Cyber Security Engineer III

First Citizens Bank•Raleigh, NC

2d•Remote

About The Position

This role ensures the technological and digital security of the Bank through strong technical expertise. It mitigates exposure to cyber threats, security risks, and unauthorized access; assesses networks, applications, and systems for vulnerabilities; and protects assets and information using a variety of methods. The position resolves security issues or incidents and maintains knowledge of industry practices, technology, and evolving threats to enhance defenses for the Bank’s information systems and resources. It may oversee less experienced associates. The role also focuses on data engineering and analytics. It involves understanding business requirements and existing system designs, working with subject-matter experts to understand processes and requirements, organizing and accelerating data for analysis, supporting data curation, creating tools for analytics and data science teams, and collaborating with data and analytics experts to improve data systems. The position communicates data findings through analysis and visualization, maintains documentation, and participates in hands-on development with onsite and offsite leads and engineers. The role can be hired remotely in NC, AZ, VA, and TX.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree and 6 years of experience, or high school diploma or GED/equivalent and 10 years of experience in Systems Engineering, Network, or Information Security.

Nice To Haves

7+ years of experience building data engineering pipelines on on-premise and cloud platforms, including Snowflake and AWS.
7+ years of experience developing Python-based data applications for data ingestion, transformation, and visualizations such as Plotly and Streamlit.
Strong experience programming or scripting in Python, PySpark, and SQL, and building resilient data pipelines, automations, and observability.
Knowledge of cybersecurity, IT infrastructure, and software concepts.
5+ years of hands-on experience with cloud data engineering, data lakes, distributed computing, and data processing.
3+ years of experience developing data visualizations using Tableau, Plotly, Streamlit, or PowerBI.
Experience with ELT/ETL tools such as DBT, DataBahn, Airflow, Cribl, Glue, FiveTran, or AirByte.
Experience capturing incremental data changes and with streaming data ingestion and stream processing.
Experience with processes supporting data governance, data structures, and metadata management.
Solid grasp of data and analytics concepts and methodologies, including data science, data engineering, and data storytelling.

Responsibilities

Understand business requirements, existing system designs, security applications, and guidelines.
Work with subject-matter experts to understand business process flows, functional requirements, existing-system challenges and constraints, and future expectations.
Streamline sourcing and organization of data from a wide variety of sources using Python, PySpark, SQL, and Spark, and accelerate data for analysis.
Support data curation by feeding data catalogs and knowledge bases.
Create data tools for analytics and data science team members to help build and optimize data products for consumption.
Work with data and analytics experts to improve functionality in data systems.
Articulate data findings using data science, advanced statistical analysis, visualization tools, and written and oral communication.
Manage technical, analytical, and business documentation on data efforts.
Engage in hands-on development and work with onsite and offsite leads and engineers.
Mitigate exposure to cyber threats, security risks, and unauthorized access; assess networks, applications, or systems for vulnerabilities; and resolve security issues or incidents.