Cybersecurity Engineer Job at United States Senate Federal Credit Union

United States Senate Federal Credit Union Alexandria, VA 22314

Job Description:
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Mission:*
In the Senate Community tradition of service, we strive to improve the financial wellness of our members throughout all stages of life by integrating sustainability and security into every financial solution.
Culture Competencies: S.T.R.I.V.E

  • Maintains our members’ and employees’ trust by safeguarding their financial data and information.
  • Values and respects everyone’s abilities, opinions, and feedback to achieve trust, safety, and well-being in a friendly, welcoming, and cooperative environment. Actively devoted to our motto of "better together".
  • Is honest, professional, authentic, and genuine in creating relationships that are uncompromising and true to ethical principles.
  • Generates new ideas, supports change, provides new efficient solutions, and solves problems creatively while balancing risk.

General Summary
The Cybersecurity Engineer primarily focuses on the day-to-day security operations (SecOps) within the organization, securing our member’s critical information and our systems. This position is relied on to employ technical cybersecurity skill and precision in a multi cloud environment running 24x7x365. This role works to ensure that our organization is operating our tools effectively and fully, and providing the technical support and response needed every day to be recognized as an industry leader in applied cybersecurity.
Overall, our SecOps team is given the mandate of supporting the company’s strategic vision by delivering and operating best in class security technologies across the organization. Our engineers are responsible for the total design, deployment, and lifecycle management for security products. The day-to-day for this role consists of equal parts project participation, innovation, and technical expertise.
The team is expected to work together with other IT resources to establish and share 24/7 on-call coverage for platform components (and associated products) through provided company incident response platforms.

Major Duties & Responsibilities

  • Work alongside a small team of security focused engineering resources, analyzing security system events, applying vendor feedback, and responding to regulatory requests.
  • Report possible threats or related issues through aligned company incident response and documentation platforms (JIRA, etc.).
  • Maintain awareness of industry reporting and trends, understanding and identifying weaknesses and the appropriate ways to counter them.
  • Collaborate, coordinate, and support the greater IT team with ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements and internal management frameworks.
  • Leverage existing investments (NGFW, IDS/IPS, Sandboxing, Behavioral Analytics, Identity Federation, M365, etc.) to secure systems and information, preventing or otherwise responding to potential campaign incidents.
  • Understand the organization’s software, hardware, cloud, and internet needs and adjust security controls according to appropriately accommodate that business environment where possible.
  • Work alongside other IT staff on projects or initiatives to ensure the appropriate implementation for applicable security technologies (for ex; micro-segmentation, security badges, 2FA, etc.).
  • Participate in supporting helpdesk activities, answering user questions, backfilling other resources, etc., as directed by management.
  • Participate in on-call rotation schedules for after-hours operational support for core critical issues alongside the rest of the IT staff.
  • Ensure appropriate recording of daily documentation within company systems (JIRA, Confluence, etc.) in alignment with published guidelines.
  • Promote security awareness efforts and participate in new hire orientation, consumer events, etc.
  • Most importantly: be an active participant in an environment of open access, fast failures, transparency, and continuous improvement.

Required Experience:
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Education: *Bachelor’s degree preferred.
Experience: 3+ years of progressive experience within the areas of information technology. Experience working in a virtualized environment a plus.
Any experience with security technologies or concepts such as Zero Trust frameworks, Identity Federation, Next Generation Firewalls, Intrusion Detection and Prevention, Malware Sandboxing, Micro-segmentation, AV/AM, Risk Based Analytics, etc.
Skills: Strong decision-making, problem-solving, critical thinking, and testing skills.
Ability to deliver security operations plans independently and to translate ideas and requirements into technical solutions with minimal supervision.
Demonstrated understanding of how different components interact in a distributed and virtualized environment.
Familiarity with collaboration/documentation tools (JIRA, Confluence, Visio, etc.) a plus.
Familiarity with VMware Virtualization, NSX, Tanzu, Palo Alto, Carbon Black, Dell OS10, or associated supporting technologies are a plus.
Communication: Must have superior interpersonal skills and be comfortable engaging with people from a wide variety of roles, cultures, and economic backgrounds.
Supervisory: None Required
Time in Service: None Required

Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled
An Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status, and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.
From: United States Senate Federal Credit Union

Job Type: Full-time




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