Cybersecurity Analyst - Experienced

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 Federal Reserve System (FRS) National Incident Response Team (NIRT) has an immediate opening for an Experienced Cybersecurity Analyst (Incident Response) position, reporting to a Senior Manager of Information Security.  The NIRT, a national service provider for the FRS, delivers effective intrusion detection, incident response, forensics, security intelligence, threat assessment, and penetration testing services.

This role will be a combination of SOC analyst (providing triage of potential security events) and incident handler (investigating and responding to actual security incidents).  Over time as your skills grow and you learn our environment our expectation is you will spend more time on incident response and less time on event triage.  You can also expect to develop more specialized skills such computer forensics, phone forensics, malware analysis, and threat hunting on the job and through external training.  **This is a remote opportunity, and you must be willing and able to work 12pm-8pm EST** Additionally, team members share a rotational “on call” rotation to help assist with after-hour emergency incidents.  

What You Will Do:

• Perform security event triage and analysis with knowledge in current security threats and techniques.

• Manage security incidents and conducts incident analysis, containment, protection, mitigation, and recovery activities across the FRS.

• Evaluate incident response workflow processes.

• Analyze all relevant data sources for attack indicators and potential network compromise.

• Respond to different attack vectors such as data exfiltration, DDoS, malware, insider risk, and phishing.

• Develop script and tool to improve the efficiency of incident detection and response processes.

• Lead investigations.

• Identify gaps/opportunities for enhancements to workflows and processes for enhancing the incident response lifecycle.

• Support cross-team projects to help implement cybersecurity improvements.

• Provide subject matter expertise to partners on an as-needed basis.

Qualifications:

• You should have in-depth understanding of a variety of information technologies and information security topics. Specifically, this should include the following:

  • Security platform and technology capabilities; SIEM utilization skills to analyze security events from multiple monitoring and logging sources to identify and confirm suspicious activity.

  • Knowledge of current security threats, techniques, and landscape, and a dedicated approach to research current information security landscape.

  • Practical understanding of IT Infrastructure designs, technologies, products, and services. This should include knowledge of networking protocols, firewall functionality, host and network intrusion detection systems, operating systems, databases, encryption, load balancing, and other technologies.

Discover the Reason Why So Many People Love It Here!

When you join the Richmond Fed, not only will you find a challenging and purposeful career, but you’ll also have access to a wide range of benefits and perks that support your health and wealth, including:

• Great medical benefits

• Pension and 401(k) with employer match

• Paid time off

• Tuition reimbursement

• Employee resource networks

• Paid volunteer leave

• Flexible work options

• Onsite amenities that make working here fun!

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 Experienced Cybersecurity Analyst (Incident Response) position is $87,800 to $120,780 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. For candidates outside Richmond, VA, 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 September 30, 2024.

Full Time / Part Time

Full time

Regular / Temporary

Regular

Job Exempt (Yes / No)

Yes

Job Category

Analytical

Work Shift

Second (United States of America)

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