Company

Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

When you join the Federal Reserve—the nation's central bank—you'll play a key role, collaborating with leading tech professionals to strengthen and protect our economic, financial and payments systems. We dedicate more than $1 billion to technology each year to support the Federal Reserve and our economy, and we're building a dynamic and diverse team for our future.

Overview

The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis is looking for an Information Security Engineer who will use technical and information security knowledge to identify security threats across a diverse portfolio of technologies. As our Information Security Engineer, you will report to the Information Security Manager and provide an important role in securing applications and cloud environments for the Federal Reserve Bank. The Information Security Engineer will grow the application security program by providing the knowledge and technical leadership necessary to strengthen security controls within the architecture and agile software development lifecycle, ranging from risk identification to driving risk-based solutions and mitigations, with a high focus on innovation and automation.

Responsibilities

• Manage application security tools including static, dynamic, and interactive security analysis solutions, CI/CD pipeline automated security tools, web application firewalls, container security tools, and develop related documentation.

• Partner with application teams and cloud engineers to build security automation testing tools into the CI/CD Pipeline.

• Collaborate across multiple development teams and business partners to lead cyber security programs throughout the organization.

• Perform assessments of security tools, vendors, and solutions to support information security roadmaps.

• Work with teams to embed security logging and monitoring across the corporate and cloud environments.

• Lead discussions and projects with technical personnel, business partners, and executives to strengthen controls around agile development processes, secure coding practices, and secure cloud design.

• Manage security testing efforts by working with application development teams to assess and prioritize discovered security issues and vulnerabilities.

• Lead the identification, response, investigation, and communication of security issues and promote remediation efforts with development teams and partners.

• Assist application teams with developing remediation strategies to prevent future security issues.

• Assist the Incident Response Team with web application and cloud related security incidents.

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Computer Information Systems, Business Administration or technology-related field, Information Security or commensurate experience

• 5+ years of experience in Cloud Security, DevOps, or Software Development, and a combination of the following:

• At least one security or cloud-related certification

• Knowledge of Software Security and understanding of Secure Agile Development processes.

• Experience with management and use of application security testing tools.

• Experience investigating security issues.

• Knowledge of cloud security architectures and services.

• Experience with containerization methods and technologies.

• Knowledge of technical security control environments and compliance frameworks such as NIST.

• Experience managing priorities and deadlines and to work independently in a dynamic, diverse, and ambiguous environment with multiple concurrent projects happening simultaneously.

• Programming, scripting, or automation knowledge.

• Travel (10%)

• US Citizen

• Candidates with significant experience may be considered at a higher job grade or salary

Total Rewards

Bring your passion and expertise, and we'll provide the opportunities that will challenge you and propel your growth—along with a wide range of benefits and perks that support your health, wealth, and life.

Salary: $107,000 - $113,000

In addition to competitive compensation, we offer a comprehensive benefits package that all brought together in a flexible work environment where you can truly find balance:

• Generous paid time off

• Flexible on-site work arrangements

• Tuition & Training assistance/reimbursement

• 401(k) match & Annuity/Pension fund

• Top-notch health care benefits

• Child and family care leave

• Professional development opportunities

• And more...

At the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, we believe the Federal Reserve most effectively serves the American public by building a more diverse and inclusive economy. Our commitment to diversity and inclusion, at all levels of the organization, has been one of our core values for many years and remains strong as we continue enhancing our efforts. Learn more about Bank’s culture (https://www.stlouisfed.org/careers) .

The Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

#LI-Hybrid

Full Time / Part Time

Full time

Regular / Temporary

Regular

Job Exempt (Yes / No)

Yes

Job Category

Information Technology

Work Shift

First (United States of America)

The Federal Reserve Banks believe that diversity and inclusion among our employees is critical to our success as an organization, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. The Federal Reserve Banks are committed to equal employment opportunity for employees and job applicants in compliance with applicable law and to an environment where employees are valued for their differences.

Privacy Notice (https://www.kansascityfed.org/documents/7797/Workday_Privacy_Notice.pdf)

OUR BANK has one of the most recognizable brands around the world. The Federal Reserve is the central bank of the United States—one of the world's most influential, trusted and prestigious financial organizations. The Federal Reserve is charged with the important mission of promoting a strong economy and a stable financial system and fulfills this responsibility by formulating national monetary policy, supervising and regulating banks and bank holding companies, and providing financial services for banks and the U.S. government.

OUR PEOPLE are diverse in background and ideas, which allows for ongoing creativity and innovation. Ultimately, they are the ones who push our high-performance, exchange-driven culture forward.

Why Our People Choose Us:

Our reputation precedes us

There will always be room for personal growth

Our people are first

You’ll find the right balance

Your responsibilities will be meaningful

We hope that you will be our future colleague.