Assistant Vice President (AVP), Security Engineering

CLS LTD; United States; Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Private medical insurance

Pension

Volunteer days

Learning platform

Inclusive culture

Job summary

CLS LTD in the United States is seeking an Assistant Vice President (AVP) of Security Engineering to lead hands-on deployment, automation, and operational support of enterprise security platforms. The role emphasizes AWS-based security tooling integration, security automation, and learning from senior engineers.

The AVP will design secure cloud architectures, develop IaC for tooling deployment, and contribute to data protection, monitoring, and incident response across the security stack.

Qualifications

• 2-3 years of experience in security engineering or related fields.
• Hands-on with AWS-based environments and security tooling.
• Proven ability to develop automation using Python.
• Willingness to learn and work with senior engineers.

Responsibilities

• Assist with configuring and maintaining enterprise security platforms.
• Learn and deploy security tools with mentoring.
• Build and manage AWS environments for PoCs and production deployments.
• Develop IaC capabilities for rapid deployment of security tooling.
• Design and implement security monitoring, detection, and data protection workflows.
• Onboard log sources and develop Splunk searches, dashboards, and reports.

Skills

Security engineering

Cloud security

Python automation

AWS

Infrastructure as code

Tools

Splunk

Forcepoint

Zscaler

Terraform

Job description

The Assistant Vice President (AVP), Security Engineering is a junior technical engineering role responsible for assisting with the deployment, automation, and operational support of enterprise security platforms and controls. Ideally the candidate will have some AWS cloud infrastructure security tooling integration, security automation experience. This role requires a hands-on engineer who can build and deploy AWS-based environments to evaluate, test, and operationalize new security technologies and engineer off the shelf security tools. They need to have an openness and desire to learn and get stuck in and help solve problems. They will be supported and mentored by senior engineers in the team.

Security Engineering & Tool Deployment

• Assist with configuring and maintaining enterprise security platforms and services.
• Be willing to assist and learn the following products with the mentoring of more senior security engineers (experience with any of the below is desirable but not essential)
• Splunk Enterprise / Splunk Cloud
• Forcepoint Web Security
• Forcepoint Email Security & DLP
• Zscaler DLP and Internet Access
• Microsoft Purview DLP
• Qualys VMDR
• Additional threat detection, monitoring, and data protection technologies.
• Troubleshoot platform, infrastructure, and integration issues across security ecosystems.

AWS Infrastructure Engineering

• Help build and manage AWS environments used for proof-of-concepts, product evaluation, security testing, and production deployments.
• Develop repeatable Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) capabilities for rapid deployment of security tooling.
• Engineer secure cloud architectures incorporating: EC2, VPCs, Security Groups, IAM, Route53, S3, Lambda, CloudWatch, GuardDuty, AWS Organizations
• Support secure cloud adoption initiatives and platform modernization programs.

Security Automation & Development

• Develop automation solutions using Python to reduce operational overhead and improve security effectiveness.
• Create and maintain scripts, APIs, orchestration workflows, and automation frameworks for: Security tool deployment, Configuration management, Monitoring and alerting, Compliance validation, Asset discovery, Data collection and reporting
• Integrate security tooling with enterprise workflows and operational platforms.

Security Monitoring & Detection Engineering

• Design and implement security monitoring use cases.
• On board new log sources.
• Develop Splunk searches, correlation rules, dashboards, and reporting capabilities.
• Improve threat detection coverage through security telemetry integration and log onboarding.
• Partner with Cyber Defense teams to improve detection engineering and incident response capabilities.

Data Protection Engineering

• Deploy and manage enterprise Data Loss Prevention (DLP) solutions.
• Configure and optimize: Forcepoint DLP, Microsoft Purview DLP, Zscaler DLP
• Work with data owners and security architects to implement controls protecting sensitive information.

Technical Leadership

• Collaborate closely senior engineers and architects to deliver secure-by-design solutions.
• Support security technology roadmaps and strategic initiatives.
• 2-3 years of experience in Security Engineering, Cloud Security Engineering, or Infrastructure Security.
• Experience building and deploying AWS environments from the ground up.
• Hands-on experience onboarding, configuring, and operating enterprise security platforms.
• Strong experience automating security operations using Python.
• Experience supporting security technology evaluations, proof-of-concepts, and production rollouts.

