Senior Cloud Security Engineer - Detection Engineering/AWS

Job Description:

At Bank of America, we are guided by a common purpose to help make financial lives better through the power of every connection. Responsible Growth is how we run our company and how we deliver for our clients, teammates, communities and shareholders every day.

One of the keys to driving Responsible Growth is being a great place to work for our teammates around the world. Were devoted to being a diverse and inclusive workplace for everyone. We hire individuals with a broad range of backgrounds and experiences and invest heavily in our teammates and their families by offering competitive benefits to support their physical, emotional, and financial well-being.

Bank of America believes both in the importance of working together and offering flexibility to our employees. We use a multi-faceted approach for flexibility, depending on the various roles in our organization.

Working at Bank of America will give you a great career with opportunities to learn, grow and make an impact, along with the power to make a difference. Join us!

Position Summary

Bank of America is looking for an experienced Senior Cloud Security Engineer to join our Cyber Security Operations team. The ideal candidate must have deep knowledge of security controls, tools, features, and operations for AWS. Candidate should be able to demonstrate relevant experience with implementing and enhancing detective capabilities in a fully managed AWS environment. The candidate should be intellectually curious about technology and the evolving threat landscape.

This role will help to build a detection engineering process and culture for a SIEM platform covering on-prem and multi-cloud environments while serving as a technical subject matter expert for the AWS environment. It will partner with teams across Global Information Security to design, develop, tune, and maintain detection content to protect the Bank and support the Banks information security policies and/or procedures.

Qualifications:

• Eight (8) or more years relevant Cyber Security experience with at least five (5) years in Cloud SOC and/or Purple Team roles.
• Highly organized and motivated self-starter who can deliver results with minimal direction.
• Experience writing and tuning detections.
• Experience with SIEM tools.
• Experience designing and implementing technical solutions to enhance visibility, alerting capabilities, and reduce risk within AWS.
• Experience reviewing applications, infrastructure, and architectural designs to identify threats and vulnerabilities.
• Experience with a range of AWS native services and tools (i.e. Guard Duty, Security Hub)
• Understanding of threat frameworks, such as MITRE ATT&CK for Cloud and D3FEND.
• Understanding of Risk Management principles.
• Experience in building, configuring, operating and/or securing cloud infrastructure and applications in AWS with either native cloud service provider capabilities or 3rd party vendor tools.
• Ability to independently assess risks and identify vulnerabilities in infrastructure with an eagerness to suggest new processes, policies, and overall improvements to internal security controls.
• Experience partnering with incident response teams, threat intelligence researchers, Red/Purple teams, and/or HUNT researchers.
• Familiarity with common Information Security and data protection frameworks and standards (i.e. CIS, NIST, HIPAA, GDPR, PCI DSSS, ISO 270001).
• Ability to navigate and collaborate effectively within a geographically complex and dispersed global corporation.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with ability to distill key data points and effectively present information.

Desired

• Bachelors or Masters Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Cyber Security, or related field.
• Preferable Certifications
• CCSP/CCSK
• CISSP/CISM/Security+

Enterprise Role Overview:

This job is responsible for leading multiple security engineering efforts that deliver enterprise security capabilities. Key responsibilities include serving as a subject matter expert of security technology and acting as the critical decision maker with regards to technical design and implementation for respective security initiatives. Job expectations include assigning tasks and providing direction to team members, owning tactical decisions, and fostering relationships with clients and stakeholders.

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