FedNow Lead Cyber Security Engineer

OverviewFedNow Lead Cyber Security Engineer role at Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. The position is primarily on-site with residency commutable to one of our offices required. This role is responsible for helping to ensure the security and integrity of the FedNow organization across people, operations, and technology, supporting security engineering and operations, and providing cybersecurity expertise through consultation and hands-on technical activities.Key ResponsibilitiesDevelop 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 proactive hunting for malicious activity impacting FedNow holistically.Represent a technologist’s 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 RequiredAbility to program or script in Bash, Python, Java, or Go.Ability to utilize tools like CI/CD Automation similar to TravisCI, CircleCI, Github Action, Gitlab Pipelines or AWS CodeDeploy.Expertise in Incident Response to include network security, vulnerability assessment, SIEM tooling, and adaptability.Expertise with Cloud IAM Configuration, Container Orchestration, and Log Management tooling.Ability to rapidly produce proof-of-concept code to demonstrate potential solutions.Knowledge of, and experience with, cloud computing technology.Knowledge of IT infrastructure designs, technologies, products, and services, including networking protocols, operating systems, databases, and other technologies.Typically requires a Computer Science or Computer Engineering Bachelor's degree with a minimum of 5-8 years of job-related experience.Strong communication skills with ability to influence at all levels of the organization; ability to simplify complex security topics for consumption and critical decision making.SupervisionThis position will not directly supervise employees.Other ConsiderationsPeriodic travel within the U.S. may be required – 10-15% of time.This role requires being on-call on a rotational basis to address urgent issues outside of regular business hours.The 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. #J-18808-Ljbffr

Created: 2025-09-25