EDR, network telemetry, and intelligence sources to proactively identify indicators of compromise (IOCs), anomalous behaviors, and emerging threats targeting the financial sector. - Develop and maintain incident response playbooks and standard operating procedures, ensuring alignment with regulatory requirements, industry frameworks, and evolving threat landscapes.