Manager, Security Incident Response Operations

Position Overview

Autodesk’s mission is to empower everyone, everywhere to design and make anything. We secure it.

Autodesk’s Security Incident Response department is growing, building a senior team of security analysts in the United States. They participate in a broader security organization, geographically load balanced across the US, EMEA, and India, and lead security investigations across our expansive global footprint.

As a Security Incident Response Manager, you will drive the strategic and operational excellence of our incident response capabilities. You will lead a team of talented security professionals through critical, high-impact investigations. As a recognized Splunk master, you will be responsible for constructing intricate queries to unify data streams from diverse telemetry sources, identifying and tracking IOCs to their root cause. Your experience in building effective data paths from telemetry generating services to SIEM/SOAR systems will empower your team to respond to incidents swiftly and decisively.

Responsibilities

• Team Leadership & Development: Manage and mentor a domestic team of security analysts dedicated to incident detection, response, and remediation. Develop training programs and career development initiatives to grow junior personnel

• Incident Response Oversight: Coordinate and lead the investigation, containment, and resolution of security incidents, ensuring timely responses and accurate root cause analyses

• Splunk Expertise: Leverage your advanced Splunk skills to build and optimize queries that integrate multiple data sources, driving actionable intelligence from complex security events

• Telemetry Integration: Design and implement robust data pipelines, linking telemetry sources to our SIEM/SOAR systems to enhance real-time monitoring and detection capabilities

• Collaboration & Communication: Liaise with cross-functional teams across Autodesk to deliver comprehensive incident reporting and strategic guidance during high-severity incidents

• Continuous Improvement: Proactively research emerging threats, refine incident response procedures, and deploy innovative solutions to elevate our security posture

Minimum Qualifications

• Experience: Minimum of 5+ years in security operations and incident response, including 2+ years in a managerial role. Proven success in leading high-performing, global or 24/7 security operations teams under high-pressure conditions is essential

• Technical Skills: Advanced proficiency with Splunk, with demonstrated expertise in designing and executing intricate queries that integrate and analyze data from diverse sources. A proven track record in optimizing SIEM environments, including automating detection workflows and building effective telemetry pipelines, is highly valued

• Operational Expertise: Extensive experience in telemetry integration and managing the complete incident lifecycle—from initial detection to root cause analysis and remediation. Familiarity with incident response frameworks, threat detection methodologies, and advanced forensics techniques is required to drive continuous improvement and operational excellence. Work closely with our Detections Engineering team to help tune Risk Based alerts post investigation

• Soft Skills: Exceptional leadership, communication, and strategic thinking skills. A successful candidate will be an inspiring mentor capable of cultivating a collaborative team culture, articulating complex security concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, and steering cross-functional initiatives

• Cloud Agnostic: Comprehensive knowledge of cloud security operations across Azure, AWS, and GCP. Experience in configuring and integrating security tools in hybrid or multi-cloud environments is essential to maintain robust security postures across diverse platforms

About Autodesk

Welcome to Autodesk! Amazing things are created every day with our software – from the greenest buildings and cleanest cars to the smartest factories and biggest hit movies. We help innovators turn their ideas into reality, transforming not only how things are made, but what can be made.

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When you’re an Autodesker, you can do meaningful work that helps build a better world designed and made for all. Ready to shape the world and your future? Join us!

Benefits

From health and financial benefits to time away and everyday wellness, we give Autodeskers the best, so they can do their best work. Learn more about our benefits in the U.S. by visiting https://benefits.autodesk.com/

Equal Employment Opportunity

At Autodesk, we're building a diverse workplace and an inclusive culture to give more people the chance to imagine, design, and make a better world. Autodesk is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and considers all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other legally protected characteristic. We also consider for employment all qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with applicable law.

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