Incident Response Analyst - Overnight Shift

When you join the Federal Reserve-the nation’s central bank-you’ll play a key role, collaborating with leading tech professionals to strengthen and protect our economic, financial and payments systems. We invest in contemporary and emerging technology each year to support the Federal Reserve and our economy, and we’re building a dynamic team for our future.

The Federal Reserve System (FRS) National Incident Response Team (NIRT) is seeking an Incident Response Analyst. The NIRT, a national service provider for the FRS, delivers effective intrusion detection, incident response, forensics, security intelligence, threat assessment, and penetration testing services.

The role is for an incident triage and response professional. You will be expected to be able to investigate and respond to security events within the FRS with minimal oversight. The ideal candidate will have some more specialized skills such as Security Operations Center (SOC) support, disk and/or memory forensics, phone forensics, malware analysis, and/or threat hunting skills.

Key Activities

• Perform security event triage and analysis with knowledge in current security threats and techniques.
• Analyze a large volume of security event data from multiple sources to identify suspicious and malicious activity.
• Perform postmortem analysis of traffic flows.
• Conduct network forensics.
• Conduct follow up analysis throughout the incident life cycle.
• Complete projects and tasks associated with security monitoring, detection, and incident response.
• Analyze all relevant data sources for attack indicators and potential network and host compromises.
• Respond to different attack vectors such as data exfiltration, DDoS, malware, insider risk, and phishing.
• Develop scripts and tools to improve the efficiency of incident detection and response processes.
• Interface with NIRT customers and stakeholders., * Location(s): Boston, MA- New York, NY- Philadelphia, PA- Cleveland, OH- Richmond, VA- Atlanta, GA- Chicago, IL- St. Louis, MO- Minneapolis, MN- Kansas City, MO- Dallas, TX- San Francisco, CA
• This position will generally require working three (3) consecutive twelve (12) hour night shifts from 8:00pm - 8:00am ET, followed by four (4) days off. It may be required to shift days to ensure coverage when other team members are out.
• This position will have the ability to work remotely, within a commutable distance to a Federal Reserve Bank location.
• This position is eligible for a shift differential while working the 3rd shift.

Citizenship Requirements: United States citizenship is required for this position.

Screening Requirements: This position has additional screening requirements due to the information accessed while performing the job. These additional screenings would be initiated at the time of offer acceptance and could take up to a couple of months to complete. You can begin work before the screening is completed; however, continued employment is contingent on acceptable screening results. The areas screened may include education/employment verification, criminal history, credit history, and reference checks.

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience with 3+ years of relevant work experience.

• In-depth understanding of a variety of information technologies and information security topics. * Specifically, this should include the following:

• SIEM/SOAR utilization skills to analyze security events from multiple monitoring and logging sources to identify, investigate and confirm suspicious activity.
• Knowledge of incident response and handling methodologies.
• Knowledge of common adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs).
• Knowledge of cyber threats and vulnerabilities.
• Knowledge of cyber-attack stages (e.g., reconnaissance, scanning, enumeration, gaining access, escalation of privileges, maintaining access, network exploitation, covering tracks).
• Knowledge of which system files (e.g., log files, registry files, configuration files) contain relevant information and where to find those system files).
• Knowledge to analyze all relevant data sources for attack indicators and potential network and host compromises.
• Knowledge of current security threats, techniques, and landscape, and a dedicated approach to research current information security landscape.
• Understanding of IT Infrastructure designs, technologies, products, and services. This should include knowledge of networking protocols, firewall functionality, host and network intrusion detection systems, operating systems, databases, encryption, load balancing, and other technologies.
• Hold one or more relevant security certifications/degrees and/or commensurate experience.
• Ability to communicate complex information, concepts, or ideas in a confident and well-organized manner through verbal, written, and/or visual means, evaluate information for reliability, validity, and relevance, and function effectively in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
• Function in a collaborative environment, seeking continuous consultation with other analysts and experts-both internal and external to the organization-to leverage analytical and technical expertise, think critically and think like threat actors.
• Ability to develop productive working relationships with a broad range of business and operational area professionals., Sponsorship: The Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position. Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States without the need for visa sponsorship now or in the future.

Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond