Associate Principal, Cyber Defense
Who We Are
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.
What We Offer
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 3 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
Competitive health benefits including medical, dental and vision
Summary
The 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 rile 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.
Intelligence Analysis:
- Actively monitor and research cyber threats with a direct or indirect impact to the OCC brand, business operations, or technology infrastructure.
- Oversee process of monthly reporting to Security management on and Incident management metrics.
Security Monitoring & Analysis:
- Prioritize and identify security risks, threats and vulnerabilities of networks, systems, applications, and new technology initiatives.
- Lead various teams 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.
Security Device Administration
- Report on and enhance current metrics surrounding security tool capabilities and efficacy.
Supervisory Responsibilities:
None
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.
- Proven team player will be working primarily with other staff members, on both long-term projects and rapid response under tight deadlines.
- Team Leadership experience, taking initiative; providing and following through on solutions across various skillsets.
- 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.
- Ability to work 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:
- Incident Response playbook development managing incident analysis and remediation
- Network sniffers and packet tracing tools (DSS, NAI SnifferPro, Ethereal and tcpdump).
- Standard technical writing tools including MS Word, Excel, Project and Visio
Familiarity with:
- Proxy and caching services.
- Client/server platforms including Windows, Linux.
- Operating system hardening procedures (, Linux, Windows, etc.)
- Web Application Firewalls.
- Security Orchestration and Automated Response tools and concepts.
Education and/or Experience:
- Minimum three years of information security experience, preferably in the financial services industry.
- Minimum two 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.
- Industry knowledge of leading-edge security technologies and methods
- working in an on-call response capacity is required including availability for 24 x 7 on-call support responsibilities
Certificates or Licenses:
- Strongly prefer at least one of the following certifications: CISSP, GCIA, GCIH, CHFI, GCFA, CCE, CFE