Senior Incident Response Specialist, Bangkok

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About Agoda

Agoda is an online travel booking platform for accommodations, flights, and more. We build and deploy cutting-edge technology that connects travelers with a global network of 4.7M hotels and holiday properties worldwide, plus flights, activities, and more. Based in Asia and part of Booking Holdings, our 7,100+ employees representing 95+ nationalities in 27 markets foster a work environment rich in diversity, creativity, and collaboration.

We innovate through a culture of experimentation and ownership, enhancing the ability for our customers to experience the world.

Our Purpose
- Bridging the World Through Travel

We believe travel allows people to enjoy, learn and experience more of the amazing world we live in. It brings individuals and cultures closer together, fostering empathy, understanding and happiness.

We are a skillful, driven and diverse team from across the globe, united by a passion to make an impact. Harnessing our innovative technologies and strong partnerships, we aim to make travel easy and rewarding for everyone.

Get to Know our Team

The Security Department oversees security, compliance, GRC, and security operations for all Agoda. We are vigilant in ensuring there is no breach or vulnerability threatening our company or endangering our employees in order to keep Agoda safe and protected. This would be a great challenge for those who want to work with the best technology in a dynamic and advanced environment.

The Opportunity

We are looking for a highly motivated and self-driven Incident Response Specialist, someone who can rapidly address security incidents and threats as they appear with the ability to strategize and lead Incident engagements with all staffing levels. On the ground level, your job is to monitor the threats targeting Agoda and keeping attacks from occurring and/or prevent them from getting worse.

In This Role, You'll Get to:

• Perform end-to-end handling of all critical, high and medium cyber security incidents at Agoda.
• Drafting incident reports & communicating incident summaries to senior leadership, end users, legal teams
• Write playbooks for different types of cyber security incidents and use automation to reduce MTTR time.
• Automating repetitive tasks of incident response using automation platforms and/or programming
• Optimizing existing security controls to finetune the alerts & reduce false positives
• Gather open source and commercial threat intelligence and perform hunting across the enterprise for undetected threats.
• Support the legal & regulatory teams as a technical SME for cyber incidents with regulatory requirements
• Evaluate new technologies and Driving POCs for new security products

Please note: You will be expected to leverage your coding skills to develop and automate solutions that enhance our Detection and Response capabilities. Proficiency in understanding and writing code is essential, as you will play a key role in building and maintaining response automation tools

What you'll Need to Succeed:

• 5+ years experience in Cyber Security specifically in Incident Response field and working with 24/7 SOC teams
• Must have strong understand of NIST, CSF, MITRE and other cyber security framework
• Skilled in programming or scripting skills (e.g., Python or C++) are required for automating incident response tasks and developing custom security tools.
• Ability to write and tune detection rules in different security platforms
• Must have hands-on knowledge of dealing with major security incidents
• Ability to automate using automation platforms or programming skills is a must
• Malware analysis experience and digital forensics experience is a plus
• Certification of Cyber Security, Forensic and Incident Response is a plus (CISSP, ECSA, GISP, GCIH, GCFE, GCFA)
• We need you to be flexible, fast moving, adaptable and down-to-earth and an expert in multi-tasking.
• Very good communication skills in English (both oral and written)
• Relocation package is provided in case you prefer to relocate to Bangkok, Thailand. Our…