Cyber Security Associate II (Hybrid or Remote Work)

Position Overview:

This position will integrate into a tight-knit team of five that equitably shares strategic, creative, and repetitive tasks alike.  The team makes predictions about cyber criminal behavior and potential future activities based on what is already known about specific actors or tactics; they often get visibility at the highest levels within the company, but also inform a large audience in the broader IT department as well. They build on the team’s awareness of current cyber security trends and threats (obtained from open source intelligence feeds) that provide context to the tailored needs of Freddie Mac enterprise assets and the financial industry at large.  Growing beyond these tasks, this team member sill be able to identify proactive threat hunting areas for analysis, participate in annual threat scenario exercises, maximize the use of our threat intelligence platform tool, and offer insights into how we can mature the team, its standard procedures, and how it perpetuates the intelligence collection cycle.  Full team integration for this position requires a collaborative outlook and a proactive effort to initiate tasks and reach out for help when needed.

Duties include:

• Reporting vulnerabilities to the appropriate internal partners

• Helping monitor daily threat activity by researching indicators of compromise (IoCs) on Freddie Mac networks

• Capturing analysis of IoCs in documentation

• Partnering with incident response and operations center teams to support ongoing investigations

• Authoring weekly and daily reports on cyber threat trends affecting the financial industry

• Drafting two-page tactical, strategic, and phishing reports on an ad hoc basis. 

Our Impact:

The Cyber Threat Intelligence team’s primary responsibility is to utilize open source intelligence to identify, communicate, and mitigate threats before they can impact our network infrastructure or users.

Your Impact:

The selected candidate will be a key member of a small team of dedicated analysts utilizing open source intelligence to protect Freddie Mac’s network.

Qualifications:

• 1+ years of Information Security or Cyber Security experience

• Associates or Bachelor’s degree in Information Security, Computer Science, Information Technology, related field or equivalent work experience

• Due to the sheer amount of reporting in the position, concise word choice, grammar, and overall communication and writing skills are essential for success

• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail are crucial

• Critical thinking skills, knowledge of research methodologies and how to formally source materials

• Having an analytical aptitude and adversarial mindset (i.e. what would an attacker do?)

• Basic understanding  of cloud security terms, OSI model layer technologies and attack tactics and techniques is preferred.

• Packet-level analysis is likewise not required to perform the duties of this position but can inform writings on specific topics

• Professional security or other technical certificates are a good way to prove familiarity with technical subject matter expertise but are not required

Keys to Success in this Role:

• Ability to work well in a collaborative small group environment

• Adhere to tight deadlines

• Accurate defensible analysis skills are a must

• Concise word choice, grammar, and overall communication and writing skills

Current Freddie Mac employees please apply through the internal career site.

Today, Freddie Mac makes home possible for one in four home borrowers and is one of the largest sources of financing for multifamily housing. Join our smart, creative and dedicated team and you’ll do important work for the housing finance system and make a difference in the lives of others.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We will ensure that individuals with differing abilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

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Time-type:Full time

FLSA Status:Non-Exempt

Freddie Mac offers a comprehensive total rewards package to include competitive compensation and market-leading benefit programs. Information on these benefit programs is available on our Careers site.

This position has an annualized market-based salary range of $72,000 - $108,000 and is eligible to participate in the annual incentive program. The final salary offered will generally fall within this range and is dependent on various factors including but not limited to the responsibilities of the position, experience, skill set, internal pay equity and other relevant qualifications of the applicant.