Senior Manager, Incident Response

Working at AtlassianAtlassians can choose where they work whether in an office, from home, or a combination of the two. That way, Atlassians have more control over supporting their family, personal goals, and other priorities. We can hire people in any country where we have a legal entity.In this role, you'll lead high-impact incident response work in a complex cloud environment and help shape how Atlassian responds to security events at scale. You'll lead or coordinate complex security incidents, bringing structure, urgency, and sound judgment under pressure. You'll partner with Detection, Security Engineering, Product Security, Legal, Crisis Communications, Support, and senior leadership to drive investigation, containment, recovery, and follow-through. You'll directly manage a team of 5-8 in the US region. You'll coach incident responders and senior practitioners, raising the quality of investigations, handoffs, decision-making, and executive communication. You'll improve the incident response system through playbooks, metrics, exercises, post-incident reviews, and better tooling. A key part of the role will be driving the adoption of investigative AI tools and automation that help analysts triage faster, surface relevant signals, reduce toil, and improve consistency without compromising judgment or security rigor.You'll also support regulated and high-trust environments, including work that requires a strong understanding of formal incident handling, reporting expectations, and documented operating procedures.What you'll bringOn day one, we'll expect you to bring a strong mix of incident leadership, operational maturity, and people leadership. You'll have experience directly leading complex, multi-stakeholder security incidents in a SaaS, cloud, or enterprise environment, along with demonstrated success managing and developing senior security engineers, incident responders, and/or technical leads.You'll have strong executive communication skills, including the