FedNow Senior Cyber Security Engineer

Company
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
Federal Reserve Financial Services (FRFS) delivers a suite of payments services to financial institutions via FedLine® Solutions, Fedwire® Funds and Securities, the National Settlement Service (NSS), FedCash®1, FedACH®, Check Services, and the FedNow® Service. FRFS operates as a fully integrated organization with groups dedicated to customer experience, operations, technology, product and customer/industry management, enterprise services, payments system improvement, and one focused on the ongoing growth and development of the FedNow instant payment service. Our strategy defines our future direction, seeking to offer a fully integrated product suite that provides speed, resilience, and choice in meeting the payments needs of FRFS customers across the United States. Through our Enterprise structure, we strive to meet the needs of the marketplace for new products and services with speed and agility, seek to provide a robust and unified customer experience, and work to create career growth opportunities for FRFS staff.
The FRFS Enterprise operates with a customer-first mindset, comprised of team members seeking to do the best work of their careers in pursuit of our important central bank mission.
This job is eligible for remote work within the United States. Proximity to one of our 12 Districts is highly preferred. You may be required to attend in-person meetings and other events as business needs dictate. Remote work flexibility is contingent upon local district approval and business needs.
This position is responsible for helping to ensure the security and integrity of the FedNow organization across people, operations, and technology. This individual will directly support security engineering and operations. The individual will also be expected to provide cybersecurity expertise both through consultation and hands-on technical activities.
What will be expected of you

• Develop code to automate security configuration management.

• Build, test, and deploy cybersecurity relevant technical solutions.

• Support security investigations through data analysis and information gathering.

• Build tooling to conduct pro-active hunting for malicious activity impacting FedNow holistically.

• Represent a technologists point of view in selecting tooling and solutions.

• Participate in agile activities with geographically dispersed agile delivery teams.

• Proven ability to collaborate, build relationships and influence direct team members in a matrix-management environment.

• Provide informal guidance, direction and/or oversight to less experienced colleagues.

• Actively seekto remove barriers and improve security across the program.

• Document technical solutions developed and the supporting processes.

• Strong interest in current security threats, techniques, and landscape, as well as a dedicated and self-driven desire to research current information security landscape.

• Identify and address the root causes of issues, focusing on solving problem categories rather than individual instances. Engage early and comprehensively.

Expertise you would bring

• Lead and execute cyber incident response activities, including detection, analysis, containment, eradication, and recovery.

• Ability to program or script in Bash, Python, Java, or Go.

• Ability to utilize tools like CI/CD Automation similar to TravisCI, CircleCI, Github Action, Gitlab Pipelinesor AWS CodeDeploy.

• Expertise with Cloud IAM Configuration, Container Orchestration, and Log Management.

• Ability to rapidly produce proof-of-concept code to demonstrate potential solutions.

• Knowledge of, and experience with, cloud computing technology.

• Knowledge of IT Infrastructure designs, technologies, products, and services. This should include knowledge of networking protocols,operating systems, databases, and other technologies.

• Knowledge and experience normally acquired through, or equivalent to, the completion of a Computer Science or Computer Engineering Bachelors degree witha minimum of 5-7years of job-related experience.

• Strong communication skills with ability to influence at all levels of the organization; ability to simplify complex security topics for consumption and critical decision making

• Proven experience as a Cyber Incident Response Analyst/Engineer, with a focus on senior-level responsibilities.

• Deep understanding of cyber threats, vulnerabilities, and attack vectors.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

• Relevant certifications (e.g., CISSP, CISM, GIAC, AWS, AZURE).

• Experience working in a software development environment.

• Knowledge of cloud security best practices.

Logistics and Requirements

• The ability to obtain security clearance.

• Federal Reserve System candidates will remain employed at current Federal Reserve Bank, but report into the FedNow team via cross-district arrangement.

• Be able to support on-call and work-rotation activities

The salary range for this position is $149,500 - $224,300. The Boston Fed believes in salary transparency. The final salary and offer will be determined by the applicant's background, skills, internal equity, and alignment with market data. Whether you're developing into the job or are a more seasoned candidate, we aim to pay competitively. If you reside outside of the 1st District (Boston), you may be hired by your local Federal Reserve District and compensation will follow hiring District's range and policy.
All employees assigned to this position will be subject to FBI fingerprint/ criminal background and Patriot Act/ Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) watch list checks at least once every five years. The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work required of this position. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities or skills associated with this position or the personnel so classified. While this job description is intended to be an accurate reflection of this position, management reserves the right to revise this or any job description at its discretion at any time.
The Federal Reserve System is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace and to provide equal employment opportunities to all persons without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, genetic information, disability, or military service.
All employees assigned to this position will be subject to FBI fingerprint/ criminal background and Patriot Act/ Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) watch list checks at least once every five years.
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work required of this position. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities or skills associated with this position or the personnel so classified. While this job description is intended to be an accurate reflection of this position, management reserves the right to revise this or any job description at its discretion at any time.
For this job, any offer of employment is contingent upon successfully passing a two-phase security screening. The first phase consists of the satisfactory completion of a physical examination (including a drug screening), reference checks, and a security investigation consisting of credit and criminal history checks.
The second phase, which might not be complete until after you begin working at the Reserve Bank, is an additional risk-based security screening determined by the risk rating of the position. Depending upon the sensitivity of the position, this phase may include, and is not limited to, work and residency eligibility verification, and personal interviews with the candidate, references, and prior employers.
All applicants must have resided in the United States for at least three (3) years
Full Time / Part Time
Full time
Regular / Temporary
Regular
Job Exempt (Yes / No)
Yes
Job Category
Information Technology Family Group
Work Shift
First (United States of America)
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