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Exposure Management Senior Advisor

Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago · Chicago, IL · Full time

Posted Sep 4, 2026 · We last checked this listing on Oct 5, 2026

Likely interview questions for this role

Written from this job description, not a generic list. Each one notes what the interviewer is really checking.

About your past

Tell me about a time you got an application or infrastructure team to fix something they kept deferring.

What they are checking: Influence and persistence when remediation competes with other priorities and you don't own the system.

Tell me about a time threat intelligence changed what you were prioritizing.

What they are checking: Whether they connect external threat activity to internal priorities in a timely way.

What would you do

You have ten thousand open vulnerabilities. How do you decide what gets fixed first?

What they are checking: Risk-based prioritization using exploitability, asset criticality and reachability instead of raw severity scores.

A system owner requests a risk exception for a critical vulnerability because patching would break a payment process. What do you do?

What they are checking: Their handling of exceptions and compensating controls within SAFR and security policy.

How would you work with teams at Reserve Banks across the country who each run things a bit differently?

What they are checking: Ability to drive a consistent program across a federated organization without heavy-handed control.

About the work

How is continuous exposure management different from a traditional vulnerability management program?

What they are checking: Whether they understand the shift from scanning and patch counts to validated, prioritized attack paths.

How would you discover and keep an accurate picture of the attack surface across on-premises, cloud and hybrid environments?

What they are checking: Their approach to asset discovery and inventory, since you can't reduce exposure you don't know about.

How do you validate that an exposure is actually exploitable before asking a team to drop everything?

What they are checking: Familiarity with breach simulation, attack path analysis or penetration testing to build credibility with fixers.

What metrics would you report to leadership to show that exposure is going down?

What they are checking: Whether they measure real risk reduction, like time to remediate critical exposures, rather than activity.

How does cloud misconfiguration fit into exposure management, and how would you catch it?

What they are checking: Depth on cloud security posture, a common source of exposure in hybrid environments.

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The full job description

As published by Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.

Company Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond When you join the Federal Reserve—the nation's central bank—you’ll play a key role, collaborating with leading tech professionals to strengthen and protect our economic, financial and payments systems. We invest in contemporary and emerging technology each year to support the Federal Reserve and our economy, and we’re building a dynamic and diverse team for our future. The Information Security & Policy portfolio collaborates with business areas to address current and future cybersecurity threats across the enterprise, enforce SAFR and security policy, provide strategic and cost-effective services to its stakeholders, and protect the availability, confidentiality and integrity of Federal Reserve assets. The selected candidate will reside within a reasonable commuting distance, as defined by the employing Reserve Bank, and will work full-time onsite. Eligible Locations for Hire: Boston, MA- New York, NY- Philadelphia, PA- Cleveland, OH- Richmond, VA- Atlanta, GA- Chicago, IL- St. Louis, MO- Minneapolis, MN- Kansas City, MO- Dallas, TX- San Francisco, CA The Exposure Management Senior Advisor is responsible for continuously identifying, assessing, validating, and reducing the organization’s cyber exposures across on ‑ premises, cloud, and hybrid environments. This role integrates attack surface discovery, vulnerability insights, misconfiguration analysis, identity exposure review, and business context to provide a unified view of cyber risk. Working closely with the Product Manager, this role translates program strategy and user needs into actionable features, configurations, integrations, and workflows that enable the Exposure Management program. Key Responsibilities Platform Operations & Service Delivery • Own the day-to-day operation and health of the Exposure Management SaaS platform, ensuring uptime, performance, and user access. • Manage platform configurations, user roles, integrations, data feeds, and API connections to support continuous exposure visibility. • Coordinate with vendors and internal IT teams to resolve technical issues, deploy updates, and maintain platform stability. • Ensure the platform scales to support evolving environments (cloud, identity, SaaS, on-premises). Data Integration & Workflow Optimization • Coordinate integration of exposure data sources including vulnerability scanners, cloud security posture management (CSPM), cloud infrastructure entitlement management (CIEM), external attack surface management (EASM), asset inventories, and threat intelligence feeds. • Design and optimize workflows for exposure discovery, risk scoring, validation, remediation assignment, and tracking to align with Exposure Management cycles. Exposure Identification & Risk Analysis • Discover, map, and inventory external and internal attack surfaces across cloud, on premise, network, application, and SaaS environments. • Identify unknown, shadow, misconfigured, or abandoned assets that contribute to the organization’s exposure. • Monitor asset changes and ensure continuous visibility into evolving environments . • Evaluate exposure severity using exploitability, threat intelligence, asset criticality, and potential business impact. • Produce risk ratings and exposure narratives that business units can understand and act on. Program Enablement & Governance • Contribute to scoping CTEM cycles and defining focus areas (e.g., cloud posture, identity exposures, internet-facing risks). • Maintain standards, processes, and documentation related to exposure management activities. • Provide clear metrics and reporting to leadership on exposure trends, risk posture, and remediation progress. • Support integration of exposure management into broader security architecture and operational security processes. Vendor & Stakeholder Management • Serve as a l iaison with the SaaS platform vendor, managing support escalations, feature requests, and roadmap discussions. • Represent organizational needs and use cases in vendor product development conversations. • Collaborate with business and IT stakeholders to ensure platform configurations meet business, security, and governance requirements. • Work with procurement and finance teams to manage licensing, usage optimization, and budget planning. Required Skills & Qualifications • Strong understanding of Exposure Management concepts including attack surface management, exposure prioritization, cloud security posture, identity risk, and Exposure Management principles. • Experience with CTEM-aligned workflows or continuous risk-reduction programs. • Ability to analyze complex exposure data and translate it into actionable risk insights. • Experience with exposure, vulnerability, or ASM tooling (e.g., ASM platforms, CSPM, CIEM, VM scanners, EASM tools, attack path analysis). • Experience managing SaaS platforms, including integrations, APIs, data pipelines, and vendor relationships. • Strong communication and stakeholder management skills with ability to work across technical and business teams. Salary: • 136,600.00 - 222,000.00 *The listed salary is applicable to 5th District (Richmond). Final offers are determined by factors including the candidate’s qualifications, internal alignment considerations, district assignment, and geographic location. Full Time / Part Time Full time Regular / Temporary Regular Job Exempt (Yes / No) Yes Job Category Information Technology Family Group Work Shift First (United States of America) The Federal Reserve Banks are committed to equal employment opportunity for employees and job applicants in compliance with applicable law and to an environment where employees are valued for their differences. Always verify and apply to jobs on Federal Reserve System Careers ( https://rb.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/FRS ) or through verified Federal Reserve Bank social media channels. Privacy Notice