Technical Skills: Cloud & Infrastructure

• AWS (preferred)
• Infrastructure-as-Code concepts
• Linux and Windows administration
• Networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP/S, Routing, Proxies)

Desirable Security Technologies (all not essential)

• Splunk
• Forcepoint Web Security
• Forcepoint DLP
• Forcepoint Email Security
• Zscaler DLP
• Microsoft Purview DLP
• SIEM, Endpoint Detection & Response (EDR), DLP, and Vulnerability Management technologies
• Ansible
• SCCM

Development & Automation

• SPL
• Python
• REST APIs
• Automation frameworks
• Scripting and orchestration
• CI/CD concepts, AWS Solutions Architect, Security Specialty, or equivalent certification.
• Splunk Power User, Admin, or Architect certification.
• CrowdStrike Certified Falcon Administrator.
• Experience with Terraform or CloudFormation.

Key Competencies

• Troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
• Strong engineering mindset with a passion for automation.
• Strong desire to learn new technologies.

Success Measures

• Engineering and onboarding of security technologies.
• Increased automation and reduction in manual operational effort.
• Improved security monitoring and detection capabilities.
• Effective implementation of DLP and data protection controls.
• Stable, scalable, and secure AWS-hosted security infrastructure.
• Successful delivery of security engineering initiatives aligned with business and security objectives.

What we're looking for:

• 2-3 years' experience in security engineering / cyber engineering / engineering
• Engineering mindset: able to go deep on architecture, automation, telemetry, and operational resilience.
• Data-driven and outcome-focused, with a bias toward measurable security improvements.
• Comfortable operating in fast-paced, evolving environments.
• Willingness to learn and tackle new challenges.

CLS is the trusted party at the centre of the global FX ecosystem. Utilized by thousands of counterparties, CLS makes FX safer, smoother and more cost effective. Trillions of dollars' worth of currency flows through our systems each day.

Created by the market for the market, our unrivalled global settlement infrastructure reduces systemic risk and provides standardization for participants in many of the world's most actively traded currencies. We deliver huge efficiencies and savings for our clients: in fact, our approach to multilateral netting shrinks funding requirements by over 96% on average, so clients can put their capital and resources to better use. CLS products are designed to enable clients to manage risk most effectively across the full FX lifecycle - whether through more efficient processing tools or market intelligence derived from the largest single source of FX executed data available to the market.

Our values underpin everything that we do at CLS and define our working environment:

• Pivotal purpose
• Trusted guardian
• Targeted innovation
• Facilitate connections
• Delivering excellence
• Inclusive culture

At CLS, we celebrate inclusion and consider this to be one of our strongest assets. We are committed to fostering an environment in which everyone feels comfortable to be who they are, and inclusion is valued. All employees have access to our inclusive benefits, including:

Benefits

• Holiday - UK/Asia: 25 holiday days and 3 'life days' (in addition to bank holidays). US: 23 holiday days.
• 2 paid volunteer days so that you can actively support causes within your community that are important to you.
• Generous parental leave policies to ensure you can enjoy valuable time with your family.
• Parental transition coaching programmes and support services.
• Wellbeing and mental health support resources to ensure you are looking after yourself, and able to support others.
• Employee Networks (including our Women's Forum, Black Employee Network and Pride Network) in support of our organisational commitment to embrace and always be learning more about inclusivity.
• Hybrid working to promote a healthy work/life balance, enabling employees to work collaboratively in the office when needed and work from home when they don't.
• Active support of flexible working for all employees where possible.
• Monthly 'Heads Down Days' with no meetings across the whole company.
• Generous non-contributory pension provision for UK/Asia employees, and 401K match from CLS for US employees.
• Private medical insurance and dental coverage.
• Social events that give you opportunities to meet new people and broaden your network across the organisation.
• Annual flu vaccinations.
• Discounts and savings and cashback across a wide range of categories including health and retail for UK employees.
• Discounted Gym membership - Complete Body Gym Discount/Sweat equity program for US employees.
• All employees have access to Discover - our comprehensive learning platform with 1000+ courses from LinkedIn Learning.
• Access to frequent development sessions on a number of topics to help you be successful and develop your career at CLS.