Senior Information Security Engineer

About the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

The Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago is one of 12 regional Reserve Banks that, along with the Board of Governors in Washington, D.C., make up our nation's central bank. Our work promotes a safe, sound, and stable financial system which fosters an economy that works for everyone, so people can find jobs and prices remain stable. Together, we serve in an innovative environment that values our employees and applies the highest ethical standards.

Our culture is deeply rooted in our service to our nation and our organizational values of integrity, service, innovation, inclusion, growth, and development. As an employee with us, you’ll find support to grow amongst a diverse team, while feeling united by our clear and common purpose.

The Federal Reserve Financial Services (FRFS) enterprise delivers a suite of payments services to financial institutions via Fed Line® Solutions, Fedwire®, National Settlement Service (NSS), Fed Cash®, FedACH® (Automated Clearing House), and Check Services.

The Customer Operations and Security team is responsible for the security of the FRFS aggregate infrastructure and production operating environment, including customer (e.g., depository institution) security. Our work spans incident response for customer security events, threat landscape and intel gathering, insider risk management, vulnerability management and technical currency coordination, and end-to-end observability of key security events across the FRFS infrastructure. This team builds and runs the real-time “common operating picture” capability for security end-to-end from the customer to the FRS.

• Manages and maintains the organization’s vulnerability management program, including but not limited to:
  • Compiling metrics and performance across the enterprise and its products;
  • Improving and maintaining processes to categorize vulnerabilities and route to appropriate implementation teams for resolution;
  • Supporting FRFS cyber risk assessment, evaluation and tolerance processes;
  • Tracking and ongoing reporting of key performance and risk indicators;
  • Serving as a liaison between FRFS IS and other key internal and external stakeholders (i.e., FRFS Enterprise Risk, FRFS Resiliency, auditors, and external customers and Financial Services industry partners, etc.).
• Establishes and maintains end-to-end observability processes and improvements, including but not limited to:
  • Defining key alerts and monitors in centralized tools to support an effective incident response process;
  • Ensuring effective monitoring to support a robust end-to-end security posture;
  • Collaborating with other shared services teams to bring the vision to reality in iterative and incremental fashion.
• Key participant in cyber incident response processes and maintainer of associated processes and procedures.
• Maintains relationships with business areas that interact with FRFS, District, and National governance processes in a moderately complex manner on a regular basis.
• Supports the collection and tracking of cybersecurity and threat intelligence information via open-source and private partnerships.

The primary desired work location for this position is Chicago, Kansas City, or New York, but candidates that live anywhere in the continental US will be considered. The level of work required is considered intermediate to advanced and staff must be able to work under general to limited supervision. This job does not have any direct reports.

• Full-time in the office with flexibility and may require you to travel as much as 10% of the time.

• Experience supporting agile processes utilizing Dev Sec Ops  frameworks
• Experience in end-to-end monitoring and alerting solutions, SIEMs, and equivalent technologies in support of anomalous activity monitoring/escalation/triage:
  • Familiarity with Splunk, Data Dog, and related SIEM tools.
  • Familiarity with contemporary scripting tools such as Powershell, Unix shells, etc.
  • Familiarity with security orchestration and data transformation processes
• Experience supporting cyber incident response activities.
• Experie…