Western Alliance Bank · 9 hours ago
Principal Engineer III - Cyber
Phoenix, AZ
Full-time
Onsite
Lead/Staff
12+ years expWestern Alliance Bank is a wholly owned subsidiary of Western Alliance Bancorporation, focused on providing financial services. The Principal Engineer III - Cyber is responsible for ensuring that operational designs and technology meet cybersecurity standards, engaging with project teams, and driving security and resiliency goals across the bank's technology and security infrastructure.
BankingFinanceFinancial Services
Responsibilities
Engage with business and IT project teams to enforce security standards, offer solutions to applicable security risks and ensure resiliency is built into new project or applications design, engineering, and implementations
Engage with the Information Technology Risk Committee to review and opine on requested exceptions and risk acceptance rationale
Actively drive security, data privacy, business continuity and disaster recovery resiliency goals in project and product deployments as part of project teams and Architectural Standard Board
Provide oversight, review and approval of technology readiness checklist as a member of the Technical Review Board
Drive technical discussions, review and approve control evidence during the CRI Cybersecurity assessment process
Work within the CISO team as technical expert during risk control inventory and risk control self-assessment and control testing
Perform annual Swift and Fedline self-assessment and attestation processes according to industry requirements
Coordinate with SRC compliance to respond to external partner/investor security inquiries
Maintain the mapping of threat and control relationships within MITRE Attack framework
Contributes to the continual development and supports of information security policies and standards
Supports organizations requirements for evidence and control testing during internal and external audit and Federal Reserve examinations
Supports team in the management of security measures and controls over existing operating systems including configuration management, and CIS Standards
Contribute to the development and refinement of key risk indicators and metrics to measure the effectiveness of the cyber security program
Qualification
Required
12 + years of experience in Information Technology or Security in a large-scale Fortune 100 financial services and or $100B + asset size bank
Bachelor's degree in related field required; Masters or MBA in related field preferred
Extensive background in technology infrastructure and architecture, design and engineering with a focus on Security and Operational Resiliency and risk mitigation techniques
Experience with identity and access, application security, and data protection technologies controls and safeguards
Expert understanding that downstream business-critical processes are dependent on the availability and reliability of data, designs new (and refactors existing) cyber defense, auditing, and access platforms to meet growth by scaling, service reliability requirements and problem management
Knowledge of applicable regulatory and legal compliance obligations, rules and regulations, industry standards and practices
Expert experience or knowledge of 4 or more of the following: NIST, MITRE, any IT Automation platform, SOAR, Firewall, IAM platform, SIEM, or cloud cyber defense platform
Experience gathering operational reports on utilization, capacity, performance and anomalies to drive improvements
Experience in data networking, authentication, Azure / AWS cloud management, vulnerability and CIS compliance management, web application firewalls, network segmentation/zoning, load balancing
Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to assess complex situations and develop effective solutions
Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence and collaborate with stakeholders at all levels
Strong leadership and project management skills, with experience leading cross-functional teams
Combination of Cloud Technology, Generic Computing, and Cyber Security certifications
Preferred
Masters or MBA in related field preferred
Advanced knowledge of general Financial Services or Banking is preferred
Benefits
Competitive salaries
An ownership stake in the company
Medical and dental insurance
Time off
A great 401k matching program
Tuition assistance program
An employee volunteer program
A 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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