Senior Security Engineer - SecOps
Mozilla
Hirezar Summary for South African Applicants
This fully remote full time position at Mozilla is open worldwide, so South Africans can apply. As a remote position, you can work from anywhere in South Africa — whether you're based in Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban, or a smaller town.
Job Description
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<p><strong>Why Mozilla?</strong></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Mozilla Corporation is the non-profit-backed technology company that has shaped the internet for the better over the last 25 years. We make pioneering brands like Firefox, the privacy-minded web browser. Now, with more than 225 million people around the world using our products each month, we’re shaping the next 25 years of technology and helping to reclaim an internet built for people, not companies. Our work focuses on diverse areas including AI, social media, security and more. And we’re doing this while never losing our focus on our core mission – to make the internet better for people. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Mozilla Corporation is wholly owned by the non-profit 501(c) Mozilla Foundation. This means we aren’t beholden to any shareholders — only to our mission. Along with thousands of volunteer contributors and collaborators all over the world, Mozillians design, build and distribute </span><strong>open-source</strong><span style="font-weight: 400;"> software that enables people to enjoy the internet on their terms. </span></p>
<p><strong>About this team and role:</strong></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Mozilla is looking for an Incident Responder to monitor and mitigate attacks across Mozilla’s products and services. In this position, you will be a part of a flexible team responsible for handling security incidents. As such, you’ll need to have years of practical security experience and knowledge of the state of the art for detecting and responding to attacks. You’ll be someone Mozillians across the company depend on and trust to respond quickly and effectively in a crunch, with the outstanding communication and collaboration skills needed to work in partnership with diverse stakeholders. Most importantly, you will become a critical member of the team responsible for ensuring the integrity of Mozilla’s products and for keeping Mozilla’s users safe, within a company dedicated to building a more secure internet.</span></p>
<strong>What you'll do:</strong>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Identify and respond to security incidents on a global scale.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Act as an incident commander to drive incidents through the entire response lifecycle.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Design and maintain a portfolio of security alerts, automated actions, playbooks and escalation workflows in support of a high-performing 24/7 incident response capability.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Conduct threat hunting activities, anticipate future threats, and maintain forward-thinking strategies for tools/technology/processes that combat sophisticated threat actors.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Research threat intelligence reports, triage and manage resulting workflows.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Partner with key stakeholders and communicate effectively to maintain a continuously improving feedback loop of preparation, identification, analysis, containment, and post mortem activities.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Participate in on-call rotation.</span></li>
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<strong>What you'll bring:</strong>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">5+ years of demonstrated ability managing security incidents at a global scale and/or experience working in Security Operations Centers (SOC), Product Security Incident Response Teams (PSIRT), and Computer Security Incident Response Teams (CSIRT).</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Expertise with security information and event management (SIEM) systems (eg. ELK, Google BigQuery, Splunk, etc.). Splunk proficiency is preferred.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Expertise with endpoint detection and investigation. Hands-on experience with leading EDR tools and demonstrated ability to leverage endpoint telemetry to find root cause.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Expertise with security orchestration and automation (SOAR) platforms such as Tines or Splunk SOAR.</span></li>
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Tips for South African Applicants
Timezone Advantage
South Africa (SAST, UTC+2) overlaps well with European business hours and has a few hours of overlap with US East Coast. Mention your timezone flexibility in your application.
Salary in Context
Even without a listed salary, international remote roles typically pay 2-3x more than equivalent local positions in South Africa due to the exchange rate advantage.
Application Tips
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