Cyber Detection Engineer at Federal Reserve Bank (FRB) in Richmond, Virginia

Job Description:

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 and efficient intrusion detection, incident response, security intelligence, threat assessment, and vulnerability assessment services for the FRS. NIRT’s mission is to play a leading role in FRS efforts to protect its information systems against unauthorized use. NIRT’s Detection Engineering (DE) team has an immediate opening for a motivated cyber professional to join as a Cybersecurity Advisor at the Senior level.

NIRT DE's mission is to collect security-relevant data and facilitate its use through design, engineering, implementation and support of tools and technology to support NIRT's services and objectives as well as represent NIRT's interests in projects and initiatives within the FRS and Treasury. We focus on ensuring that the NIRT's critical Cybersecurity data infrastructure and tooling continuously advance to meet new threats and to evolve within a rapidly changing technological landscape.

As a Senior DE Cybersecurity Advisor, you will develop and drive efforts to research, design, build, maintain, and enhance systems for cybersecurity incident detection, data collection, storage, integration and correlation, and support systems and processes to facilitate NIRT’s various services. The scope of responsibilities includes efforts within the cloud and on-premises, as well as other customer environments.

What You Will Do:

• Partner with National IT, NIRT and other partners to identify, obtain, examine, manipulate, intake, process, deliver and extract data and information to and from our infrastructure.


• Research plan, design, build and maintain solutions that facilitate and augment the delivery of NIRT’s services.


• Assist and participate in cybersecurity related projects and tasks.


• Assist with coordination activities of Bank staff and vendor support personnel in identifying and resolving platform issues.


• Analyze and resolve technical and non-technical issues.


• Proactively identify and make recommendations around process improvements.


• Train and mentor more junior staff.


• Provide consultation, assistance, and guidance, internally and externally, regarding various aspects of the requirements, tools, technologies and methods of 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 an equivalent combination of education and work experience.


• 6+ years (Senior) of combined IT, security, development, and architectural experience with a broad range of exposure to systems analysis and systems administration.


• Strong practical understanding of idiomatic programming in Python. Other languages a plus.


• Experience deploying Amazon Web Services products and platforms. Knowledge of Lambda, API Gateway, EC2, ECS, DynamoDB and related services preferred.


• Experience designing, deploying, and maintaining REST APIs


• Practical experience with microservice architecture


• Experience developing Infrastructure as Code (IaC), expertise in Terraform and Ansible a plus.


• Demonstrated use of software testing and DevSecOps methodologies.


• Able to apply understanding of computer networking and network security in enterprise systems.


• Knowledge of security system design tools, methods, techniques, and best practices.


• Knowledge and/or experience in supporting various operating systems and cloud-based technologies preferred.


• Skill in developing or recommending analytic approaches or solutions to problems and situations for which information is incomplete or for which no precedent exists.


• Skill in reading, interpreting, writing, modifying, and executing simple scripts on Windows and Unix systems; familiarity with automation in cloud environments.


• Excellent customer service skills and demonstrated ability to interact with anticipated audiences in a courteous, service-oriented manner.


• Ability to communicate complex information, concepts, or ideas in a confident and well-organized manner through verbal, written, and/or visual means.


• Ability to design capabilities to find solutions to less common and more complex system problems.


• Ability to apply cybersecurity and privacy principles to organizational requirements.


• Works independently on broad assignments or under general directions as to scope or objectives.

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, 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 hiring range for the Advisor – Cybersecurity – Senior role is $123,600– $169,950 annually.


• 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 October 18, 2024.
  

Full Time / Part Time

Full time

Regular / Temporary

Regular

Job Exempt (Yes / No)

Yes

Job Category

Information Technology

Work Shift

First (United States of America)

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