Senior Security Engineer - Detection Engineering

Company

Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond

When you join the Federal Reserve—the nation's central bank—you’ll play a key role, collaborating with leading tech professionals to strengthen and protect our economic, financial and payments systems. We invest in contemporary and emerging technology each year to support the Federal Reserve and our economy, and we’re building a dynamic and diverse team for our future.

Bring your passion and expertise, and we’ll provide the opportunities that will challenge you and propel your growth—along with a wide range of benefits and perks that support your health, wealth, and life. In addition to competitive compensation, we offer a comprehensive benefits package that includes tuition assistance, generous paid time off, top-notch health care benefits, child and family care leave, professional development opportunities, a 401(k) match, pension, and more. All brought together in a flexible work environment where you can truly find balance.

About the Opportunity

The National Incident Response Team (NIRT), a national service provider for the Federal Reserve System (FRS), provides effective national intrusion detection, incident response, security intelligence, threat assessment, and vulnerability assessment services for the FRS. NIRT’s mission is to play an important role in the FRS’ efforts to protect its information systems against unauthorized use.

NIRT’s Detection Engineering (DE) team has an immediate remote opening for a cyber professional to join as a Cybersecurity Analyst at the Senior level, reporting to a Senior Detection Engineering Manager.

The mission of NIRT's DE team, is to gather security-centric data and facilitate its use through the design, engineering, implementation and support of technology, to support NIRT's services and goals and represent NIRT's interests in projects within the FRS and Treasury. We focus on ensuring that the capabilities of NIRT's critical infrastructure remains relevant, and that it is enhanced and evolved to meet new threats and evolving technological landscape.

We are looking for someone to lead projects concerning researching, designing, and creating detection processes and capabilities, with a focus on SIEM, IaC, and DevOps. As an important member of our team, you will collaborate on efforts within both the cloud and on-premise environments and other customer specific settings.

What You Will Do

• Partner with National IT, NIRT and other partners to provide mission-critical cyber detection and incident response capabilities. 

• Research and develop solutions that facilitate and enhance the delivery of NIRT’s services. 

• Collaborate with teams to ensure seamless integration of services.

• Participate in cybersecurity related projects and tasks.

• Coordinate activities of Bank staff and vendor support personnel in resolving platform issues.

• Stay informed about industry trends and advancements to inform system enhancements.

• Identify and make recommendations around process improvements.

• Provide consultation, assistance, and guidance, internally and externally, regarding different aspects of the requirements, technologies and methods regarding NIRT’s detection ecosystem infrastructure, and related services.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree or higher in Computer Science, Information Systems, Computer Engineering, Cybersecurity, Systems Analysis, or a domain related field; or equivalent combination of education and work experience.

• 5+ years of combined IT, security, with a broad range of exposure to systems analysis, application development, systems administration.

• Experience as a power user or administrator of a SIEM platform.

• Experience with cloud environments with a strong preference for AWS and Azure.

• Experience with automation and DevOps practices is preferred- including Infrastructure-as-Code, code testing tools, CI/CD, configuration management/application deployment automation which use languages such as: Python, Terraform, Ansible, Java, Salt, Chef, or Puppet.

Other Requirements and Considerations:

• Candidates should review the Bank’s Employee Code of Conduct to ensure compliance with conflict of interest rules and personal investment restrictions.

• If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please notify rich.recruitment@rich.frb.org.

• Employees who work at and/or visit another Federal Reserve entity or outside business as part of their job duties are required to comply with any onsite safety and health protocols of those organizations (including, but not limited to, requirements to vaccinate or test, mask, social distance, etc.).

• Sponsorship is not available for this role. The selected candidate will be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information. Eligibility for this specific position requires U.S. Citizenship.

• The national hiring range for the Senior Security Engineer- Detection Engineering is $107,100-$147,290 annually. For candidates in certain markets (Boston, MA; Chicago, IL; Los Angeles, CA; New York City Metro Area, Philadelphia, PA; San Francisco, CA; Seattle, WA), the listed hiring and salary ranges may be adjusted based on your geographic location.  

• Salary offered will be based on the job responsibilities and the individual’s knowledge, skills, and experience as defined in the job qualifications.

• Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis. Interested candidates are strongly encouraged to apply by July 3, 2024.  

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Full Time / Part Time

Full time

Regular / Temporary

Regular

Job Exempt (Yes / No)

Yes

Job Category

Analytical

Work Shift

First (United States of America)

The Federal Reserve Banks believe that diversity and inclusion among our employees is critical to our success as an organization, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. The Federal Reserve Banks are committed to equal employment opportunity for employees and job applicants in compliance with applicable law and to an environment where employees are valued for their differences.

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