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M&T Bank · 9 hours ago

Lead Cybersecurity Operations Automation Engineer

Buffalo, NY

Full-time

Hybrid

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$116K/yr - $194K/yr

5+ years exp

M&T Bank is seeking a Lead Cybersecurity Operations Automation Engineer to design, develop, and maintain automated solutions to enhance the organization's security posture. This role focuses on streamlining security operations, improving incident response times, and reducing manual workloads through scripting, orchestration, and integration of security tools.

Financial Services

H1B Sponsor Likely

Hiring Manager

Jenna Bissonette

Responsibilities

Design and architect automated cybersecurity solutions for complex environments, ensuring alignment with organizational security objectives and scalability across diverse platforms

Develop and configure automated controls and workflows to enhance threat detection, response, and remediation capabilities while optimizing system performance and reliability

Lead testing and validation of security automation tools and scripts

Manage deployment of automation frameworks and orchestration platforms, ensuring minimal disruption to existing infrastructure and maximum operational efficiency

Define and implement tuning strategies for automated security processes, leveraging advanced analytics, AI, and machine learning techniques to reduce false positives and improve detection accuracy

Build and maintain automation playbooks and response scripts for incident handling, compliance enforcement, and routine security operations using tools like SOAR, SIEM, and EDR platforms

Drive collaboration between Cybersecurity, DevOps, and IT teams to embed security automation into CI/CD pipelines, cloud environments, and enterprise systems

Lead improvement initiatives within Cybersecurity team, implementing best practices and optimizing processes to enhance security capabilities

Actively partner with vendor to optimize security products and/or drive resolution of complex support issues

Assist leadership with vendor relationships by maintaining when licenses need to be renewed, informing when hardware needs to be refreshed or new technologies should be considered

Understand and adhere to the Company’s risk and regulatory standards, policies, and controls in accordance with the Company’s Risk Appetite. Design, implement, maintain, and enhance internal controls to mitigate risk on an ongoing basis. Identify risk-related issues needing escalation to management

Maintain M&T internal control standards, including timely implementation of internal and external audit points together with any issues raised by external regulators as applicable

Complete other related duties as assigned

Qualification

Automated cybersecurity solutionsPythonSOARSIEMEDR platformsCloud securityIncident responsePowerShellBashNetwork protocolsThreat intelligenceInfrastructure-as-codeIndirect leadershipData analysis

Required

Bachelor's degree and a minimum of 5 years' relevant work experience, or in lieu of a degree, a combined minimum of 9 years' higher education and/or work experience

Preferred

Advanced understanding of the security system development and infrastructure lifecycle and architecture, and systems design

Proficiency in Python, PowerShell, or Bash

Experience with SOAR, SIEM and EDR platforms

Knowledge of network protocols, threat intelligence, and incident response

Familiarity with cloud security and infrastructure-as-code tools

Experience integrating security tools with enterprise systems and CI/CD pipelines

Demonstrated ability to translate architecture into technical requirements

Strong ability to analyze and draw reliable conclusions based on large volumes of quantitative data from diverse sources

Ability effectively serves in indirect leadership role

Company

M&T Bank

Glassdoor3.6

Great companies have an enduring sense of purpose.

Founded in 1856

Buffalo, New York, US

10001+ employees

http://www.mtb.com

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