Seize the opportunity to enhance cybersecurity, utilizing your skills in threat analysis and incident response to protect vital data and systems.

As a Security Operations Senior Associate in the Cyber and Tech Controls line of business, you will play an important role in safeguarding the organization's digital assets and infrastructure by proactively detecting, assessing, and responding to threats, vulnerabilities, and security incidents. Drawing on your knowledge of security principles, practices, and theories, you will collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop a coordinated approach to security and educate employees on best practices, policies, and procedures. Your work will have a direct impact on departmental outcomes, as you plan and ensure progress, identify gaps in information, and conduct analyses to solve complex cybersecurity problems. By utilizing your advanced analytical, technical, and problem-solving skills, you will contribute to the continuous improvement of our cybersecurity posture and help maintain the integrity, confidentiality, and availability of sensitive data and systems.

You will follow best practices like threat recognition, pattern analysis, and surveillance detection to set up high-quality and highly efficient processes to ensure internal security. Also, you will work directly with all Line of Business App Teams, Subject matter experts, Production Management Teams, Product Owners, Senior Technology Management, and Risk and Control functions.

Job responsibilities

• Investigate anomalous network traffic pattern events 
• Develop and maintain DoS and web application firewall policies to protect the Firm, exercising a disciplined approach that minimizes operational risk and maximizes security posture
• Identify, document, and mitigate risk and exposure to emerging threats identified by peer organizations
• Test and validate policy rules/signatures for effectiveness, applicability, etc.
• Profile current and new applications and map to appropriate perimeter security policy 
• Deliver Incident Response Support for DoS, DDoS, and related application attacks
• Provide activity and progress reporting to Cyber Operations management
• Monitor and analyze security infrastructure, contributing to detection and response to threats, vulnerabilities, and incidents to ensure the integrity, confidentiality, and availability of sensitive data and systems
• Conduct in-depth security investigations, analyzing logs, network traffic, and other data sources to identify root causes, assess impact, and gather evidence for response and mitigation actions
• Develop and maintain threat detection and response playbooks, incorporating industry best practices, regulatory requirements, and lessons learned from previous incidents
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop and implement coordinated security strategies, policies, and procedures, while educating employees on best practices

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• 3 years of experience in cybersecurity operations, including threat detection, incident response, and vulnerability management
• Network performance management such as troubleshooting slow server response times and network routing issues
• Web Application Firewall (WAF) administration including custom signature authoring, managing governance of signature deployment, patching, etc., signature efficacy evaluation/tuning, authoring of policy testing regimen
• Web application developer/administration including troubleshooting of web server engines (e.g. connection monitoring, resource utilization, slow response, etc.), web application stacks (e.g. connections from an application to a database server, authentication flows, etc.), elements supporting web applications such as containers, operating systems, micro-service hosting platforms, and impacts of application errors related to data validation or malformed API calls
• TCP/IP network administration / optimization / troubleshooting
• Incident response experience for inbound application attacks with experience working in a structured, formal “Security Operations Center” (SOC) environment and proficiency in identifying internet sources and distinguishing suspicious from benign
• Demonstrated experience in network traffic analysis, log analysis, vulnerability analysis, exploitation, and security investigation techniques to identify and respond to security incidents
• Proficiency in scripting to automate tasks, implement controls, and manipulate data
• Advanced knowledge of security protocols, cryptography, authentication, authorization, and security architecture design principles

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• SIEM including complex search compilation in tools such as Splunk
• Application development such as text manipulation/handling via scripting in Python or Java and regular expressions, creating proof of concepts to exploit zero day vulnerabilities
• Previous 24 X 7 operations experience
• 1 or more years of cybersecurity operations related experience, including threat and risk assessment documentation