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 dedicate more than $1 billion to 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
Our National IT National Incident Response Team (NIRT), a national service provider for the Federal Reserve System (FRS), provides effective 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 FRS efforts to protect its information systems against unauthorized use. NIRT’s Detection Engineering (DE) team has an immediate opening for a cyber professional to join at the Experienced Cybersecurity Analyst level.
NIRT Detection Engineering (DE) team's mission is to collect security-relevant data and facilitate its use through design, engineering, implementation and support of tools to support NIRT's services and objectives and represent NIRT's interests in initiatives within the FRS and Treasury. We focus on ensuring that the NIRT's critical cybersecurity data infrastructure and tooling advance to meet new threats and to evolve within the technological landscape.
As a remote experienced Analyst, you will report to a Detection Engineering Senior Manager and work with teammates and subject matter experts to build and maintain cybersecurity incident detection, data collection, storage, integration and correlation, and support systems in cloud, on-prem, and other customer environments.
What You Will Do
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Design, build and maintain solutions that facilitate and augment the delivery of NIRT’s security monitoring services.
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Partner with National IT, NIRT and other partners to identify, obtain, examine, manipulate, intake, process, deliver and extract data to and from our infrastructure.
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Assist and participate in cybersecurity related projects and tasks.
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Assist with coordination activities of Bank staff and vendor support personnel in resolving platform issues.
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Resolve technical and non-technical issues.
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Identify and make recommendations around process improvements.
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Mentor more junior staff.
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Provide consultation, assistance, and guidance, internally and externally, regarding different aspects of the requirements, technologies and methods of NIRT’s detection ecosystem, infrastructure, and related services.
Qualifications
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3+ years expanding knowledge of information technology and cybersecurity. General knowledge of department/business lines, Reserve Banks, or System operations, procedures and technologies.
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Skills: log analysis using Splunk, Elastic, or similar tools.
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Risk Management: Responsible for understanding and applying risk management discipline in decision-making and contributing to your function’s risk management.
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Decision-making: Works under the direction with infrequent checks; follow established methods and clear-cut policy. Execute tasks per general instructions or established methods.
Other Requirements and Considerations:
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Salary offered will be based on the job responsibilities and the individual’s knowledge, skills, and experience as defined in the job qualifications.
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Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis. Interested candidates are strongly encouraged to apply by January 29, 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.
