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Cyber Security Sr
Freddie Mac
Herndon, VA, United States
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Position Overview
The Cyber Security Senior position is within the Cyber Security team at Freddie Mac. The position is responsible for detecting advanced threats and developing new use cases to enhance the monitoring capabilities at Freddie Mac. This position will also be responsible for developing processes and procedures to develop and maintain new monitoring capabilities. The individual builds, develops, and maintains relationships with internal and external customers, and vendors to formulate solutions for Freddie Mac and customer system issues related to Information Security. This position reports to the Threat Detection Manager.
Responsibilities include:
• Act as a Splunk Search Language (SPL) expert, developing network or entity-based anomaly detection alerting logic.
• Coordinates response, triage and escalation of security events affecting the company’s information assets and activities with the Incident Response team.
• Responsible for development/improvement of process/procedures related to Threat detection.
• Conduct research in security principles, host and network-based security technologies, machine learning algorithms, and mitigation methods.
• Operate, develop for, and maintain the Splunk log management infrastructure, leverage knowledge of several security technologies, information security, and networking, and interact with clients.
• Ability to assist with the management of Splunk hardware infrastructure, oversee production support, design the Splunk system to meet growth while maintaining a balance between performance, stability, and agility, and develop advanced scripts for the manipulation of multiple data repositories to support analyst requirements.
• Manage stakeholder expectations and develop advanced reports to meet the requirements of key stakeholders, scalable security management tools, and processes.
• Provide guidance to Junior analysts on the team.
• Co-ordinate with various team in Cyber Security to identify new use cases and develop detection capabilities.
• Provides thought leadership and guidance on intelligence/analytics research to build new use cases that will provide automated and proactive detection and prevention.
• Must be able to present to different audiences and adjust accordingly (business, technical and management) either structured presentations or ad-hoc.
• Must be able to establish and maintain business relationships with individual contributors as well as management.
Qualifications
• 5+ years of experience working with various SIEM technologies.
• 2+ years of Information Security Cyber Security experience
• Bachelors Degree or equivalent work experience
• Demonstrated experience with designing and implementing SIEM (Splunk) use cases.
• Experience in developing security-focused content like complex threat detection logic, dynamic operational dashboards etc.
• Expert in data source onboarding and configuring and deploying enterprise security.
Preferred Skills
• CISSP or CISM certification is preferred. Other relevant security certifications will be considered such as CEH or GCIH
• Experience in the financial services industry
• Experience in the following: Unix Scripting, Programming, SQL, WAF, Reverse Engineering Malware
Closing Statement
Today, Freddie Mac makes home possible for one in four home borrowers and is one of the largest sources of financing for multifamily housing. Join our smart, creative and dedicated team and you’ll do important work for the housing finance system and make a difference in the lives of others. Freddie Mac is an equal opportunity and top diversity employer. EOE, M/F/D/V.