Description

Job Description:

Job title: Cloud Security Analyst

Corp title: Up to VP

Location: Chester/Dublin

Company overview

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 an 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.

Bank of America is committed to an in-office culture with specific requirements for office-based attendance and which allows for an appropriate level of flexibility for our teammates and businesses based on role-specific considerations.

At Bank of America, you can build a successful career with opportunities to learn, grow, and make an impact. Join us!

Location Overview:

Dublin
Our Central Park office in Leopardstown, boasts modern facilities based in Dublin's premium business park. With an onsite gym and staff restaurant, all your daily needs are conveniently catered for. Travel options include the LUAS network and the Central Park shuttle service between Dublin City Centre and Central Park. We also provide tax saver tickets as part of our award-winning benefits package, which means getting to work has never been so easy.

Chester

Find us in the city of Chester, a destination renowned for its culture, history, and beauty. Working at Bank of America Chester offers a far-reaching global career for a world-renowned organisation, whilst being ideally situated against the backdrop of the rolling North Wales hills and the banks of the serene River Dee.

Job Description:
We are seeking a skilled and motivated Cloud Security Analyst to join our cybersecurity team. This role focuses on proactively identifying, analyzing, and mitigating security threats and alerts across cloud-native environments (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS). The ideal candidate will have a deep knowledge of cloud security principles, hands-on experience cloud security monitoring tools, and a good understanding of security threats to cloud environments. Expectation of weekend shift work and on-call for this role.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for providing AWS and Azure Cloud event monitoring, dispositioning of cases and escalation to designated control partners
• Update documentation as new changes occur in the environment or tooling.
• Tune existing alerts to remove false positives.
• The ability to understand and articulate current threats against cloud environments including AWS, Azure, and GCP.
• Monitoring for suspicious AI utilization and jailbreak attempts.
• Utilize Splunk and Log Analytics for viewing cloud logs related to AWS and Azure cloud environments.
• Triage and report critical cloud vulnerabilities.
• Good awareness of information security operations and/or enterprise information technology (Enterprise data management, application development, network management)

What we are looking for :

• Strong experience in Cyber Security, Incident Response, or related field.
• Experience using splunk in security investigations.
• Knowledge of Azure Security Center, AWS Cloud Security Hub, or Google Cloud Security
• Experience working with incident response teams, vulnerability managers, threat intelligence researchers, Red/Purple teams, and/or HUNT researchers.
• A broad knowledge of information security principles and security capabilities
• Understanding of configuration management, orchestration, and automation tools, such as Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, Chef, SaltStack, or Packer.
• Basic familiarity with common Information Security and data protection frameworks and standards (i.e. CIS, NIST, MITRE, ITIL, HIPAA, GDPR, PCI DSSS, ISO 270001).

Skills that will help:

• CISSP/CCSP/CISM
• Cloud specific Security certifications such as SANS/GIAC
• Vendor specific and relevant certifications - AZ-500, SC-200, AZ-204, CKA, CKS, RHCE, etc
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Cyber Security, or related experience.

• Leadership competency in geographically diverse matrixed environment.
• Relevant Cyber Security Certificate
• Worked in SOC environment before
• Familiarity with Cyber Security and Information Technology.
• Strong problem-solving and critical thinking skills.
• Effective communication and interpersonal skills.

Benefits of working at Bank of America:
UK

• At Bank of America, we strive to prioritise employees' health and wellbeing - it's what makes us a Great Place to Work.
• Private healthcare for you and your family plus an annual health screen to help you manage your physical wellness with the option to purchase a screen for your partner.
• Competitive pension plan, life assurance and group income protection cover if you become unable to work as a result of a disability or health reasons.
• We offer 26-weeks paid maternity leave, 16-weeks paid paternity leave and inclusive family leave arrangements for working parents and carers including 20 days of back-up childcare including access to school holiday clubs and 20 days of back-up adult care per annum.
• 20 days of back-up childcare including access to school holiday clubs and 20 days of back-up adult care per annum.
• The ability to change your core benefits as well as the option of selecting a variety of flexible benefits to suit your personal circumstances including access to a wellbeing account, travel insurance, critical illness, cycle to work etc.
• Access to free counselling through the Employee Assistance Program and virtual GP services through our private health care plan.
• Access to an Employee Assistance Program for confidential support and help for everyday matters.
  Ability to donate to charities of your choice directly through payroll and the bank will match your contribution.
• Opportunity to access our Arts & Culture corporate membership program and receive discounted entry to some of the UK's most iconic cultural institutions and exhibitions.
• Opportunity to give back to your community, develop new skills and work with new groups of people by volunteering in your local community.

Ireland

• At Bank of America, we strive to prioritise employees' health and wellbeing - it's what makes us a Great Place to Work.
• Private healthcare for you and your family plus an annual health screen to help you manage your physical wellness with the option to purchase a screen for your partner.
• Competitive pension plan, life assurance and group income protection cover if you become unable to work as a result of a disability or health reasons.
• We offer 26-weeks paid maternity leave, 16-weeks paid paternity leave and inclusive family leave arrangements for working parents and carers including 20 days of back-up childcare including access to school holiday clubs and 20 days of back-up adult care per annum.
• The ability to change your core benefits as well as the option of selecting a variety of flexible benefits to suit your personal circumstances including access to a wellbeing account, travel insurance, critical illness, cycle to work, TaxSaver tickets etc.
• Access to an Employee Assistance Program for confidential support and help for everyday matters.
• Access to free counselling through the Employee Assistance Program and virtual GP services through our private health care plan.
• Ability to donate to charities of your choice and the bank will match your contribution.
• Opportunity to access our Arts & Culture corporate membership program and receive discounted entry to some of Ireland's most iconic cultural institutions and exhibitions.
• Opportunity to give back to your community, develop new skills and work with new groups of people by volunteering in your local community.

Bank of America:

Good conduct and sound judgment is crucial to our long term success. It's important that all employees in the organisation understand the expected standards of conduct and how we manage conduct risk. Individual accountability and an ownership mind-set are the cornerstones of our Code of Conduct and are at the heart of managing risk well.

We are an equal opportunities employer and ensure that no applicant is subject to less favourable treatment on the grounds of sex, gender identity or gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, race, religion or belief, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origins, age, sexual orientation, pregnancy or maternity, socio-economic background, responsibility for dependants or physical or mental disability. The Bank selects candidates for interview based on their skills, qualifications and experience.

We strive to ensure that our recruitment processes are accessible for all candidates and encourage any candidates to tell us about any adjustment requirements.