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Discover. A brighter future.

With us, you’ll do meaningful work from Day 1. Our collaborative culture is built on three core behaviors: We Play to Win, We Get Better Every Day & We Succeed Together. And we mean it — we want you to grow and make a difference at one of the world's leading digital banking and payments companies. We value what makes you unique so that you have an opportunity to shine.

Come build your future, while being the reason millions of people find a brighter financial future with Discover.

Job Description 

The Lead Cyber Incident Analyst will be responsible for identifying and addressing cyber threats that target DFS. Other duties will include mentoring junior analyst and publishing various threat reports as needed.

As a Lead Cyber Threat Analyst at Discover you will face the challenge of identifying cyber threats as well as validating the potential impact to the organization. You will utilize skills such as OSINT, internet research and documentation to track cyber threat actors and attack techniques. 

Responsibilities:

  • Execute timely, thorough, and effective incident handling through collaboration and innovation. Utilize security monitoring technologies to analyze security events. Provide mitigation services for identified threats and security incidents. Maintain evidence integrity during digital forensic acquisitions and analysis. Complete thorough documentation for incident investigations including root cause analysis, relevant forensic artifacts, and technical and procedural lessons learned. Identify innovative opportunities for incident response tools and processes which enable rapid analysis and response to security incidents at enterprise scale. Assist in the development of presentations and executive briefings regarding relevant security incidents and findings to senior management. Create and maintain documentation for incident response team including technical procedures, detailed diagrams, pertinent metrics, and report templates. Contribute thought leadership and technical solutions back into the investigative and incident response community at a local and global level.
  • Identifies and evaluates potential vulnerabilities and drives the normalization, correlation, and integration of internal and subscription threat-intelligence source. Produces actionable intelligence in the form of reports, notifications, alerts, and briefings. Develops mitigation and countermeasure strategies from collected threat intelligence. Recognizes security violations and takes appropriate action to report each incident, as required. Analyzes the organization's cyber defense procedures and configurations and evaluates compliance with regulations and organizational directives. Performs in-depth analysis of security issues and/or vulnerabilities. Ensures compliance to audit, regulatory, and legal requirements. Builds and maintains effective relationships with peers and internal business partners. Creates effective controls to address security concerns. Develops metrics and new capabilities to ensure confidentiality, integrity, availability, authentication, and non-repudiation. Measures effectiveness of defense-in-depth architecture against known vulnerabilities. Engages in reporting risk remediation assurance and automation/integration initiatives and collaborates with stakeholders, at all levels, to ensure remediation is validated, risk is mitigated, and findings are fully closed/resolved. Maintains in-depth knowledge of security trends and threats. Assist in the design and development of security solutions and processes that are consistent with business goals and risk tolerance. Provides subject matter expertise for supported Cybersecurity technologies.
  • Proactively detect advanced threats that evade traditional security controls using both manual and machine-assisted capabilities and aims to find advanced adversaries. Develop hunt scenarios, translate them into an iterative process, participating in threat actor-based red team simulations, and creating new detection methodology. Use data analysis, threat intelligence, and cutting-edge security technologies to detect, disrupt and eradicate threat actors. Generate strategically relevant attack scenarios to simulate adversaries. Test security effectiveness and defensive readiness for the organization. Provide alternative analysis as a Red & Hunt team to test the organization’s prevention, detection, and response capabilities against digital threats. Identify how attackers can infiltrate and move inside the organization’s network and find ways to disrupt them. Draw attention to the business impact of computer/system/network security issues. 
  • Oversee primary data, incident, and analytic security platforms. Manage full-lifecycle development and support of home-grown security tools and solutions. Analyze new tools and technologies. Integration and upkeep of various datasets to ensure data streams are accessible and data quality is maintained. Manage detection content for security tools for operations center.

Minimum Qualifications:

  • Bachelors Computer Science, information Security or related
  • 2+ years Information Security, Computer Science, Data Analytics or related
  • In Lieu of education, 4+ years Information Security, Computer Science, Data Analytics or related

Preferred Qualifications:

  • GIAC Certifications, Security +, Network +, CISSP, OSCP
  • Experience with Splunk analysis, Python scripting and data analysis 

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The same way we treat our employees is how we treat all applicants – with respect. Discover Financial Services is an equal opportunity employer (EEO is the law). We thrive on diversity & inclusion. You will be treated fairly throughout our recruiting process and without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status in consideration for a career at Discover.

