Threat Detection and Automation Specialist

At FNZ, our purpose is to make wealth management more accessible, bringing easier, fairer and more inclusive solutions to people worldwide. Here in the Global Cyber & Information Security team, we are on a mission to embed cyber resilience across FNZ, protecting the platforms that support investment solutions for over 20 million people.

We are looking for a Threat Detection and Automation Specialist to work in support of the Cyber Resilience and Operations area of FNZ. This is an exciting opportunity to bolster FNZ’s security defences by helping to mature the growing threat intelligence and threat detection functions at the company. The role would be well suited to a threat detection specialist who is keen to learn more about threat intelligence and be involved in breach simulation activities. The successful candidate will report into the Group Threat Intelligence Manager and gain exposure to a wide range of cybersecurity operations at FNZ across threat intelligence, incident response, vulnerability management, and security engineering. You will learn more about financial-services teams’ operations in a close-knit and friendly environment. You will have existing experience of technical threat intelligence and/or threat detection.

Specific Role Responsibilities

• Maintain an understanding of the cyber threat landscape with a focus on the wealth management sector

• Use an existing detection-as-code pipeline to deploy detection rules into the security monitoring environment

• Help mature the threat intelligence function, specifically focusing on means of automating existing processes across the collection and analysis phases of the intelligence cycle

• Support breach simulation activities in testing existing detection rules and creating new, custom use cases

• Map threat actors tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) to the FNZ control environment

• Ensure indicators are triaged and prioritised in an automated fashion

Experience required

• Hands on experience of threat detection and security monitoring technologies including SIEM and EDR solutions

• Knowledge of use case generation processes in the SIEM – experience with well-known SIEM technologies is highly beneficial

• Experience handling threat intelligence with an understanding of the intelligence cycle

• Good knowledge of the current cyber threat landscape, including relevant threat groups, TTPs, and attack vectors of relevance to financial services

• Particularly strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a proactive approach to identifying and mitigating security risks

• Experience of the MITRE ATT&CK© framework for improving detective and preventative controls

• Past experience working within a SOC, Threat Intelligence, or Security Engineering team with evidence of hands-on technical analysis

About FNZ Culture

Our culture is what drives us. It's at the heart of who we are and everything we do. It's what inspires, excites and moves us forward. Our ambition is to create a culture for growth, one that opens up limitless opportunities for our employees, customers and the wider world. At FNZ we know that great impact is only possible with great teamwork.

That’s why we value the strength and diversity of thought in our global team.

The FNZ Way is the cornerstone of what we do. It is comprised of four values that set the standard for how everyone at FNZ interacts with each other, with our customers, and with all our diverse stakeholders around the world.

Customer obsessed for the long-term

Think big and make an impact

Act now and own it all the way

Challenge, commit and win together

Read more about The FNZ Way and our values: www.fnz.com/culture

About FNZ

FNZ is committed to opening up wealth so that everyone, everywhere can invest in their future on their terms. We know the foundation to do that already exists in the wealth management industry, but complexity holds firms back.

We created wealth’s growth platform to help. We provide a global, end-to-end wealth management platform that integrates modern technology with business and investment operations. All in a regulated financial institution.

We partner with over 650 financial institutions and 12,000 wealth managers, with US$1.5 trillion in assets under administration (AUA).

Together with our customers, we help over 20 million people from all wealth segments to invest in their future.

About FNZ

FNZ is committed to opening up wealth so that everyone, everywhere can invest in their future on their terms. We know the foundation to do that already exists in the wealth management industry, but complexity holds firms back. 

We created wealth’s growth platform to help. We provide a global, end-to-end wealth management platform that integrates modern technology with business and investment operations. All in a regulated financial institution. 

We partner with over 650 financial institutions and 12,000 wealth managers, with US$1.5 trillion in assets under administration (AUA).

Together with our customers, we help over 20 million people from all wealth segments to invest in their future.