Western Alliance Bank · 2 months ago
Principal Engineer I - Cyber Resilience Engineer
Dallas, TX
Full-time
Onsite
Lead/Staff
8+ years expWestern Alliance Bank is a wholly owned subsidiary of Western Alliance Bancorporation, and they are seeking a Cyber Resilience Engineer responsible for developing strategies to enhance the bank's ability to withstand disruptive cyber events. The role involves supporting the Business Continuity Management program, improving operational resilience, and leading governance of the overall cyber resilience initiatives.
BankingFinanceFinancial Services
Responsibilities
Develop and manage cyber resilience initiatives aligned with FFIEC, NIST, and other relevant standards, integrating with business continuity efforts to define strategic goals and success metrics
Coordinate development of annual cyber resilience program objectives and schedules for annual recovery playbook maintenance and update, exercises, independent review and validation
Support impact assessments for emerging technologies (e.g., AI, zero trust, hybrid cloud) on cyber resilience
Partner with Business Continuity teammates to assess business function-level preparedness proactively, develop contingency plans, and implement mitigation strategies
Supports high-profile incident response and recovery activities for business or technology disruptions, including those caused by cyber-attacks, natural disaster, man-made disaster, and other crises scenarios
Develops and updates process maps for resiliency management activities that reflect the department’s efforts to identify, protect, detect, respond, and recover from potential cyber threats and maintain situational awareness
Lead comprehensive testing programs including cyber incident response and ransomware simulations into business continuity (BC), disaster recovery (DR), and other key Information Security partners, while identifying gaps and reporting outcomes
Establish governance methodologies, KPIs, and dashboards to monitor resilience posture, partnering with other leaders across the organization
Analyze a variety of data and summarize findings in applicable reports or other communication mediums
Utilize data to identify areas of improvement and opportunities for growth
Oversee program using industry best practices to set objectives, define scope, build roadmaps, and create detailed project timelines and plans to ensure alignment with organizational goals and oversee the execution from inception to delivery
Qualification
Required
8+ years of related experience in IT--Security or similar field
Bachelor's degree in related field required; Masters or MBA in related field preferred
Advanced knowledge of general Financial Services or Banking is preferred
Knowledge of applicable regulatory and legal compliance obligations, rules and regulations, industry standards and practices
Deep experience with and understanding of load balancers, DNS, SMTP, etc. for troubleshooting application functionality
Experience with collocated datacenter, disaster recovery, and redundant network designs and architecture
Experience gathering operational reports on utilization, capacity, performance and anomalies to drive improvements
Expert speaking and writing communication skills
CLOUD TECHNOLOGY - Azure or AWS Certification(s) required
CYBER SECURITY - 1 or more of the following required: Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH), Certified Information Security Manager (CISM), Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA), CompTIA Security+, Offensive Security Certified Professional (OSCP), GIAC Security Essentials (GSEC), GIAC Certified Incident Handler (GCIH), Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP), Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC)
GENERIC COMPUTING - 1 or more of the following required: CompTIA A+, CompTIA Linux+, CompTIA Network+, Comptia Server+, CompTIA IT Fundamentals, Microsoft Certified: Identity and Access Administrator Associate, Microsoft Certified: Security, Compliance, and Identity Fundamentals, Microsoft Certified: Windows Server Hybrid Administrator Associate, Microsoft Certified: Azure Network Engineer Associate, RHCSA, RHCE, RHCS - Linux Performance Tuning, RHCS-Identity Management, RHCS-Linux Diagnostics and Troubleshooting, RHCS-Developing automation with Ansible
Strong process and project management skills with the ability to improve process efficiency and effectiveness
Preferred
Previous leadership experience preferred
Advanced to expert understanding and experience working with downstream business-critical processes that are dependent on the availability and reliability of data, designing new (and refactor existing) cyber defense, auditing, and access platforms through scaling, service reliability requirements and problem management
Advanced to expert understanding and experience working 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
Advanced to expert experience or knowledge of 2 or more of the following: NIST of MITRE (and the administration of either or any IT Automation platform), SOAR, Firewall, IAM platform, SIEM, or cloud cyber defense platform
Act as a thought leader on cyber resilience trends and industry best practices
Professional certifications (e.g., CBCP, CCRP, A/CCRF) expected
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Company
Western Alliance Bank
Western Alliance Bank is a banking firm that offers commercial and business banking solutions.
Founded in 1994Phoenix, Arizona, USA
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$400M2025-11-19Post Ipo Debt· $400M
2005-06-30IPO
Leadership Team
Tim Boothe
Chief Operating Officer
Barbara Kennedy
CHRO, EVP
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