Senior Security Engineer
Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. (FINRA)2 months ago
Rockville, MD, USA or Washington, DC, USASenior
Base Salary
$98k - $211k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the observability and security telemetry pipeline platform, with primary responsibility for Cribl Stream routes, pipelines, packs, sources, destinations, parsing, enrichment, extraction, reduction, and transformation.
- Design and operate cloud-native data collection across AWS, Azure, and GCP using services such as SQS, SNS, S3 event notifications, Azure Event Hubs, and GCP Pub/Sub.
- Engineer reliability and scale through persistent-queue and backpressure tuning, throughput troubleshooting, capacity planning, autoscaling, and load distribution.
- Manage upgrades, configuration, monitoring, and lifecycle operations for distributed pipeline worker fleets.
- Help lead adoption of Splunk Edge Processor, including SPL2 pipelines and architectural decisions about tool placement.
- Administer a Zero Trust Network Access/software-defined perimeter platform, handling access requests, entitlements, policies, and user access issues.
- Build Python automation against platform APIs to provision and expire just-in-time access from approved workflows.
- Apply networking fundamentals including subnetting, IP address planning, routing, DNS, ports, protocols, and TLS.
- Develop scripts and tooling, document architectures and decisions, and partner with SIEM, detection, and infrastructure teams.
- The posting also lists regulatory-program, speaking, project-management, process-improvement, surveillance, and industry-rule responsibilities.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree and a minimum of ten years of experience in the securities or financial services industry, or an equivalent combination of education and experience in positions of increasing responsibility.
- At least five years of supervisory experience.
- Strong networking fundamentals and demonstrated ability to design security and data-pipeline solutions.
- Experience with Cribl Stream, including packs and distributed worker groups, is preferred; Cribl CCOE or Admin certification is a plus.
- Splunk Edge Processor or SPL2 experience is preferred.
- Appgate SDP experience, especially API-driven policy or entitlement automation and ITSM-integrated just-in-time access workflows, is preferred.
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code, deployment tooling, Terraform, Ansible, containers, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines is preferred.
- Experience with SIEM cost optimization, data reduction strategies, and security tooling in regulated enterprise environments is preferred.
- Demonstrated project management, process improvement, surveillance development lifecycle, regulatory-program leadership, data analytics, and measurable-results skills.
- Excellent written, verbal, interpersonal, presentation, organizational, and detail-orientation skills are required.
- Working knowledge of FINRA, MSRB, other SRO rules, and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 is listed in the posting.
Benefits
- Hybrid work environment with defined in-person presence requirements; hours may extend beyond normal business hours and travel may be required.
- Employees may be eligible for a discretionary bonus, and non-exempt employees may be eligible for overtime.
- Health, dental, vision, life, disability, long-term care, legal, business travel accident, and related insurance coverage.
- Immediate 401(k) participation and vesting with company match, plus eligibility for an additional FINRA-funded retirement contribution.
- Tuition reimbursement, commuter benefits, adoption assistance, backup family care, surrogacy benefits, employee assistance, and wellness programs.
- Fifteen days of paid time off, five personal days, nine sick days, two volunteer service days, and nine paid holidays for full-time employees, with additional applicable paid leave programs.
Tech Stack
About Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. (FINRA)
FINRA is the U.S. self-regulatory organization for broker-dealers, writing and enforcing rules, examining firms, surveilling markets, and running investor tools like BrokerCheck. A nonprofit formed in 2007 and headquartered in Washington, DC, it oversees compliance for over 3,300 firms and 610,000 registered brokers. FINRA is funded by member assessments and regulatory fees rather than taxpayer dollars, and builds large-scale data and surveillance systems used across U.S. securities markets.