Lead Associate Principal, Cyber Defense

What You'll Do:

The Lead Associate Principal, Cyber Defense will help plan actions and lead security professionals in the analysis and determination of threats to the enterprise, vulnerabilities in the environment, and how our company will best defend itself against these threats. This position will require initiative to oversee security initiatives and be expected to put together projects and teams to remediate identified security threats, incidents, and compliance issues. In addition, the position will enhance the process around monitoring third-party security-related feeds, websites, forums, and mailing lists for information regarding cyber threats, vulnerabilities, and exploits. The role will be heavily involved in the documenting, delivery, and testing of regulatory compliance to all required security regulation as well as the reporting of high-level details and metrics to Senior management.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each primary duty satisfactorily.

Perform duties across several Cyber disciplines, activities may include:

Incident Management and Security Analysis:

• Lead cyber security incident responders in response activities including investigation, coordination, review, and reporting.

• Oversee technical analysis of security events while coordinating incident response activities with internal and external teams.

• Ensure and directly oversee the collection and preservation of data associated with cyber security incident response activities following industry best practices and established procedures.

• Develop and support briefings to OCC senior management as a trusted incident responder.

Security Monitoring & Analysis:

• Prioritize and identify security risks, threats and vulnerabilities of networks, systems, applications, and new technology initiatives.

• Lead systems management team to operationalize remediation efforts for gaps identified.

• Develop and implement security monitoring roadmaps for OCC technologies, applications, SaaS, and other cloud-hosted solutions. These roadmaps will direct efforts on implementation of monitoring use cases and measurement of monitoring capabilities.

• Manage, implement, and validate security monitoring use cases, mapping to frameworks, technical configuration for security tools, etc.

Security Device Administration

• Subject matter expert on security tools including appliances, hosted systems, and SaaS - including health checks, version updates, and content development.

• Validate content changes to security tools are appropriate from other analysts and teams.

• Report on and enhance current metrics surrounding security tool capabilities and efficacy.

• Subject matter expert in the systems lifecycle --- performing upgrades, implementation of new technologies, and enhancement identification.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

• Confer with and advise subordinates on administrative policies and procedures, technical problems, priorities, and methods.

• Advise management selecting and scheduling employee training classes, conferences, and seminars.

Qualifications:

The requirements listed are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the primary functions.

• Team Leadership experience, taking initiative; providing and following through on solutions across various skillsets.

• Proficient with Security related service and process assessments and evaluations based on NIST, COBIT, ISO and/or ITIL standards.

• Experience implementing controls based on security regulation. E.g. NIST Cyber Security Framework.

• Effective and excellent oral and written communication, analytical, judgment and consultation skills.

• Ability to effectively communicate in both formal and informal review settings with all levels of management.

• Experience working with local and remote IT staff/management, vendors and consultants.

• Ability to work independently and possess strong project management skills.

Technical Skills:

Demonstrated proficiency in:

• Implementation and maintenance of (Splunk, Crowdstrike, Symantec DLP, etc.)

• Vulnerability assessment tools (Qualys, Nessus, nmap, etc.)

• Incident Response playbook development managing incident analysis and remediation

• Network sniffers and packet tracing tools (DSS, NAI SnifferPro, Ethereal and tcpdump).

• Proficient with Security preventative and detective technologies (EDR, network-based analysis, etc.)

• Encryption technologies (PGP, PKI and X.509)

• Directory services, LDAP, and their inherent security (Active Directory, CA Directory).

• Proxy and caching services.

• Client/server platforms including Sun Solaris, Windows, Linux.

• Operating system hardening procedures (Solaris, Linux, Windows, etc.)

• LAN/WAN routing and high availability (OSPF, BGP4/iBGP, EIGRP and NSRP).

• Web Application Firewalls.

• Cloud based security tools and techniques (AWS, Azure, GCP, etc.)

• Security Orchestration and Automated Response tools and concepts.

Some experience:

• Scripting and development activities to appropriately leverage Application Programing Interfaces (APIs) to optimize integrations between disparate security monitoring and analysis devices

• Knowledge of Generative A.I.

Education and/or Experience:

• Minimum six years of information security experience, preferably in the financial services industry.

• Minimum three years hands-on security operations experience including interdisciplinary experience with four or more of the following: Cyber Threat Analysis, Digital Computer Forensics, Incident Response, Application Security, Operating Systems Security, Cryptographic Controls, Networking, Programming languages, Incident Response

• Minimum one year in a leadership role or team/project lead capacity.

• Technical experience and comprehensive knowledge of threat actor capabilities, intentions, methodologies, and motives.

• Familiarity with computer network exploitation and network attack methodologies while maintaining an understanding of the relationship these activities have with the financial services industry and critical infrastructure.

• Industry knowledge of leading-edge security technologies and methods

• Shift work and working in an on-call response capacity is required including availability for 24 x 7 on-call support responsibilities

• Previous people/project management experience is a plus

Certificates or Licenses:

* Strongly prefer at least one of the following certifications: CISSP, GCIA, GCIH, CHFI, GCFA, CCE, CFE

About Us

The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC) is the world's largest equity derivatives clearing organization. Founded in 1973, OCC is dedicated to promoting stability and market integrity by delivering clearing and settlement services for options, futures and securities lending transactions. As a Systemically Important Financial Market Utility (SIFMU), OCC operates under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. OCC has more than 100 clearing members and provides central counterparty (CCP) clearing and settlement services to 19 exchanges and trading platforms. More information about OCC is available at www.theocc.com.

Benefits

A highly collaborative and supportive environment developed to encourage work-life balance and employee wellness. Some of these components include:

• A hybrid work environment, up to 2 days per week of remote work
• Tuition Reimbursement to support your continued education
• Student Loan Repayment Assistance
• Technology Stipend allowing you to use the device of your choice to connect to our network while working remotely
• Generous PTO and Parental leave
• 401k Employer Match
• Competitive health benefits including medical, dental and vision

Visit https://www.theocc.com/careers/thriving-together for more information.

Compensation

• The salary range listed for any given position is exclusive of fringe benefits and potential bonuses. If hired at OCC, your final base salary compensation will be determined by factors such as skills, experience and/or education.
• In addition, we believe in the importance of pay equity and consider internal equity of our current team members as part of any final offer.
• We typically do not hire at the maximum of the range in order to allow for future and continued salary growth. We also offer a substantial benefits package as noted on www.theocc.com/careers
• All employees may be eligible for a discretionary bonus. Discretionary bonuses are based on various factors, including, but not limited to, company and individual performance and are not guaranteed.

Salary Range

Incentive Range

This position is eligible for an annual discretionary incentive compensation award, for which the target range is listed above (see Incentive Range). The amount of such award, if any, will be based on various factors, including without limitation, both individual and company performance.

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OCC is an Equal Opportunity Employer