Senior Security Engineer- Senior RACF Engineer

Truist; Wilson (NC); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

Life insurance

Disability

401k plan

Vacation & sick days

Job summary

Truist is seeking a Senior RACF Engineer to design and maintain RACF profiles, groups, and resource classes for secure, compliant operations. You will lead RACF administration activities, including user provisioning, access reviews, and cleanup of obsolete IDs and datasets, while implementing advanced RACF features to strengthen security on IBM z/OS.

In this role you will monitor RACF with SMF, IRRDBU00, and zSecure tools, develop automation scripts in REXX/CLIST/JCL, and collaborate with IAM,

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent education, training, and work-related experience.
• Minimum of 7 years of experience in security engineering or related cybersecurity roles.
• Deep specialized knowledge in cybersecurity principles, theories, and concepts.
• Proven experience in software development lifecycle security practices.
• Deep knowledge of threat modeling, security testing, and penetration testing.
• Experience implementing and managing complex information security technologies.

Responsibilities

• Lead RACF administration activities, including user provisioning and access reviews.
• Implement and manage advanced RACF features to enhance security.
• Monitor RACF activity using SMF records, IRRDBU00, and zSecure tools.
• Develop automation scripts for RACF provisioning/reporting using REXX, CLIST, JCL.
• Collaborate with IAM, risk, and audit teams to enforce least-privilege access.
• Mentor junior security engineers and serve as a technical SME.

Skills

Security engineering

Threat modeling

Security testing

Penetration testing

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent education, training, and work-related experience

Bachelor's degree and eight years of experience in systems engineering or administration

Bachelor's degree and ten years of experience or equivalent combination

Tools

IRRDBU00

DSMON

SMF

zSecure Admin/Audit/Alert

QRadar

Splunk

Job description

Regular or Temporary: Regular Language Fluency: English (Required) Work Shift: 1st shift (United States of America)

Senior RACF Engineer

Responsible for designing and maintaining RACF profiles, groups, and resource classes to support both business operations and regulatory compliance.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Summary of the essential functions for this job. Other duties may be performed, both major and minor, which are not mentioned below. Specific activities may change from time to time. This role leads RACF administration activities, including user provisioning, access reviews, and the cleanup of obsolete IDs and datasets. The engineer implements and manages advanced RACF features such as password phrases, digital certificates, and program control to enhance system security. The engineer will monitor and audit RACF activity using SMF records, IRRDBU00 utilities, and zSecure tools to ensure accurate tracking and reporting. Collaboration with application, infrastructure, and compliance teams is essential to enforce least-privilege access across the organization. The engineer develops and maintains automation scripts for RACF provisioning and reporting using REXX, CLIST, and JCL, and provides expert-level support for security incidents, access issues, and RACF-related outages. This position participates in RACF migrations, system upgrades, and integration with external identity systems such as LDAP. The engineer documents RACF policies, procedures, and standards, and contributes to audit and compliance reporting efforts.

Candidates must have hands‑on experience with RACF on IBM z/OS and possess a deep understanding of RACF classes including DATASET, GENERAL, FACILITY, OPERCMDS, and UNIXPRIV. Proficiency with IRRDBU00, DSMON, and SMF record analysis is preferred, along with expertise in zSecure Admin, Audit, and Alert modules. Strong scripting skills in REXX, CLIST, and JCL is essential. Familiarity with USS environments, including OMVS segments, BPX.DAEMON, and program control, is expected. The ideal candidate will have working knowledge of compliance frameworks such as SOX, HIPAA, and PCI‑DSS, and demonstrate strong communication and documentation skills. Experience integrating RACF into SIEM platforms like QRadar or Splunk is highly desirable and prior involvement in RACF migrations or enterprise‑wide cleanup initiatives will be considered an asset.

Responsible for developing and maintaining the technical IT / cyber security capabilities necessary for safeguarding the firm's information systems and applications (software development lifecycle), including every phase of the SDLC and software stack. Design, plan, test and implement phases of cybersecurity technology projects. This role seeks an experienced Cybersecurity Senior Engineer in the Mainframe Security team to ensure secure access control, across our mainframes including identity management, certificate administration, encryption controls. This role is critical in ensuring secure and compliant access requiring the successful candidate to understand the complete user access lifecycle, privileged access administration, and risk management. This role is responsible for implementing and supporting capabilities described by industry best practices such as NIST and CRI. This includes administering and maintaining policies and profiles, ensuring proper role-based access control (RBAC), segregation of duties, controls and auditing mechanisms. The team member will collaborate across IAM, other cybersecurity, infrastructure, application development, risk and audit teams. This position may lead related projects in this space, and you will build and maintain automation scripts and custom tools to streamline provisioning, monitoring and reporting of access controls. In addition, this senior position will mentor junior security engineers and serve as a technical SME.

Qualifications Required

1. 1. Bachelor's degree or equivalent education, training, and work-related experience.
2. 2. Minimum of 7 years of experience in security engineering or related cybersecurity roles.
3. 3. Deep specialized knowledge in cybersecurity principles, theories, and concepts.
4. 4. Proven experience in software development lifecycle security practices.
5. 5. Deep knowledge of threat modeling, security testing, and penetration testing.
6. 6. Experience implementing and managing complex information security technologies.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and eight years of experience in systems engineering or administration or an equivalent combination of education and work experience.
• Deep specialized and/or broad functional knowledge in applied enterprise information security technologies including but not limited to firewalls, intrusion detection/prevention systems, network operating systems, identity management, database activity monitoring, encryption, content filtering, and Mainframe security.
• Previous experience in leading complex IT projects.
• Bachelor's degree and ten years of experience or an equivalent combination of education and work experience. Banking or financial services experience.
• Other security certifications (e.g. CCNA Security, GSEC, GCED, GPPA, etc.)
• Other technical Certifications (e.g. CCNA, RHCE, MCSE, etc.)
• Certification in Information Security Management (e.g. Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) or Certified Information Security Manager (CISM)), or related security certification(s)
• Understanding of regulatory frameworks for financial institutions
• Ability to collaborate across teams and influence people
• Excellent communications skills
• Experience in waterfall and agile project management methodologies

General Description of Available Benefits for Eligible Employees of Truist Financial Corporation

• All regular teammates (not temporary or contingent workers) working 20 hours or more per week are eligible for benefits, though eligibility for specific benefits may be determined by the division of Truist offering the position.
• Truist offers medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability, accidental death and dismemberment, tax-preferred savings accounts, and a 401k plan to teammates.
• Teammates also receive no less than 10 days of vacation (prorated based on date of hire and by full-time or part-time status) during their first year of employment, along with 10 sick days (also prorated), and paid holidays.
• For more details on Truist's generous benefit plans, please visit our Benefits site.
• Depending on the position and division, this job may also be eligible for Truist's defined benefit pension plan, restricted stock units, and/or a deferred compensation plan.
• As you advance through the hiring process, you will also learn more about the specific benefits available for any non-temporary position for which you apply, based on full-time or part-time status, position, and division of work.

Truist is an Equal Opportunity Employer that does not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, color, religion, citizenship or national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, veteran status, or other classification protected by law.

Truist is a Drug Free Workplace.

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