Hiring: Senior Engineering Manager, Incident Response Company: Atlassian Location: Austin, TX Job Posted Time: 2026-09-09 17:58:32 Employment Type: Full-Time Target Skills & Keywords: Incident Response, Incident Command, Security Operations, Cloud Security, SaaS, AI Automation, Detection & Response, Log Analysis, Executive Communication, Team Leadership, FedRAMP, Regulated Environments Experience: - Directly leading complex, multi-stakeholder security incidents in a SaaS, cloud, or enterprise environment - Managing and developing senior security engineers, incident responders, and/or technical leads - Improving incident response programs through metrics, retrospectives, process design, readiness exercises, and cross-team influence - Hands-on familiarity with investigation workflows, detection and response tooling, log analysis, and operational coordination across globally distributed teams - Deploying investigative AI tools and automation in security operations or incident response environments - Serving as an incident commander or major incident manager for high-severity cyber incidents (preferred) - Supporting regulated environments or formal incident reporting obligations, including government or FedRAMP-adjacent contexts (preferred) - Building or scaling follow-the-sun incident response models across regions (preferred) Required Skills: - Leading or coordinating complex security incidents with structure, urgency, and sound judgment under pressure - Partnering with Detection, Security Engineering, Product Security, Legal, Crisis Communications, Support, and senior leadership to drive investigation, containment, recovery, and follow-through - Coaching incident responders and senior practitioners to raise the quality of investigations, handoffs, decision-making, and executive communication - Improving incident response systems through playbooks, metrics, exercises, post-incident reviews, and better tooling - Driving adoption of investigative AI tools and automation to help analysts triage faster, surface relevant signals, reduce toil, and improve consistency - Strong executive communication skills, including translating incomplete technical information into clear decisions, risks, and next steps - Strong systems thinking: connecting incidents to broader improvements in telemetry, detection logic, escalation paths, tooling, and operating models - Calm, structured decision-making in ambiguous, high-pressure situations Qualifications: - Proven experience leading high-impact incident response work in a complex cloud environment - Demonstrated success managing a team of 5-8 security professionals - Strong mix of incident leadership, operational maturity, and people leadership - Experience supporting regulated and high-trust environments with formal incident handling, reporting expectations, and documented operating procedures Compensation: Not specified in the provided job text. Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don’t miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!