Senior Cyber Security Engineer .
Ally and Your Career
The Opportunity
At Ally, you get a startup feel, but experience the benefits of a company that’s worked out the kinks and is fulfilling its purpose. We’re always evolving and see that as a good thing. From owning our work to seeing its impact in the real world, our team is relentless in finding new ways technology can help make experiences better and help people. We are problem solvers, we value diverse thinking, we support one another, and we challenge ourselves to think bigger in the journey to deliver customer-obsessed tech solutions. To read more about what our tech team does, be sure to visit our tech blog at ally.tech
We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated engineer to support our Cyber Security Platform Performance Engineering team. This role demands a blend of technical expertise, and a proactive approach to support our cybersecurity infrastructure, applications and services ensuring the reliability and security of our environments.
The Work Itself
- Develop and maintain automation scripts to support metrics collection, reporting and dashboard creation
- Assist in implementing and reporting around operations, monitoring, patch management, and lifecycle management
- Collaborate with other cyber security engineering teams to define, automate (self-service), and implement key operations metric’s, KPI’s and dashboard
- Responsible for observability to monitor performance and security through metrics, traces and logs. Help to define observability and monitoring metrics such as SLO’s (Service Level objectives) and SLI’s (Service Level Indicators), working toward eliminating inefficiencies through automation and process improvement
- Assist in resolving production incidents, escalations, and reporting (RCA’s)
The Skills You Bring
- 3+ years of experience in reliability engineering, with a focus on SLOs, SLIs, error budgeting, and eliminating toil. Solid experience with incident management, including response, diagnosis, escalation, and reporting, is required
- 3-5+ years of AWS experience (IAC, performance engineering, testing, automation)
- Experience in operations, lifecycle management, patch management, configuration management, release, and QA engineering / automation
- Expertise in observability tools and techniques for monitoring metrics, traces, and logs
- Proficiency in automation using scripting languages such as GoLang, Python, and PowerShell
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines and tools such as GitLab
- Familiarity with monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, and the ELK Stack
- Experience with cyber security tools such as firewalls, intrusion prevention (IPS), web application firewalls (WAF), network access control (NAC), endpoint detection and response (EDR), eMail security, and/or data loss prevention (DLP)
How We'll Have Your Back
Ally's compensation program offers market-competitive base pay and pay-for-performance incentives (bonuses) based on achieving personal and company goals. Our Total Rewards program includes industry-leading compensation and benefits plus additional incentives that are designed to meet your needs and those of your family so you can get the most out of your career and your life, including:
- Time Away: 11 paid holidays, 20 paid time off days, and 8 hours of volunteer time off, yearly (paid time off is prorated based on start date)
- Planning for the Future: plan for the near and long term with an industry-leading 401K retirement savings plan with matching and company contributions, student loan pay downs and 529 educational save up assistance programs, tuition reimbursement, employee stock purchase plan, and financial learning center and financial coach access.
- Supporting your Health & Well-being: flexible health and insurance options including medical, dental and vision, employee, spouse and child life insurance, short- and long-term disability, pre-tax Health Savings Account with employer contributions, Healthcare FSA, critical illness, accident & hospital indemnity insurance, and a total well-being program that helps you and your family stay on track physically, socially, emotionally, and financially.
- Building a Family: adoption, surrogacy and fertility assistance as well as paid parental and caregiver leave, Dependent Day Care FSA back-up child and adult/elder care days and childcare discounts.
- Work-Life Integration: other benefits including Mentally Fit Employee Assistance Program, subsidized and discounted Weight Watchers® program and other employee discount programs.
- Other compensations: depending on the role for which you are considered, you may be eligible for travel allowances, relocation assistance, a signing bonus and/or equity.
- To view more detailed information about Ally’s Total Rewards, please visit this link: https://www.ally.com/content/dam/pdf/corporate/ally-total-rewards-snapshot.pdf
Who We Are:
Ally Financial is a customer-centric, leading digital financial services company with passionate customer service and innovative financial solutions. We are relentlessly focused on "Doing it Right" and being a trusted financial-services provider to our consumer, commercial, and corporate customers. For more information, visit www.ally.com.
Ally is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, sex, religion, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy status, marital status, military or veteran status, genetic disposition or any other reason protected by law.
We are committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to applicants with physical or mental disabilities. For accommodation requests, email us at work@ally.com. Ally will not discriminate against any qualified individual who is capable of performing the essential functions of the job with or without reasonable accommodation.