Senior Lead, Software Engineering - Cyber Engineering

Center 3 (19075), United States of America, McLean, Virginia

Senior Lead, Software Engineering - Cyber Engineering

Do you love building and pioneering in the technology space? Do you enjoy solving complex business problems in a fast-paced, collaborative, inclusive, and iterative delivery environment? At Capital One, you'll be part of a big group of makers, breakers, doers and disruptors, who love to solve real problems and meet real customer needs.

As a Senior Lead Software Engineer in our Cyber Engineering organization, you will play a key role in protecting Capital one's Global infrastructure from ever changing cybersecurity threats. We manage one of the largest SIEM platforms that handles billions of events every hour across disparate data sources, with new data sources being identified on a regular basis. In addition, we manage all the systems that leverage that data. We work in a wide variety of technologies to support this massive ecosystem that captures billions of events per hour, filters them, indexes them to our data stores that powers Cyber threat detection. And to do that, you'll help in analyzing, designing, developing and delivering solutions built to stop adversaries and strengthen our operations by closely partnering with Product managers, SOC analysts and Insider threat groups. You'll use your leadership skills to give guidance, best practice advice and support across all our business and technology groups. You'll keep Sr leadership, Enterprise partners and stakeholders in the loop to ensure awareness of progress, risks and issues to facilitate quick decision making.

Additionally, as a Senior Lead Software Engineer of the cyber engineering team, you will be mentoring junior engineers and helping them to grow their skills in all aspects of the software development lifecycle to deliver solid and scalable solutions. Plus you will assist as needed with technical responses to various cyber incidents impacting the organization, advise on strategic initiatives, programs, and projects to create business value in an agile manner.

What You'll Do:

• Architect, Engineer, implement, and/or administer SIEM solutions in a highly available, redundant, distributed computing environment
• Create technical documentation including SOP's and design documents related to system configurations, process, procedure, and knowledge base articles
• Perform gap analyses of the processes supporting and technologies within the SIEM and document findings, recommended corrective actions with impact analyses
• Support the overall cyber security engineering team in managing scope, cost, schedule, risks, SLAs, KPIs, OLAs, and deliverables while adhering to staffing and budgeting requirements
• Drive the operational implementation of monitoring capabilities, dashboards, and improvement
• Provide production and infrastructure support, root cause analysis, troubleshooting, health monitoring, etc
• Be able to step in, evaluate various different technology stacks and inform teams, peers and senior leadership on the right solution
• Write, design, code, test, implement, and debug programs adhering to corporate requirements and standards.
• Possess experience with cloud orchestration tools and a strong understanding of Amazon Web Services cloud
• Perform application testing and validation, programming, and documentation

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree
• At least 8 years of professional software engineering experience (Internship experience does not apply)
• At least 1 year experience with cloud computing (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's Degree
• 9 years of experience in at least one of the following: Java, Scala, Python, Go, or Node.js
• 8 years of IT experience as an engineer, architect, or system administrator within a large scale, mission critical, enterprise environment
• 5 years experience with distributed data computing tools (MapReduce, Hadoop, Hive, EMR, Kafka, Spark, or MySQL)
• 3 years of experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or another cloud service
• 4 years of experience in open source frameworks
• 1 years of people management experience
• 2 years of experience in Agile practices
• Experience with UNIX/Linux including basic commands and shell scripting
• Experience architecting, engineering, implementing, and/or administering SIEM solutions

Capital One will consider sponsoring a new qualified applicant for employment authorization for this position.

Capital One offers a comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial and other benefits that support your total well-being. Learn more at the Capital One Careers website . Eligibility varies based on full or part-time status, exempt or non-exempt status, and management level.

No agencies please. Capital One is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, color, age, national origin, religion, physical and mental disability, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity/assignment, citizenship, pregnancy or maternity, protected veteran status, or any other status prohibited by applicable national, federal, state or local law. Capital One promotes a drug-free workplace. Capital One will consider for employment qualified applicants with a criminal history in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable laws regarding criminal background inquiries, including, to the extent applicable, Article 23-A of the New York Correction Law; San Francisco, California Police Code Article 49, Sections 4901-4920; New York City's Fair Chance Act; Philadelphia's Fair Criminal Records Screening Act; and other applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations regarding criminal background inquiries.

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