Staff Engineer I - Cyber, Threat and Vulnerability Management

Western Alliance Bank • Phoenix, AZ

1d • Onsite

About The Position

Western Alliance Bank is seeking a passionate, experienced, and results-driven Cyber Engineer to help engineer, operationalize, and continuously mature a scalable, risk-based Threat & Vulnerability Management (TVM) program across hybrid environments, including on-premises infrastructure, cloud platforms, containerized workloads, and CI/CD pipelines. This role will collaborate with internal business partners and IT Tower Leads to proactively address ongoing vulnerability and configuration hardening issues to ensure rapid resolution. In this role you will foster a collaborative environment with focus on continuous mitigation and mitigation of cyber vulnerabilities. You'll be accountable to proactively recommend improvements to established processes while continuing to deliver high value in execution. You'll also create and deliver comprehensive project plans as well as remove any impediments, track overall project performance, specifically to analyze the successful completion of business short-term and long-term goals. As a Staff Engineer I – Cyber, Threat & Vulnerability Management, you will serve as a hands-on technical leader responsible for building, integrating, and automating vulnerability discovery, prioritization, remediation workflows, and security guardrails. This role partners closely with Cyber Defense, Cloud Engineering, Infrastructure, DevOps, Application, and Platform teams to reduce enterprise risk through measurable, engineering-led outcomes while operating within established governance and risk frameworks. Proactively identify and fix issues to improve backend service scalability, resiliency, and fault tolerance. Respond to computer viruses/bugs in a timely manner alongside engineers. Respond to audit inquiries and ensure processes and procedures are within regulatory guidelines. Foster the highest level of software engineering practices and follow relevant company procedures, in addition to being held accountable for relevant documentation. Actively participate in and lead all aspects of the software engineering process. Revisit architecture design routinely with vendor and peers to either or all: minimize cost, optimize performance, scale, and meet new requirements.

Requirements

• 5+ years of related experience in IT--Security, IT--App Support, IT--Development or similar field.
• Bachelor's degree in related field required.
• Advanced experience with and knowledge of Linux, Python, PowerShell, SIEM and Bash.
• Solid understanding of authentication protocols SAML, SSO, and LDAP.
• Solid understanding of concepts regarding SIEM, SOAR, Firewall, Proxies, SSL/TLS, Secure Mail Gateways, Application Firewalls, NAC, Vulnerability Scanners, and EDR.
• Intermediate to advanced experience with logging infrastructure concepts: syslog; log parsing; log de-duping; methods for log pulling; RFC 5424; CEF Format; JSON; key value pair format; log enrichment; log maintenance; log troubleshooting.
• Solid understanding of load balancers, DNS, SMTP, etc. for troubleshooting application functionality.
• Advanced experience of NIST, MITRE and Administration of either or all of an IT Automation platform, SOAR, Firewall, IAM platform, SIEM, cloud cyber defense platform etc.
• Advanced speaking and writing communication skills.

Nice To Haves

• Previous leadership experience preferred.
• Intermediate knowledge of general Financial Services or Banking is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Engineer, operationalize, and continuously mature a scalable, risk-based Threat & Vulnerability Management (TVM) program across hybrid environments.
• Collaborate with internal business partners and IT Tower Leads to proactively address ongoing vulnerability and configuration hardening issues.
• Foster a collaborative environment with focus on continuous mitigation and mitigation of cyber vulnerabilities.
• Proactively recommend improvements to established processes.
• Create and deliver comprehensive project plans.
• Remove any impediments and track overall project performance.
• Serve as a hands-on technical leader responsible for building, integrating, and automating vulnerability discovery, prioritization, remediation workflows, and security guardrails.
• Partner closely with Cyber Defense, Cloud Engineering, Infrastructure, DevOps, Application, and Platform teams to reduce enterprise risk.
• Proactively identify and fix issues to improve backend service scalability, resiliency, and fault tolerance.
• Respond to computer viruses/bugs in a timely manner.
• Respond to audit inquiries and ensure processes and procedures are within regulatory guidelines.
• Foster the highest level of software engineering practices and follow relevant company procedures.
• Actively participate in and lead all aspects of the software engineering process.
• Revisit architecture design routinely with vendor and peers to either or all: minimize cost, optimize performance, scale, and meet new requirements.

Benefits

• Competitive salaries
• Ownership stake in the company
• Medical and dental insurance
• Time off
• Great 401k matching program
• Tuition assistance program
• Employee volunteer program
• Wellness program
• Opportunity to bolster business knowledge, learning the ins and outs of how successful companies operate and manage their finances, giving you invaluable hands-on experience to help grow your career!

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior