Manager Cyber Security Platform Performance Engineering

The Opportunity

At Ally, you get a startup feel, but experience the benefits of a company that’s worked out the kinks and is fulfilling its purpose.

We’re always evolving and see that as a good thing. From owning our work to seeing its impact in the real world, our team is relentless in finding new ways technology can help make experiences better and help people.

We are problem solvers, we value diverse thinking, we support one another, and we challenge ourselves to think bigger in the journey to deliver customer-obsessed tech solutions.

To read more about what our tech team does, be sure to visit our tech blog at ally.tech

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated hands-on manager to lead our Cyber Security Platform Performance Engineering team.

This role demands a blend of technical expertise, leadership skills, and a proactive approach to managing our cybersecurity infrastructure, applications and services ensuring the reliability and security of our environments.

The Work Itself

• Support the engagement and reporting around operations, monitoring, patch management, and lifecycle management
• Assist other cyber security engineering teams in defining, automating (self-service) and implementing key operations metric’s, KPI’s, and dashboard
• Responsible for observability to monitor performance and security through metrics, traces and logs
• Define monitoring metrics such SLO’s (Service Level Objectives) and SLI’s (Service Level Indicators) and work towards eliminating inefficiencies through automation and process improvement
• Leading incident response efforts, including diagnosis, escalation, and resolution

The Skills You Bring

5-10+ years of experience with a consistent record of reliability engineering, with a focus on SLOs, SLIs, error budgeting, and eliminating toil.

Solid experience with incident management, including response, diagnosis, escalation, and reporting is required

• 5+ years of experience leading technical initiatives exhibiting strong leadership skills with the ability to lead and motivate a team of cybersecurity professionals
• Expertise in observability tools and techniques for monitoring metrics, traces, and logs
• Proficiency in automation using scripting languages such as GoLang, Python, and PowerShell
• Hands-on experience with CI / CD pipelines and tools such as GitLab
• Familiarity with monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, and the ELK Stack
• Experience with cyber security tools such as firewalls, intrusion prevention (IPS), web application firewalls (WAF), network access control (NAC), endpoint detection and response (EDR), eMail security, and / or data loss prevention (DLP)

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How We'll Have Your Back

Ally's compensation program offers market-competitive base pay and pay-for-performance incentives (bonuses) based on achieving personal and company goals.

Our Total Rewards program includes industry-leading compensation and benefits plus additional incentives that are designed to meet your needs and those of your family so you can get the most out of your career and your life, including :

• Time Away : 11 paid holidays, 20 paid time off days, and 8 hours of volunteer time off, yearly (paid time off is prorated based on start date)
• Planning for the Future : plan for the near and long term with an industry-leading 401K retirement savings plan with matching and company contributions, student loan pay downs and 529 educational save up assistance programs, tuition reimbursement, employee stock purchase plan, and financial learning center and financial coach access.
• Supporting your Health & Well-being : flexible health and insurance options including medical, dental and vision, employee, spouse and child life insurance, short- and long-term disability, pre-tax Health Savings Account with employer contributions, Healthcare FSA, critical illness, accident & hospital indemnity insurance, and a total well-being program that helps you and your family stay on track physically, socially, emotionally, and financially.
• Building a Family : adoption, surrogacy and fertility assistance as well as paid parental and caregiver leave, Dependent Day Care FSA back-up child and adult / elder care days and childcare discounts.
• Work-Life Integration : other benefits including Mentally Fit Employee Assistance Program, subsidized and discounted Weight Watchers® program and other employee discount programs.
• Other compensations : depending on the role for which you are considered, you may be eligible for travel allowances, relocation assistance, a signing bonus and / or equity.
30+ days ago