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Start enjoying great benefits Day 1 — We support you with the same dedication we bring to all of our customers. Our comprehensive benefits package features first-class insurance, financial planning support and excellent perks designed to help you reach your goals and live a rich, healthy life.

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Culture
Volunteer in local community
Discover’s business is built on helping people, and we invest in the community (Blessing Backpacks, Boys & Girls Clubs, Big Brothers/Sisters) to demonstrate our commitment to a brighter future.
Partners with nonprofits
Open door policy
OKR operational model
Team based strategic planning
Open office floor plan
Employee resource groups
Hybrid work model
In-person all-hands meetings
In-person revenue kickoff
Summer hours
Employee awards
Flexible work schedule
Remote work program
Diversity
Dedicated diversity and inclusion staff
Mandated unconscious bias training
Diversity manifesto
Mean gender pay gap below 10%
Diversity employee resource groups
Hiring practices that promote diversity
Health Insurance & Wellness Benefits
Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
You can open a separate Health Care FSA (HCFSA) and contribute up to $2,650 tax-free from your paycheck to reimburse yourself for eligible out-of-pocket expenses.
Disability insurance
Employees receive Short-Term Disability Insurance at no cost.
Dental insurance
Discover offers two dental plan options — Standard and Premier — both are administered by MetLife.
Vision insurance
Discover offers two vision plan options — Standard and Premier through VSP.
Health insurance
Discover offers a variety of medical plans for you and eligible family members, so that you can choose the benefit plan that suits your needs.
Life insurance
As a Discover employee, you receive Basic Life Insurance of one times your HWEE (up to $500,000) at no cost to you.
Pet insurance
Purchase medical coverage at a discounted rate for your beloved family pet. The more pets you insure, the greater the discount.
Wellness programs
Help balance your work and personal life with a wide variety of free and discounted resource and referral services including family and relationship counseling and financial guidance.
Mental health benefits
Transgender health care benefits
Financial & Retirement
401(K)
You may elect to contribute 1% to 30% of your eligible base salary, commissions and bonus on a pre-tax basis, up to IRS limits every year.
401(K) matching
Discover matches up to 6% of the pre-tax contributions you make to the 401(k) Plan.
Employee stock purchase plan
The ESPP provides eligible employees with an opportunity to purchase shares of Discover common stock through payroll deductions at a 5% discount.
Performance bonus
Charitable contribution matching
Child Care & Parental Leave Benefits
Childcare benefits
Generous parental leave
Family medical leave
Adoption Assistance
Discover helps eligible employees and their families with the costs of adoption by reimbursing certain expenses.
Company sponsored family events
Fertility benefits
Vacation & Time Off Benefits
Generous PTO
Discover has a Paid Time Off of 4 to 5 Weeks of paid time per year.
Paid volunteer time
Paid holidays
Paid sick days
Office Perks
Commuter benefits
When you enroll in the Commuter Benefits Program at WageWorks, you’ll save on taxes on mass-transit passes, parking and other eligible expenses.
Company-sponsored outings
Onsite office parking
Recreational clubs
Relocation assistance
Fitness stipend
Onsite gym
Professional Development Benefits
Job training & conferences
Tuition reimbursement
Discover provides tuition reimbursement and a full-ride bachelor's degree program for select online degree programs.
Lunch and learns
Promote from within
Mentorship program
Continuing education stipend
Continuing education available during work hours
Online course subscriptions available
Customized development tracks
Personal development training

Additional Perks + Benefits

The benefit starts from the first day of employment so all eligible U.S.-based employees can start participating as soon as they want regardless of how long they have been with the company.

We leverage intentional investments to strategically develop and retain our talent. Our approach is human-centered and focused on delivering meaningful and measurable experiences to build the capability of our talent and position them to deliver on our strategic priorities. Our experiences are equitable, inclusive, and aligned to our values, Discover Behaviors, and how we work.

As employees continue their journey with us, they have access to build professional and leadership skills. They are supported when transitioning to new levels of leadership. High potential employees are rewarded with development experiences that assure a diverse leadership pipeline of strong talent is created.

We understand how important it is to thank and acknowledge our employees for being a vital part of our company. Awards and recognition programs are one way we show our appreciation for their contributions.

To foster a culture that prioritizes the needs of our employees and promotes flexibility, balance, and good health, we strive to:

• Create an inclusive environment where well-being is visibly prioritized.
• Continually encourage leaders to invest in their employees’ well-being.
• Provide resources, education and training on well-being that is easily accessible.

We offer a range of benefits and resources to employees under our three pillars of employee well-being: Health, Wealth, and Balance.

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