Location: Richmond, VA; East Rutherford, NJ; Dallas, TX; San Francisco, CA; Remote Employment Eligible
The Richmond Fed is the proud home of the Federal Reserve's National IT organization-a nationwide team delivering technology solutions and support across the Federal Reserve System. Many National IT employees are located in Richmond, while others are based across the U.S. at other Federal locations.
When you join our team, you'll become part of a culture that welcomes differences, cares about our communities, and empowers each other to lead from where we are to make things better.
Bring your passion and we'll provide challenging and purposeful careers in a variety of fields, opportunities to grow and a wide range of benefits and perks that support your health and wealth. It's all part of what makes #MyRichmondFed a great place to work!
About the Opportunity
Our National Incident Response Team (NIRT), a national service provider for the Federal Reserve System (FRS), provides effective and efficient national 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 the FRS' efforts to protect its information systems against unauthorized use.
NIRT's Incident Detection and Analysis team has an immediate opening for a motivated intelligence or security professional to join their team as an Incident Response Analyst at the Experienced or Senior level.
As an Incident Response Analyst, you will report to the Senior Manager- Information Security and work on an agile team that effectively detects, analyses, and investigates information security incidents for NIRT's customers across the United States. You will work directly with our customers and use different analytical data mining techniques and automated tactics to help ensure security and integrity of their critical enterprise systems and environments.
What You Will Do
Analyze a large volume of security event data from multiple sources to identify suspicious and malicious activity.
Perform postmortem analysis of traffic flows.
Conduct network forensics.
Conduct follow up analysis throughout the incident life cycle.
Complete projects and tasks associated with security monitoring, detection, and incident response.
Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related discipline.
3+ years (Experienced) / 5+ years (Senior) of experience with security of multiple platforms, operating systems, software, communications, and network protocols; or an equivalent combination of education and work experience.
Hands on experience performing incident detection and analysis in a 24x7 operational environment or educational equivalent.
Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) or Associate (ISC) 2 certification or ability to obtain certification.
Strong security platform and technology capabilities; SIEM utilization skills with the ability to review and analyze security events from multiple monitoring and logging sources to identify and/or confirm suspicious activity.
Ability to analyze large data sets and unstructured data to identifying trends and anomalies indicative of malicious activity, and capability to learn and develop new techniques.
TCP/IP protocol and network/packet analysis knowledge and experience.
Strong knowledge of current security threats, techniques, and landscape; dedicated and self-driven desire to research current information security landscape.
Strong conceptual and practical understanding of IT Infrastructure designs, technologies, products, and services including networking protocols; firewall functionality; host and network intrusion detection systems, operating systems, databases, encryption, load balancing, and other technologies.
Ability to obtain and maintain a National Security Clearance. Ability to obtain a clearance requires US Citizenship.
Discover the Reason Why So Many People Love It Here!
When you join Federal Reserve's National IT organization, 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. The Code is available on the About Us, Careers webpage at www.richmondfed.org .
Sponsorship is not available for this role. Selected candidate is subject to special background check procedures including criminal check, credit check, and drug screen.
By federal law, the candidate hired for this position must able to obtain and maintain a National Security Clearance. Ability to obtain a clearance requires US Citizenship.
Salary offered will be based on the job responsibilities and the individual's knowledge, skills, and experience as defined in the job qualifications/experience.
Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis. Interested candidates are strongly encouraged to apply by February 1, 2021.
The Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond provides equal opportunity to all individuals without regard to race, sex, color, religion, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, or genetic information.
