[Baylisa-jobs] Information Security Analyst (Incident Response)

Mon Mar 11 10:44:05 PDT 2013

I am a sourcer with the Federal Reserve Bank in San Francisco and I work like to talk with you about openings within our organization. As you can imagine, the work of the Federal Reserve Bank is imperative for the proper operation of our nation's financial infrastructure. We are in need of InfoSec individuals to join our team to keep our nations fiscal services sound. My immediate need if for a Security Analyst to join our incident response team. This is a great opportunity for a person to experience an international scale operation and to have great impact on the economic landscape of our country.

Please call me and it would be my pleasure to discuss the opening in greater detail.

Jeff

415-974-3342

Information Security Analyst (Incident Response)

Area Overview: The National Incident Response Team (NIRT), a national service provider for the Federal Reserve System, delivers effective and efficient national intrusion detection, incident response, security intelligence, threat assessment, and vulnerability assessment services for the Federal Reserve System. The mission of the National Incident Response Team is to play a leading role in the Federal Reserve System's efforts to protect is information systems against unauthorized use.

Job Description: As a member of the NIRT, this individual will provide incident response services to the FRS and Treasury. These services include managing complex tracking and data analysis tasks in order to identify computer attacks and probes as they occur, and being responsible for all technical aspects of national Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) operations including intrusion detection, new incident tracking, documentation, analytical investigation, problem closure and future security threat countermeasures. The individual will also complete projects and tasks on an as needed basis, and interact directly with FRS technical and business customers located across the United States.
Required Skills: The candidate should possess in-depth knowledge and understanding of a breadth of information technologies and information security topics. Specifically, this should include the ability to:
* Analyze and review cases until closure; this includes investigating and recommending appropriate corrective actions for cyber security incidents; and communicating with the implementation staff responsible or taking corrective actions.
* Research and develop testing tools, techniques, and process improvements in support of security event detection and incident response.

* Fuse cyber intelligence collected from diverse sources to drive strategic and operational responses to developments in the threat landscape.
* Demonstrate a strong knowledge of, and ability to communicate about, the information security threat landscape.
* Carry out post mortem analysis on logs, traffic flows, and other activities to identify malicious activity.
* Be able to provide technical analysis in support of forensic investigations.
* Drive the development, testing and implementation of security plans, products, control techniques, security policy and procedures for national network security oversight and intrusion response tracking.
* Assess vulnerabilities, then communicates to System-wide information security staff to ensure prompt and effective distribution of alerts and that incidents are addressed in the most effective and efficient manner possible.
* Execute tasks and lead projects as needed.
* Participate in or lead customer and partner facing meetings and projects, including those that involve technical topics or technical service delivery.
* Demonstrate excellent communication skills, analytical ability, strong judgment, and the ability to work effectively with clients and IT management and staffs.
* Communicate technical issues to technical and non-technical business representatives.
* Understand strategic objectives and vision, and work towards those goals.
* Ability to work in a 24x7x365 environment when critical and high severity incidents require attention.
Preferred Skills:
* Experience writing Perl, Python, scripting, programming, or other languages is a plus.

* Large-scale data mining and anomaly detection.

* Strong understanding of malware and exploit lifecycle.
* Comprehensively understand networking protocols and infrastructure designs; including routing, firewall functionality, host and network intrusion detection systems, encryption, load balancing, and other network protocols.
* Experience administering and troubleshooting operating systems, including Solaris, Linux, and Microsoft Windows Server is a plus.
* Database, SQL knowledge is a plus.
* Thoroughly understand TCP/IP protocol.
* Ability to perform or learn system-level or static reverse engineering.
* Ability to perform or learn detailed computer forensics
Education/Certifications: Bachelors degree in field or related discipline. Certifications complementing education are a plus. Advanced degree a plus. The ability to obtain and maintain National Security Clearance is also required.
The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Our people proudly reflect the diversity and ideas of the communities we serve.

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Jeff Myers
Tel.: 415.974.3342
 Human Resources
 Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
 101 Market Street | Mail Stop 500
 San Francisco, California 94105

Fax.: 415.977.4138
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