Staff Engineer I - Cyber, Threat and Vulnerability Management

Job Title:

Staff Engineer I - Cyber, Threat and Vulnerability Management

Location:

Block 23

What you'll do:

Western Alliance Bank is seeking a passionate, experienced, and results-driven Cyber Engineer to help engineer, operationalize, and continuously mature a scalable, risk-based Threat & Vulnerability Management (TVM) program across hybrid environments, including on-premises infrastructure, cloud platforms, containerized workloads, and CI/CD pipelines. This role will collaborate with internal business partners and IT Tower Leads to proactively address ongoing vulnerability and configuration hardening issues to ensure rapid resolution. In this role you will foster a collaborative environment with focus on continuous mitigation and mitigation of cyber vulnerabilities. You'll be accountable to proactively recommend improvements to established processes while continuing to deliver high value in execution. You'll also create and deliver comprehensive project plans as well as remove any impediments, track overall project performance, specifically to analyze the successful completion of business short-term and long-term goals.

As a Staff Engineer I - Cyber, Threat & Vulnerability Management, you will serve as a hands-on technical leader responsible for building, integrating, and automating vulnerability discovery, prioritization, remediation workflows, and security guardrails. This role partners closely with Cyber Defense, Cloud Engineering, Infrastructure, DevOps, Application, and Platform teams to reduce enterprise risk through measurable, engineering-led outcomes while operating within established governance and risk frameworks.

• Proactively identify and fix issues to improve backend service scalability, resiliency, and fault tolerance. Respond to computer viruses/bugs in a timely manner alongside engineers. Respond to audit inquiries and ensure processes and procedures are within regulatory guidelines.
• Foster the highest level of software engineering practices and follow relevant company procedures, in addition to being held accountable for relevant documentation.
• Actively participate in and lead all aspects of the software engineering process.
• Revisit architecture design routinely with vendor and peers to either or all: minimize cost, optimize performance, scale, and meet new requirements.

What you'll need:

• 5+ years of related experience in IT--Security, IT--App Support, IT--Development or similar field.
• Bachelor's degree in related field required.
• Previous leadership experience preferred.
• Intermediate knowledge of general Financial Services or Banking is preferred.
• Advanced experience with and knowledge of Linux, Python, PowerShell, SIEM and Bash. Solid understanding of authentication protocols SAML, SSO, and LDAP. Solid understanding of concepts regarding SIEM, SOAR, Firewall, Proxies, SSL/TLS, Secure Mail Gateways, Application Firewalls, NAC, Vulnerability Scanners, and EDR.
• Intermediate to advanced experience with logging infrastructure concepts: syslog; log parsing; log de-duping; methods for log pulling; RFC 5424; CEF Format; JSON; key value pair format; log enrichment; log maintenance; log troubleshooting.
• Solid understanding of load balancers, DNS, SMTP, etc. for troubleshooting application functionality.
• Advanced experience of NIST, MITRE and Administration of either or all of an IT Automation platform, SOAR, Firewall, IAM platform, SIEM, cloud cyber defense platform etc.
• Advanced speaking and writing communication skills.

Benefits you'll love:
We offer all the important things you'd want - like competitive salaries, an ownership stake in the company, medical and dental insurance, time off, a great 401k matching program, tuition assistance program, an employee volunteer program, and a wellness program. In addition, you'll have the opportunity to bolster your business knowledge, learning the ins and outs of how successful companies operate and manage their finances, giving you invaluable hands-on experience to help grow your career!

About the company:

Western Alliance Bank, Member FDIC, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Western Alliance Bancorporation. Serving clients nationwide, Western Alliance Bank includes six legacy bank brands - Alliance Association Bank, Alliance Bank of Arizona, Bank of Nevada, Bridge Bank, First Independent Bank and Torrey Pines Bank - that remain part of the company's heritage, as well as AmeriHome Mortgage, a Western Alliance Bank Company.

Western Alliance Bancorporation is committed to equal employment and will consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, sex, color, religion, age, nation origin, marital status, disability, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or genetic information. Western Alliance Bancorporation is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities. If you are an individual with a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the application process and/or need an alternative method of applying, please email View email address on click.appcast.io or call View phone number on click.appcast.io. When contacting us, please provide your contact information and state the nature of your accessibility issue. We will only respond to inquiries concerning requests that involve a reasonable accommodation in the application process.

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