Senior Principal Cybersecurity Analyst, CAT

FINRA

2d • $111,400 - $242,600 • Hybrid

About The Position

The Senior Principal Cybersecurity Analyst in FINRA CAT is responsible for identifying and managing cybersecurity risks by identifying, establishing, implementing, operating, and continually improving cybersecurity controls and processes.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, cybersecurity, or technical field preferred and a minimum of eight (8) years of related experience.
• Experience in multiple cybersecurity domains appropriate to the job description, including designing, implementing, operating, monitoring, and assessing security controls for cloud-based systems such as AWS required.
• Substantial experience designing, implementing, and operating a variety of tools and resources to identify cyber security threats, vulnerabilities, configuration defects, and other deficiencies to determine root cause and manage remediation strategies and countermeasures.
• Understanding of common cybersecurity vulnerabilities and attack patterns and ability to explain how they are both exploited and countered.
• Must demonstrate intellectual curiosity and attention to detail, with strong verbal and written communication skills

Nice To Haves

• Hands-on coding experience desired, especially as applied to creating tools and automation to customize, optimize, and enhance security controls.
• Experience supporting compliance with security frameworks, especially NIST 800, desirable.

Responsibilities

• Implement and operate cybersecurity controls, processes, and automation across multiple cybersecurity subdomains.
• Ensure security controls are well designed, effectively implemented, and aligned with organizational policies.
• Design and implement automated solutions for efficiently managing cybersecurity risk.
• Perform Threat Detection and Response in a Splunk-based environment.
• Detect cybersecurity threats, evaluate risks, and respond in accordance with policies, procedures, and best practices.
• Maintain knowledge of evolving cybersecurity control offerings and best practices; drive, recommend, and implement enhancements.
• Identify and manage cybersecurity risks including vulnerabilities, configuration defects, and other deficiencies to determine root cause.
• Manage remediation strategies and countermeasures.
• Effectively communicate risks and state of controls to stakeholders including the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO).
• Define, enforce, and promote information security policies and related governance artifacts and processes.

Benefits

• 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.
• 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 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees