Western Alliance Bank · 21 hours ago
Insider Risk Engineer - Cyber
Phoenix, AZ
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
6+ years expWestern Alliance Bank is a wholly owned subsidiary of Western Alliance Bancorporation, focused on providing financial services. The Insider Risk Engineer - Cyber will manage threat detection and security audit solutions, collaborating with various teams to enhance the bank's insider risk program and ensure compliance with regulatory guidelines.
BankingFinanceFinancial Services
Responsibilities
Proactively identify and fix issues to improve backend service scalability, resiliency, and fault tolerance. Respond to insider risk events of interest in a timely manner alongside team members and key stakeholders. Respond to audit inquiries and ensure processes and procedures are within regulatory guidelines
Foster the highest level of engineering practices and follow relevant company procedures, in addition to being held accountable for relevant documentation
Design and implement advanced detection logic to surface subtle behavioral anomalies indicative of insider risk across diverse data sources
Continuously refine and tune Insider Risk policies to reduce false positives and improve signal-to-noise ratio in alerting workflows
Engineer scalable data pipelines to ingest, normalize, and correlate identity, access, and activity data for risk modeling
Collaborate with security monitoring, threat intelligence and modeling teams to incorporate contextual enrichment and behavioral baselines into Insider Risk analytics
Prototype and evaluate emerging technologies (e.g., ML models, graph analytics) to enhance Insider Risk detection capabilities
Revisit Insider Risk tooling architecture design routinely with vendor and peers to either or all: minimize cost, optimize performance, scale, and meet new requirements
Qualification
Required
6+ years of related experience in IT--Security, IT--App Support, IT--Development or similar field
Bachelor's degree in related field required
Advanced knowledge of general Financial Services or Banking
Advanced to expert 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
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
Hands-on experience deploying and operating a User & Entity Behavioral Analytics (UEBA) platform in a mid-large sized corporation, preferably in Financial Services
Expertise building Application Program Interfaces (APIs) from source systems of record to bring technical and non-technical indicators into the UEBA
Intermediate - Advanced ability to query and extract data from security monitoring systems (e.g., SIEM, EDR, NDR, etc.) for performing Insider Risk analysis
Experience correlating UEBA signals with identity, access, and data movement logs to detect anomalous behavior
Familiarity with government and industry best practice frameworks for managing Insider Risk (e.g., Carnegie Mellon, SIFMA, MITRE, NIST, etc.)
Ability to translate behavioral indicators into risk scoring models and escalation thresholds
Experience working cross-functionally with Legal, HR, and Compliance teams to investigate and respond to Insider Risk cases
Advanced speaking and writing communication skills
Preferred
Previous leadership experience
Advanced knowledge of general Financial Services or Banking
Benefits
Medical and dental insurance
Time off
Great 401k matching program
Tuition assistance program
Employee volunteer program
Wellness program
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
Chief Human Resources Officer
Recent News
2025-12-12
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