SecOps Expert

The world of digital assets is accelerating in speed, magnitude, and complexity, opening the door to new ways for leveraging the blockchain. Fireblocks’ platform and network provide the simplest and most secure way for companies to work with digital assets and it trusted by some of the largest financial institutions, banks, globally-recognized brands, and Web3 companies in the world, including BNY Mellon, BNP Paribas, ANZ Bank, Revolut, and thousands more. 

The Security & Information team is looking for someone who is passionate about technology and has a roll-up-their-sleeves mentality to join our global team. You’ll play a crucial role in enhancing our security infrastructure, improving networking, ensuring scalability, and maintaining strong security as we continue to grow. If you want to be an industry leader, on a team experiencing hyper-growth, look no further! 

What you’ll do 

As a SecOps Expert, you’ll be responsible for securing and protecting our infrastructure, including managing and administering various security-related technologies, platforms, and tools. You'll also provide security expertise and guidance to the team on various security-related matters, including translating product usage data into actionable advice for security.

You’ll build your own solutions to quickly identify breach attempts, contain and eradicate threats, streamline our security incident response processes, continuously test our controls, and help the business make informed decisions based on threat intelligence.

You’ll collaborate with other Business and technical teams during ongoing True Positive incidents and participate in war room calls.

This is a fast-paced environment where you’ll have the opportunity to manage multiple projects at once.

Responsibilities 

• Investigate alerts, triage, deep dive, and come up with proper action items and remediation plans. 
• Coordinate investigation, containment, and other response activities with business stakeholders and groups.
• Develop incident analysis and findings reports for management, including gap identification and recommendations for improvement.
• Recommend or develop new detection logic and tune existing sensors/security controls.
• Work with security solutions owners to assess existing security solution's ability to detect/mitigate the abovementioned TTPs.
• Creating custom SIEM queries to support the monitoring and detection of advanced TTPs against the company network. 
• Translating product usage data into actionable advice for security.
• Provide business guidelines in a regular cadence with Security and technical Stakeholders in collaboration with the Account Team, including Product, DevOps, Support, etc.

Minimum Requirements 

• 5+ years experience working in an Incident Response/Cyber Security Operations Center (in-house or outsourced), creating, escalating, and managing security incidents and creating incident reports.
• Managing low to high-risk cybersecurity events, alerts, and incidents, event monitoring and analysis, and responding to and escalating IT/DevOps security events and threats and vulnerabilities.
• Collaborating with stakeholders to drive incident response and remediation.
• Development of common runbooks for most frequent or critical incident types.
• 3+ years of working with security tools such as SIEM, Analytics & Intelligence, Intrusion Detection, Malware detection, Data Loss Protection, and Identity & Access Management
• Solid understanding of system and security controls on at least two OSs (Windows, Linux / Unix, and MacOS (Advantage), including host-based forensics and experience with analyzing OS artifacts.
• Problem solver, an in-depth thinker with a growth mindset.
• Excellent communication skills (both oral and written) and ability to work collaboratively with other teams 
• Perform host-based analysis, artifact analysis, and malware analysis in support of security investigations and incident response (Advantage).
• Understanding of cryptographic algorithms utilized by public blockchain networks and other cryptography-related topics. (Advantage).

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field
• Familiarity with cloud services, Kubernetes, cloud environment architecture, and the major cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure)

For employees hired to work from our NYC HQ, Fireblocks is required by law to include a reasonable estimate of the compensation range for this role. This range is specific to New York City and takes into consideration a wide range of factors that are reviewed when making a hiring decision, such as years of experience, skills, and other business needs.

It is not typical for a candidate to be hired at or near the top of the pay range and each compensation decision is dependent on each individual case. A reasonable base salary range estimate for this position is $148,000 - $185,000. The base salary is one component of the total compensation package, which for some roles may include a target bonus, a very competitive equity grant, and very generous benefits. 

While we believe competitive compensation is a critical aspect of your decision to join us, we do hope you also spend time considering why our mission and culture are right for you. We are creating something transformational here, and we hope you are as excited about the future as we are.

Fireblocks' mission is to enable every business to easily and securely access digital assets and cryptocurrencies. In order to do that, we strongly believe our workforce should be as diverse as our clients, and this is why we embrace diversity and inclusion in all its forms. 

Fireblocks' mission is to enable every business to easily and securely access digital assets and cryptocurrencies. In order to do that, we strongly believe our workforce should be as diverse as our clients, and this is why we embrace diversity and inclusion in all its forms.