Info Security Exposure Mgmt. Specialist

Job Description:

Role title: Information Security Threat Management Specialist

Corporate title: Vice President

Location: Dublin

Company Overview:

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. We’re 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!

Location Overview:

Our Central Park office in Leopardstown, boasts modern facilities based in Dublin’s premium business park. With an onsite gym and staff restaurant, all your daily needs are conveniently catered for. Travel options include the LUAS network and the Central Park shuttle service between Dublin City Centre and Central Park. We also provide tax saver tickets as part of our award-winning benefits package, which means getting to work has never been so easy.

The Team:

We are looking for an Information Security Exposure Management Specialist to join our team here in Dublin. The Real-Time Security Event Correlation team within Bank of America’s Cyber Security Operations organization provides automated monitoring and notification of security events. Our team prides itself on working as a collaborative unit. If you share our values in the importance of teamwork, unity, and knowledge-sharing, then we want to hear from you. 

Role Description:

In your role as Information security threat management specialist you will assist in developing and maintaining use cases through the enrichment and correlation of security events in a Security Information and Event Management platform. You will be  required to Analyze, improve, implement, and execute security controls proactively to prevent external threat actors from infiltrating company information or systems. You will have the capability to research more advanced and complex attempts/efforts to compromise security protocols. It will be your responsibility to maintain or review security systems, asses security policies that control access to systems, and provides regular status updates to the management team.

Responsibilities:

• You will work within the Security Information and Event Management platform to develop new use case detections and support existing production use cases.
• This will involve working directly with security teams across the Bank’s Global Information Security department.
• Working with the Bank application teams to elicit requirements and to interface with the technology team which administers Splunk.
• You will be joining the team at an exciting time as we are migrating to Splunk from another SIEM application and look to start our next phase of Security Information and Event Management modernization.

What we are looking for:

• Knowledge of the Splunk Platform and its Search Processing Language
• Experience in log parsing, lookups, field transforms/extractions using regular expressions
• Experience writing and tuning detections
• Creative problem-solving and the ability to tackle unique, complex projects
• Demonstrated commitment to training, self-study and maintaining proficiency in the technical cyber security domain
• Ability to navigate and work effectively across a complex, geographically dispersed organization
• Experience working with Audit

Skills that will help:

• A broad knowledge of information security principles
• Experience with other SIEM solutions
• Experience with CI/CD technologies

Benefits of working at Bank of America:

Ireland

• Private healthcare for you and your family plus an annual health screen to help you manage your physical wellness with the option to purchase a screen for your partner
• Competitive pension plan, life assurance and group income protection cover if you become unable to work as a result of a disability or health reasons
• 20 days of back-up childcare and 20 days of back-up adult care per annum 
• The ability to change your core benefits as well as the option of selecting a variety of flexible benefits to suit your personal circumstances including access to a wellbeing account, travel insurance, critical illness etc.
• Access to an Employee Assistance Program for confidential support and help for everyday matters
• Access to free counselling through the Employee Assistance Program and virtual GP services through our private health care plan
• Ability to donate to charities of your choice and the bank will match your contribution
• Opportunity to access our Arts & Culture corporate membership program and receive discounted entry to some of Ireland’s most iconic cultural institutions and exhibitions.
• Opportunity to give back to your community, develop new skills and work with new groups of people by volunteering in your local community.

Bank of America:

Good conduct and sound judgment is crucial to our long term success. It’s important that all employees in the organisation understand the expected standards of conduct and how we manage conduct risk. Individual accountability and an ownership mind-set are the cornerstones of our Code of Conduct and are at the heart of managing risk well.

We are an equal opportunities employer and ensure that no applicant is subject to less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, gender identity or gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, race, religion or belief, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origins, membership of the Traveller community, age, sexual orientation, pregnancy or maternity, civil status,  socio-economic background, family status or physical or mental disability. The Bank selects candidates for interview based on their skills, qualifications and experience.

We strive to ensure that our recruitment processes are accessible for all candidates and encourage any candidates to tell us about any adjustment requirements.