FedNow Lead 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, FedNowSM, Fedwire®, National Settlement Service (NSS), FedCash®, FedACH® (Automated Clearing House), and Check Services. We are currently leading a strategic effort to transform FRFS to a national, enterprise-focused organization. Through our evolved structure, we will meet the needs of the marketplace for new products and services more quickly, seek to provide a more robust and unified customer experience across our financial service offerings, and create new career growth opportunities for FRFS staff.

The Federal Reserve has developed a new interbank 24x7x365 real-time gross settlement (RTGS) service with integrated clearing functionality, called the FedNow Service. This service enables financial institutions to provide their customers with the ability to send and receive payments any time, any day, and have full access to those funds within seconds. This position is a unique opportunity to be part of this mission-critical Federal Reserve initiative that is transforming the payments landscape in the United States.

The position will be primarily on-site with residency commutable to one of our offices required.

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. The Lead Cyber Security Engineer position reports to the Security Operations Manager.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop code to automate security configuration management.
• Build, test, and deploy cybersecurity relevant technical solutions.
• Lead security investigations through data analysis, tooling, 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 seek to 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.

Knowledge, Skills and Experience Required

Supervision

Other Considerations

he Federal Reserve Bank of Boston is committed 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.

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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