Staff Engineer II - Cyber

Location: Phoenix, Arizona, United States

Employment: Full-time

Company

hirify.global is a nationwide banking organization and wholly owned subsidiary of Western Alliance Bancorporation, operating through multiple legacy bank brands and financial services businesses.

What you will do

• Own and engineer cyber defense platforms across cloud, endpoint, network, and data environments.
• Build and operationalize a Continuous Threat Exposure Management program covering asset discovery, risk-based prioritization, exploitability validation, and remediation coordination.
• Lead Attack Surface Management capabilities to identify internet-exposed assets, validate exposures, and maintain visibility into known and unknown attack surfaces.
• Engineer and integrate security platforms including Wiz, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Rapid7, CrowdStrike, Symantec DLP/CASB, and SSPM technologies.
• Review and improve defense, audit, access, tactics, and techniques to support regulatory requirements.
• Maintain platform resilience through disaster recovery exercises, vendor management, license and certificate oversight, and capacity planning.

Requirements

• 6+ years of advanced cybersecurity experience.
• Bachelor's degree in a related field.
• Working knowledge of Linux and PowerShell.
• Strong understanding of SAML, SSO, LDAP, ASM, CTEM, DLP, CASB, CSPM, firewalls, SSL/TLS, vulnerability scanners, and EDR.
• Strong knowledge of OSI layers, DNS, SMTP, CIS, NIST, and MITRE frameworks.
• Demonstrated leadership in security operations architecture or detection engineering, with the ability to communicate technical findings in executive-level risk terms.

Nice to have

• Advanced knowledge of financial services or banking.
• Hands-on experience with Wiz, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Rapid7, CrowdStrike, Symantec DLP/CASB, or SSPM technologies.

Culture & Benefits

• Medical and dental insurance.
• Paid time off and a 401(k) matching program.
• Tuition assistance and wellness programs.
• Employee volunteer program and company ownership opportunity.