Cybersecurity Ops Technologist, Threat Intelligence

Who Are We?

Taking care of our customers, our communities and each other. That’s the Travelers Promise. By honoring this commitment, we have maintained our reputation as one of the best property casualty insurers in the industry for over 160 years. Join us to discover a culture that is rooted in innovation and thrives on collaboration. Imagine loving what you do and where you do it.

Job Category

Technology

Compensation Overview

The annual base salary range provided for this position is a nationwide market range and represents a broad range of salaries for this role across the country. The actual salary for this position will be determined by a number of factors, including the scope, complexity and location of the role; the skills, education, training, credentials and experience of the candidate; and other conditions of employment. As part of our comprehensive compensation and benefits program, employees are also eligible for performance-based cash incentive awards.

Salary Range

$96,400.00 - $159,100.00

Target Openings

1

What Is the Opportunity?

Cybersecurity Operations is responsible for the identification, protection, detection, response and disruption of cybersecurity events across Travelers through critical analysis, threat intelligence gathering, and agile cybersecurity techniques to assess, support, and resolve cyber incidents. As a Cybersecurity Ops Technologist I, you will perform complex activities that impact the timely detection, identification, alerting and response of possible complex attacks, intrusions, anomalous activities, and misuse activities and distinguish these incidents and events from benign activities.
The ideal candidate for this role will have a passion for cybersecurity, a hacker mindset and be self-motivated for continuous learning.

What Will You Do?

• Provide actionable intelligence to support cyber incident response and risk mitigation efforts.
• Analyze identified malicious activity to determine weaknesses exploited, exploitation methods, effects on system and information.
• Perform "last line of defense" threat triage and containment.
• Conduct research, analysis, and correlation across a wide variety of all source data sets broadly and influence alerts and controls, as appropriate.
• Use cyber defense tools for continual monitoring and quickly analyze alerts from various sources across the enterprise.
• Perform technical and nontechnical risk and vulnerability assessments of relevant technology focus areas and present risk mitigation approaches to management.
• Conduct threat hunting and vulnerability analyses of systems within a network.
• Participate in threat-informed offensive security exercises, as appropriate.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

What Will Our Ideal Candidate Have?

• Degree or Certificate in Cybersecurity, Computer Science or related field.
• 3 years of experience in cybersecurity with experience in recognizing and categorizing types of vulnerabilities and associated attacks and applying cybersecurity and privacy principles to organizational requirements.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team in a fast-paced environment.
• Experience using incident handling methodologies.
• Broad technical knowledge of computer networking concepts and protocols, network security methodologies, cyber threats and vulnerabilities, authentication, authorization, and access control methods.
• Knowledge of operational impacts of cybersecurity lapses.
• Experience with cyber defense and vulnerability assessment tools and capabilities and an understanding of how a security system should work and how changes would impact outcomes.
• Ability to effectively communicate meaningful insights regarding the organization’s threat environment in order to improve its risk management posture.
• Experience analyzing and diagnosing problems that are novel and not readily defined; that lack known precedent or appear contradictory.
• Familiarity with industry frameworks including MITRE ATT&CK and Cyber Kill Chain.

What is a Must Have?

• Bachelor’s degree or its equivalent in work experience.
• 2 years of experience working in a Technology related field or role.

What Is in It for You?

• Health Insurance: Employees and their eligible family members – including spouses, domestic partners, and children – are eligible for coverage from the first day of employment.
• Retirement: Travelers matches your 401(k) contributions dollar-for-dollar up to your first 5% of eligible pay, subject to an annual maximum. If you have student loan debt, you can enroll in the Paying it Forward Savings Program. When