Nscale
AI Infrastructure
SecurityIncidentResponseLead
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“Security Incident Response Lead at Nscale. Skills: Incident response, Digital forensics, Cloud security. Lead end-to-end security incident response. Act as incident commander”
What You'll Achieve.
End-to-end IR effectiveness; High-severity incident coordination; Post-incident review completion; Remediation completion; IR tooling maturity; Automation maturity; Workflow maturity
Industry & Context.
Root cause analysis; Troubleshooting
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
8-12+ years incident response experience, 8-12+ years security operations experience, 8-12+ years digital forensics experience, Proven experience leading high-severity investigations, Hands-on experience with SIEM, Hands-on experience with EDR/XDR, Hands-on experience with detection tooling, Operate as technical leader, Make decisions under pressure, Brief leadership, Coordinate across teams
Nice to Have
Experience in AI infrastructure, Experience in high-performance computing, Experience in large-scale distributed systems, Familiarity with detection engineering, Familiarity with threat hunting, Familiarity with building automation for IR
What You'll Do.
Lead end-to-end security incident response
Act as incident commander
Coordinate cross-functional response efforts
Conduct investigations
Oversee investigations
Apply digital forensics techniques
Drive containment efforts
Drive eradication efforts
Drive recovery efforts
Contribute to threat hunting
Contribute to proactive investigations
Develop incident response playbooks
Maintain incident response playbooks
Develop escalation frameworks
Establish escalation frameworks
Lead post-incident reviews
Lead root cause analysis
Drive long-term remediation actions
Partner to improve alerting
Partner to improve triage
Partner to improve response workflows
Build incident response tooling
Scale incident response tooling
Enhance case management systems
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Cross-functional response efforts; Partner with Detection & Response; Coordinate with Infrastructure; Coordinate with IT; Coordinate with Legal; Coordinate with Compliance
Communication Scope
Brief leadership; Coordinate across teams
Full Job Description
About Nscale Nscale is the GPU cloud engineered for AI. We provide cost-effective, high-performance infrastructure for AI start-ups and large enterprise customers. Nscale enables AI-focused companies to achieve superior results by reducing the complexity of AI development. Our GPU cloud bolsters technical capabilities and directly supports strategic business outcomes, including cost management, rapid innovation, and environmental responsibility. We thrive on a culture of relentless innovation, ownership, and accountability, where every team member takes pride in their work and drives it with excellence and urgency. As an Nscaler, you’ll build trust through openness and transparency, where everyone is inspired to do their best work. If you join our team, you’ll be contributing to building the technology that powers the future. About the Role We’re hiring a Security Incident Response Lead to own and evolve Nscale’s incident response capability in a high-scale, AI-native environment. This is a hands-on leadership role focused on leading investigations across infrastructure, enterprise systems, and security events, while driving effective containment, eradication, and recovery. The role operates at the center of incident coordination and partners closely with Detection & Response as well as cross-functional stakeholders including Infrastructure, IT, Legal, and Compliance. You will help shape how Nscale detects and responds to threats by building the processes, tooling, and operational rigor behind the incident response function. This role is critical to strengthening the organization’s security posture and ensuring high-severity events are managed with speed, clarity, and technical depth. This role will be part of the global CISO organization. What you'll be doing Incident Leadership & Coordination Lead end-to-end security incident response across the organization Act as the incident commander for high-severity events Coordinate cross-functional response efforts with In
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