Western Alliance Bank
IR Engineer II - DLP Response Engineer (Purview)
Phoenix, AZ · Mid
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About the role
- About the company: Western Alliance Bank, Member FDIC, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Western Alliance Bancorporation.
- Western Alliance Bancorporation is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities.
- When contacting us, please provide your contact information and state the nature of your accessibility issue.
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, test, maintain, and continuously improve Microsoft Purview policies, detection logic, indicators, alert thresholds, exceptions, exclusions, and workflow configurations across Data Loss Prevention, Insider Risk Management, and related compliance capabilities.
- Support the configuration and lifecycle management of sensitivity labels, Sensitive Information Types, trainable classifiers, policy tips, user notifications, and endpoint DLP controls.
- Support configuration, testing, and tuning of Microsoft Purview capabilities used to monitor and govern sensitive data interactions with generative AI tools, including Microsoft 365 Copilot and other approved or monitored AI experiences.
- Review, validate, and triage Microsoft Purview DLP and Insider Risk alerts in accordance with established procedures and escalation criteria.
- Support case management workflows, including evidence collection, disposition documentation, escalation routing, and coordination with appropriate internal teams.
- Support complex investigations involving insider risk indicators, high-risk data movement, policy violations, privileged access concerns, and other scenarios requiring advanced technical validation and evidence review.
- Support Microsoft Purview DLP policies across email, endpoint, cloud, collaboration, and Microsoft 365 workloads.
- Validate sensitive data detections, policy matches, and user notification outcomes to improve control effectiveness and reduce unnecessary alert noise.
- This role combines Purview policy administration, alert triage, investigation support, control tuning, documentation, and operational engineering activities across Insider Risk Management, Data Loss Prevention, and related compliance capabilities.
- This role will support a growing Insider Risk and Data Loss Prevention program within a large financial institution by helping validate alerts, maintain detection logic, improve policy fidelity, and support risk-based escalation workflows.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in cybersecurity, information security, data protection, insider risk, security operations, compliance engineering, or a related technology function.
- Intermediate to advanced knowledge of applicable regulatory and legal compliance obligations, rules and regulations, industry standards and practices.
- Working knowledge of data protection concepts, including sensitive data handling, data loss prevention, information protection, data classification, and risk-based monitoring.
- Experience correlating user activity, identity, endpoint, and data security telemetry.
- Ability to interpret policy requirements and translate them into practical technical configurations, control checks, or operational workflows.
- Strong analytical, documentation, troubleshooting, and communication skills, including the ability to clearly communicate technical findings to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Ability to handle sensitive matters with discretion, professionalism, and appropriate need-to-know handling.
- Experience with Microsoft Purview Information Protection, sensitivity labels, encryption, auto-labeling, Sensitive Information Types, Exact Data Match, trainable classifiers, or data classification capabilities.
Nice to have
- High school diploma required
- Bachelor's degree in related field preferred.
Benefits
- Support operational alignment between Microsoft Purview DLP and Broadcom DLP, including triage coverage, policy interpretation, alert review, and escalation support as needed.
- Support operational alignment between Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management and DTEX Intercept, including triage coverage, alert review, use-case support, and escalation coordination as needed.
Company info
- Western Alliance Bank, Member FDIC, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Western Alliance Bancorporation.
- If you are an individual with a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the application process and/or need an alternative method of applying, please email HR@westernalliancebank.com or call 602-386-2488.
- We will only respond to inquiries concerning requests that involve a reasonable accommodation in the application process.
- Serving clients nationwide, Western Alliance Bank includes six legacy bank brands - Alliance Association Bank, Alliance Bank of Arizona, Bank of Nevada, Bridge Bank, First Independent Bank and Torrey Pines Bank - that remain part of the company's heritage, as well as AmeriHome Mortgage, a Western Alliance Bank Company.
- Western Alliance Bancorporation is committed to equal employment and will consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, sex, color, religion, age, nation origin, marital status, disability, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or genetic information.
- © Western Alliance Bancorporation
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