Staff Security Engineer

FINRA; Rockville (MD); Hybrid; USD 97,000 - 173,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) with company match

Tuition reimbursement

Commuter benefits

Wellness programs

Job summary

FINRA, based in Rockville, MD, seeks a Staff Security Engineer to ensure applications and projects meet defined quality standards. You will apply established processes to identify and prioritize security risks, and you will architect and operate security controls to address requirements.

The role requires broad security experience, strong communication skills, and the ability to work in a hybrid environment with occasional travel.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or related discipline with at least three (3) years of related experience.
• Experience in securing networks and systems architecture, design and implementation or related areas.
• Knowledge of communications protocols and experience with multiple security tools.

Responsibilities

• Identify, validate, and prioritize security risks using established processes.
• Architect and design security control systems to address requirements.
• Operate and monitor established security controls and resolve discrepancies.
• Review output and recommend actions to resolve security issues.
• Evaluate and adopt new security technologies and tools.
• Monitor compliance with regulations, policies, and standards.

Skills

Network security

Security architecture

Incident response

Policy development

Technical communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS or related field

Tools

Configuration Assessment

Log Aggregation

Integrity Verification

Web App Security Testing

Network Access Control

Network Intrusion Prevention

Endpoint Security Solutions

Job description

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:

• Apply established processes and techniques to identify, validate, and prioritize security risks.
• Architect and design security control systems to address requirements.
• Operate and monitor established security controls.
• Ensure that controls are operating effectively; resolve operating discrepancies.
• Review, triage, and prioritize control output. Recommend actions to resolve identified security discrepancies.
• Evaluate and recommend new security technologies, techniques, and tools.
• Review and help define information security policies, standards, guidelines, and procedures.
• Monitor and enforce compliance with internal and external regulations, policies, and standards.
• Recommend strategies to ensure that compliance is effectively monitored and enforced.
• Lead / Co-lead internal project/program level process improvement initiatives.
• Provide feedback on processes by offering suggestions.
• Informally mentor more junior staff.
• Assist with adherence to technology policies and comply with all security controls.
• Ensure all work products meets /exceeds FINRA standards
• Demonstration of FINRA’s values.
• Collaboration, both in-person and virtually, in furtherance of FINRA’s mission of investor protection and market integrity.

Education/Experience Requirements:

• 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.
• 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.
• Knowledge of communications protocols.
• 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.
• Strong written and verbal technical communication skills.
• Demonstrated ability to develop effective working relationships that improved the quality of work products.
• Should be well organized, thorough, and able to handle competing priorities.
• Ability to maintain focus and develop proficiency in new skills rapidly.
• Ability to work in a fast paced environment.
• Solid knowledge of more than one Information Security principle and discipline

Work Conditions:

• Hybrid work environment, with defined in-person presence requirements.
• Occasional travel and extended hours may be required.

For work that is performed in CO, CT, IL, PA, MA, MD, VA, WA, DC, NY, NJ, WA please refer to the chart below for the salary range for the corresponding location. FINRA complies with all state and local pay transparency laws and regulations requiring the disclosure of salary ranges for the position. In addition to location, actual compensation is based on various factors, including but not limited to, the candidate’s skill set, level of experience, education, and market considerations.

Boston, MA: $96,600 - $172,800

Chicago, IL: $92,400 - $165,300

Denver, CO: $83,900 - $150,300

Jericho, NY: $96,600 - $172,800

Jersey City, NJ: $100,800 - $180,400

Philadelphia, PA: $92,400 - $165,300

New York, NY: $100,800 - $180,400

Rockville, MD: $96,600 - $172,800

Tysons, VA: $96,600 - $172,800

Washington, DC: $96,600 - $ 172,800

Woodbridge, NJ: $96,600 - $172,800

Connecticut State: $83,900 - $180,400

Washington State: $83,900 - $180,400

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.

Time Off and Paid Leave*

FINRA encourages its employees to focus on their health and wellness in many ways, including through a generous time-off program starting at 15 days of paid time off (increasing with years of service, up to 25 days), 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.

• Based on full-time schedule

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.

All of those accounts are subject to the Code’s investment and securities account restrictions, and new employees must comply with those investment restrictions—including disposing of any security issued by a company on FINRA’s Prohibited Company List or obtaining a written waiver from their Executive Vice President—by the date they begin employment with FINRA. Employees may only maintain securities accounts that must be disclosed to FINRA at one or more securities firms that provide an electronic feed (e-feed) of data to FINRA, and must move securities accounts from other securities firms to a firm that provides an e-feed within three months of beginning employment.

You can read more about these restrictions here.

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 Employer

All qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to any legally protected category, including race, color, age, national origin, ethnicity, religion, disability, genetic information, military or veteran status, sex, or any other status or classification protected by state or local law.

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FINRA abides by the requirements of 41 CFR 60-741.5(a). This regulation prohibits discrimination against qualified individuals on the basis of disability and requires affirmative action by covered prime contractors and subcontractors to employ and advance in employment qualified individuals with disabilities.

FINRA abides by the requirements of 41 CFR 60-300.5(a). This regulation prohibits discrimination against qualified protected veterans and requires affirmative action by covered prime contractors and subcontractors to employ and advance in employment qualified protected veterans.

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