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Job Description: At Bank of America, we are guided by a common purpose to help make financial lives better through the power of every connection. We do this by driving Responsible Growth and delivering for our clients, teammates, communities and shareholders every day. Being a Great Place to Work is core to how we drive Responsible Growth. This includes our commitment to being a diverse and inclusive workplace, attracting and developing exceptional talent, supporting our teammates’ physical, emotional, and financial wellness, recognizing and rewarding performance, and how we make an impact in the communities we serve. At Bank of America, you can build a successful career with opportunities to learn, grow, and make an impact. Join us! Job Description: Our Security Operations and Threat Response team within Bank of America’s Cyber Security Technology function works to continuously strengthen the bank’s cyber security posture through partnership and delivery of technology to support our content detection and threat hunt teams. This team works with partners in Cyber Security Operations to deliver robust technology solutions and support for detection engineering environments and content scenarios. Role Responsibilities: The position of Senior Splunk Detection Engineer is responsible for analyzing and correlating large data sets to uncover novel threats and attack techniques that may be present within the bank’s environments. A Senior Splunk Detection Engineer also will be tasked with and collaborating with data science, threat research, and cyber defense control teams to identify opportunities to develop analytical methods to detect indicators of compromise. In support of these processes, the role will also include developing and documenting new and innovative detection content to increase the coverage of threats across the enterprise. The role will also be expected to actively share knowledge and mentor more junior members of the Security Operations and Threat Response team. The role will work with all Cyber Defense operational and technical teams within Global Information Security (GIS) to gain insight into critical security controls and architectural specifics to develop valuable detection strategies and analytics that identify malicious behavior accurately. This role advises on product assessments, policy adjustments, and architectural transformations that impact the global enterprise. Furthermore, the role will be a thought leader in the design of cutting-edge detective, preventative, and proactive controls. The role will need hands on technical acumen with writing efficient SPL within short timelines to support detection needs of the firm. Required Skills: Minimum of 6+ years of experience in a technical role in the areas of Security Operations, Incident Response, Detection Engineering or Threat Hunting Direct experience performing content detection engineering and threat hunting in an active corporate environment. Significant experience working with Splunk Procedure Language to create and tune detections. Experience mapping data fields to a common data model such as CEF, OCSF. Direct experience working with very large datasets and log analysis tools including but not limited to: Splunk, Python, Pandas, SQL, Hadoop, Hue Ability to see the larger picture when dealing with competing requirements and needs from across the organization in order to build consensus and drive results. Ability to navigate and work effectively across a complex, geographically dispersed organization. Experience with enterprise scale EDR, SIEM, and SOAR tools. Experience consuming, analyzing, and reporting Cyber Threat Intelligence for actionable takeaways Demonstrated ability to self-direct, with minimal supervision to achieve assigned goals. Beneficial but not required: Experience with offensive security tools and integration of SIEM, SOAR, CSPM and other technical integrations within large enterprise networks. Knowledge of basic Data Science concepts and processes. Experience performing security analysis and threat hunting in Cloud environments such as Azure, M365, AWS Skills: Application Development Automation Influence Solution Design Technical Strategy Development This job will be open and accepting applications for a minimum of seven days from the date it was posted. Shift: 1st shift (United States of America) Hours Per Week: 40 Pay Transparency details US - CO - Denver - 1144 15th St - Denver Gis (CO9926), US - DC - Washington - 1800 K St NW - 1800 K Street NW (DC1842), US - IL - Chicago - 540 W Madison St - Bank Of America Plaza (IL4540) Pay and benefits information Pay range $102,900.00 - $180,000.00 annualized salary, offers to be determined based on experience, education and skill set. Discretionary incentive eligible This role is eligible to participate in the annual discretionary plan. Employees are eligible for an annual discretionary award based on their overall individual performance results and behaviors, the performance and contributions of their line of business and/or group; and the overall success of the Company. Benefits This role is currently benefits eligible. We provide industry-leading benefits, access to paid time off, resources and support to our employees so they can make a genuine impact and contribute to the sustainable growth of our business and the communities we serve. Privacy Statement: https://careers.bankofamerica.com/en-us/privacy-notice At Bank of America, we are guided by a common purpose to help make financial lives better through the power of every connection. Responsible Growth is how we run our company and how we deliver for our clients, teammates, communities and shareholders every day. One of the keys to driving Responsible Growth is being a great place to work for our teammates around the world. We’re devoted to being a diverse and inclusive workplace for everyone. We hire individuals with a broad range of backgrounds and experiences and invest heavily in our teammates and their families by offering competitive benefits to support their physical, emotional, and financial well-being. Bank of America believes both in the importance of working together and offering flexibility to our employees. We use a multi-faceted approach for flexibility, depending on the various roles in our organization. Working at Bank of America will give you a great career with opportunities to learn, grow and make an impact, along with the power to make a difference. Join us! Partnering Locally Learn about some of the ways Bank of America is making a difference in the communities we serve. Global Impact Learn about the six areas that guide Bank of America’s efforts to help make financial lives better for customers, clients, communities and our teammates. Diversity and Inclusion Each employee brings unique skills, background and opinions. We see diversity and inclusion as our platform for innovation and a key component in our success. Our Values Learn about our four values that represent what we believe. Pay Transparency: https://careers.bankofamerica.com/en-us/pay-transparency
