Incident Manager - Public Sector

Come join the company that is reinventing cloud security and empowering businesses to thrive in the cloud. As the fastest-growing startup ever, Wiz is on a mission to help organizations secure cloud environments that will accelerate their businesses. Trusted by security teams all over the world, we have a proven track record of success and a culture that values world-class talent.

Our Wizards from over 20 countries work together to protect the infrastructure of our hundreds of customers, including over 50% of the Fortune 100, who trust us to scan and secure over 230 billion files daily. We’re the leading player in a massive and growing market, but it’s still early enough for you to make a significant impact. At Wiz, you’ll have the freedom to think creatively, dream big, and use your full range of skills to contribute to our record growth. Come join our team and help us create secure cloud environments that allow the best companies to move faster.

SUMMARY

We are looking for an Incident Manager to spearhead incident management operations for Wiz’s Federal and Sovereign Cloud environments. You will lead the program development, strategic response, and technical recovery efforts for high-impact events, ensuring every incident is met with a structured, compliant, and decisive resolution.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Serve as the lead incident coordinator for high-severity events, activating playbooks, declaring incident severity, and coordinating with functional leads to drive a structured response.

• Define, operationalize, and document the end-to-end incident response lifecycle that aligns to FedRAMP High, IL5, and NIST 800-53 requirements.

• Drive readiness activities by designing and facilitating cross-functional tabletop exercises, hands-on simulations exercises, incident response team training, and review of playbooks to validate response protocols.

• Facilitate Root Cause Analysis by leading post-incident reviews using structured methodologies and documentation to separate root causes from contributing factors and drive business-wide corrective actions to closure.

• Serve as the primary liaison between technical and business units by translating incident details into business impact assessments that drive informed decision-making for legal, compliance, and operational teams.

• Bridge technical and operational responses by building communication paths between engineering, operations, legal, compliance, and customer facing teams to translate complex incidents into actionable updates for leadership.

• Establish centralized reporting, dashboards, and KPIs to monitor response efficiency, trend analysis, and program maturity.

• Manage and optimize incident response tools like ServiceNow, PagerDuty, and Jira to ensure.

WHAT YOU’LL BRING

• 7+ years of experience leading crisis management and incident response programs in FedRAMP High, IL5, or NIST 800-53 environments.

• Direct experience in managing and leading major incidents

• Direct experience working cloud environments, AWS required (other clouds a plus)

• Experience working with cloud native technologies like containers and container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes.

• Ability to interpret metrics and logs in observability and security event management tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, DataDog, Splunk, etc.

• Experience with incident management platforms such as PagerDuty, ServiceNow, or Jira, including experience building automated notification trees and dashboards.

• Strategic thinking and a risk focused mindset on reliability improvements

• Ability to identify systemic gaps that feed back into program design and operations teams

• Strong writing and documentation skills to effectively communicate with both technical and business audiences

• Ability to maintain composure and exercise sound judgement while navigating high-stake decision making during complex and ambiguous incidents

Candidates must meet EAR part 772 and ITAR 120.15 definition of a U.S. person (Any individual who is granted U.S. citizenship; or any individual who is granted U.S. permanent residence (green card holder); or any individual who is granted status as a “protected person”) and that they reside in the contiguous United States.

Benefits

Wiz offers a competitive package of benefits and programs to support you and your family. Below provides a description of our current benefits for employees in the US. Specific benefits may vary by location.

Health & Welfare Benefits

• Medical, dental and vision insurance

• Home Office Setup reimbursement

• Flexible Spending Accounts

• Monthly Connectivity reimbursement

• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Financial Benefits

• Short- and Long-term Disability Insurance

• Life & Accident Insurance

• 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan (with employer match)

Time Off

• Flexible paid time off + 11 paid holidays

• Paid leave programs, including parental, pregnancy health, medical and bereavement leave

Compensation

Starting compensation will be determined based on various factors, including but not limited to, the candidate's job-related experience, skills and geographic location. Your Talent Partner can share more about the specific salary range during the hiring process.

This role is eligible to participate in Wiz’s equity plan and may also include incentive compensation.

The annual base salary range for this full-time position is listed below.

US Base Pay Range
$142,500—$197,000 USD

Applicants must have the legal right to work in the country where the position is based, without the need for visa sponsorship. This role does not offer visa sponsorship.

Wiz is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, reproductive health decisions, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, genetic information, political views or activity, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.

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