Senior AppSec Engineer at FINRA in Rockville, Maryland

Job Description:

The Senior Security Engineer works under minimal 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 and ad hoc processes and techniques to identify, validate, prioritize, and track security risks.


• Identify uncontrolled risks and recommend control improvements.


• Proactively identify security requirement deficiencies.


• Engage business and technology personnel to elicit security requirements.


• Architect and design security control systems to address requirements.


• Operate and monitor established security controls.


• Identify control deficiencies and make appropriate recommendations.


• Ensure that controls are operating effectively; resolve operating discrepancies.


• Review, triage, and prioritize control output.


• Take appropriate action to resolve security discrepancies.


• Identify, evaluate, and recommend new security technologies, techniques, and tools.


• Define, review, and promote information security policies, standards, guidelines, and procedures.


• As compliance subject matter expert, enforce and monitor compliance with internal and external regulations, policies, and standards.


• Establish and promote strategies to ensure that compliance is effectively monitored and enforced.


• Lead/Co-lead internal process improvement initiatives. Provide feedback on processes by offering suggestions.


• Mentor and supervise junior staff in project-level tasks.


• Assist with adherence to technology policies and comply with all security controls.


• Ensure all work products meets /exceeds FINRA standards.

Education/Experience Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or related discipline with at least five (5) years of related experience, or equivalent training and/or work experience.


• Experience must include direct experience in several of the key areas listed: 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.


• In-depth knowledge of one or more communications protocols.


• Experience with more than one 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.


• In-depth knowledge of more than one Information Security principle and discipline.

Work Conditions:

• Work is normally performed in an office environment.


• Occasional travel and extended hours may be required

To be considered for this position, please submit an application.

The information provided above has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work of the position. It is not a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications required.

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In addition to a competitive salary, comprehensive health and welfare benefits, and incentive compensation, FINRA offers immediate participation and vesting in a 401(k) plan with company match. You will also be eligible for participation in an additional FINRA-funded retirement contribution, our tuition reimbursement program and many other benefits. If you would like to contribute to our important mission and work collegially in a professional organization that values intelligence, integrity and initiative, consider a career with FINRA.

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.

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