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Principal Associate, Cyber Security Logging

Capital One senior full-time

Salary

$161,800 - $184,600 per year

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Description

We are seeking Cyber Security Professionals who are passionate about evaluating cyber capabilities, threat intelligence, and risk management to join our team. In this role, you’ll have the opportunity to be on the forefront of driving cybersecurity governance, capability maturation, and risk transformation across Capital One.

Responsibilities:

  • Work autonomously to assess needs, identify insights, and move actions forward with stakeholders to achieve targeted cybersecurity outcomes
  • Support the ongoing evaluation of cybersecurity capabilities, such as by determining effectiveness of capability implementation using the NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF)
  • Collaborate with stakeholders, Executives and LOB partners to understand their capabilities, maturation road-maps, and facilitate next steps
  • Leverage and enrich cybersecurity data from multiple data streams to produce new insights and analysis
  • Support the monitoring of cyber capabilities and track progress to maturity state objectives
  • Support improvements activities to program capabilities through the interpretation of technical issues and determination of root cause(s) of discovered weaknesses
  • Independently lead portions of capability or control assessments, ensuring findings are clearly documented and communicated to stakeholders
  • Develop and deliver risk and maturity reports tailored for both executive and technical audiences, highlighting trends and emerging issues
  • Coordinate cross-team efforts to align cybersecurity governance, metrics and reporting practices across multiple domains

Basic Qualifications:

  • Bachelor's Degree
  • At least 3 years of experience in cybersecurity or information technology
  • At least 2 years of experience evaluating, contributing to, or supporting development of cybersecurity capabilities
  • At least 2 years of experience working with Linux, Unix and Windows operating systems
  • At least 1 year of experience with public cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP)

Preferred Qualifications:

  • 3+ years of experience with cybersecurity frameworks and concepts such as NIST CSF, MITRE ATT&CK, CMMC, FedRAMP, etc.
  • 3+ years of experience performing analysis of or developing solutions for cyber threats, vulnerabilities, risks, or, events
  • 2+ years of experience working in multi-cloud environments
  • 2+ years of experience using security tools (Splunk, Crowdstrike, Qualys, or AWS Security Hub)
  • 1+ years of experience developing or interpreting cybersecurity metrics or dashboards
  • Demonstrated familiarity with industry governance or financial governance processes
  • Experience with risk management concepts, including identifying threats, assessing vulnerabilities, and recommending mitigation strategies.
  • Ability to perform security incident analysis and assist with resolution, translating technical findings into clear, actionable reports for technical and non-technical stakeholders
  • 2+ years of experience in enterprise data or logging strategy (defining schemas, configuring log production on applications, infrastructure, endpoints, data streaming, log consumption, and overall data architecture)
  • CISSP, GIAC, CISM, CCSP, CISA, CRISC, AWS Security, AWS Advanced Networking Specialty, or AWS Solutions Architect Certification

Salary Information: The minimum and maximum full-time annual salaries for this role are: McLean, VA: $161,800 - $184,600 for Principal Associate, Cyber Security Richmond, VA: $147,100 - $167,900 for Principal Associate, Cyber Security

Benefits: Capital One offers a comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial and other benefits that support your total well-being.

Skills

Required

Nice to have

  • NIST CSF
  • MITRE ATT&CK
  • CMMC
  • FedRAMP
  • Splunk
  • Crowdstrike
  • Qualys
  • AWS Security Hub

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