Staff Security Engineer

The Staff Security Engineer works under limited supervision and will perform information security tasks commensurate with their experience that ensure applications and projects meet defined quality standards.

Essential Job Functions:

1. Apply established processes and techniques to identify, validate, and prioritize security risks.
2. Architect and design security control systems to address requirements.
3. Operate and monitor established security controls.
4. Ensure that controls are operating effectively; resolve operating discrepancies.
5. Review, triage, and prioritize control output. Recommend actions to resolve identified security discrepancies.
6. Evaluate and recommend new security technologies, techniques, and tools.
7. Review and help define information security policies, standards, guidelines, and procedures.
8. Monitor and enforce compliance with internal and external regulations, policies, and standards. Recommend strategies to ensure that compliance is effectively monitored and enforced.
9. Lead / Co-lead internal project/program level process improvement initiatives. Provide feedback on processes by offering suggestions.
10. Informally mentor more junior staff.
11. Assist with adherence to technology policies and comply with all security controls.
12. Ensure all work products meet/exceed FINRA standards.

Education/Experience Requirements:

1. Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or related discipline with at least three (3) years of related experience, or equivalent training and/or work experience.
2. Experience must include direct experience in more than one of the following areas: securing networks and systems architecture, design and implementation, secure software assurance, intrusion detection, defense and incident response, security configuration management, access controls design and implementation, and security policy and standards development.
3. Knowledge of communications protocols.
4. Experience with one or more Cyber Security tools, including: Configuration Assessment, Log Aggregation, Integrity Verification, Web Application Security Testing, Network Access Control System, Network Intrusion Prevention Systems, and Endpoint Security Solutions.
5. Strong written and verbal technical communication skills.
6. Demonstrated ability to develop effective working relationships that improve the quality of work products.
7. Should be well organized, thorough, and able to handle competing priorities.
8. Ability to maintain focus and develop proficiency in new skills rapidly.
9. Ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
10. Solid knowledge of more than one Information Security principle and discipline.

Work Conditions:

1. Work is normally performed in an office environment.
2. Occasional travel and extended hours may be required.

To be considered for this position, please submit an application. Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.

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Employees may be eligible for a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay. Non-exempt employees are also eligible for overtime pay in accordance with federal, state, or local law. As part of its dedication to employee wellness, FINRA provides comprehensive health, dental and vision insurance. Additional insurance includes basic life, accidental death and dismemberment, supplemental life, spouse/domestic partner and dependent life, and spouse/domestic partner and dependent accidental death and dismemberment, short- and long-term disability, long-term care, business travel accident, disability and legal. FINRA offers immediate participation and vesting in a 401(k) plan with company match and eligibility for participation in an additional FINRA-funded retirement contribution, tuition reimbursement, commuter benefits, and other benefits that support employee wellness, such as adoption assistance, backup family care, surrogacy benefits, employee assistance, and wellness programs.

FINRA encourages its employees to focus on their health and wellness in many ways, including through a generous time-off program of 15 days of paid time off, 5 personal days and 9 sick days, unless otherwise required by law (all pro-rated in the first year). Additionally, we are proud to support our communities by providing two volunteer service days (based on full-time schedule). Other paid leave includes military leave, jury duty leave, bereavement leave, voting and election official leave for federal, state or local primary and general elections, care of a family member leave (available after 90 days of employment); and childbirth and parental leave (available after 90 days of employment). Full-time employees receive nine paid holidays.

Important Information: FINRA’s Code of Conduct imposes restrictions on employees’ investments and requires financial disclosures that are uniquely related to our role as a securities regulator. FINRA employees are required to disclose to FINRA all brokerage accounts that they maintain, and those in which they control trading or have a financial interest (including any trust account of which they are a trustee or beneficiary and all accounts of a spouse, domestic partner or minor child who lives with the employee) and to authorize their broker-dealers to provide FINRA with duplicate statements for all of those accounts.

As standard practice, employees must also execute FINRA’s Employee Confidentiality and Invention Assignment Agreement without qualification or modification and comply with the company’s policy on nepotism.

FINRA is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, citizenship status, color, disability, marital status, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status or any other classification protected by federal state or local laws as appropriate, or upon the protected status of the person’s relatives, friends or associates.