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US Security Incident Response Team (SIRT) Manager
AppleCupertino, California, United States$176,600 - $313,50010+ years
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Apple is seeking an exceptional leader to helm our world-class Security Incident Response Team (SIRT) in the US. You'll operate across the entire organization; driving incident response initiatives, aligning with leadership, partnering with engineers, and coordinating with third parties. This role owns the growth, maturity, and day-to-day operations of the US team that leads Apple's response to its most critical security incidents.
This is a hands-on leadership role in a fast-paced, high-stakes environment. You will lead the US SIRT team in identifying, managing, and responding to security threats facing Apple. Together with your team, you'll continue to mature and evolve an incident response program built to protect Apple today, and scale with the challenges of tomorrow.
The ideal candidate is a seasoned, highly motivated leader who thrives on influence, embraces accountability, and is passionate about championing a strong security culture across the organization.
- 10+ years of technical, hands-on experience in Information Security with a strong focus on Incident Response
- Strong cross-functional collaboration skills with a proven ability to lead and align multi-disciplinary teams
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to articulate technical risk and business impact to partners across legal, business, and executive levels
- Deep expertise across Incident Response, Compliance, Threat Modeling, Purple Teaming, and Risk Mitigation
- Exceptional analytical and investigative capabilities, including hands-on experience leading root cause analysis efforts
- Solid foundation in Computer Science principles, with broad knowledge across computer networks, systems, and applications
- B.S. in Computer Science, Engineering, equivalent degree, or relevant work experience
- SIRT is an on-call team and this role will include night, weekend, early morning and holiday support
- Hands-on experience leveraging AI and large language models (LLMs) to accelerate and automate incident response workflows, including triage, investigation, and reporting
- Leadership experience with demonstrated experience building, scaling, and leading high-performing information security teams