At Early Warning, we’ve powered and protected the U.S. financial system for over thirty years with cutting-edge solutions like Zelle®, Paze℠, and so much more. As a trusted name in payments, we partner with thousands of institutions to increase access to financial services and protect transactions for hundreds of millions of consumers and small businesses.
Positions located in Scottsdale, San Francisco, Chicago, or New York follow a hybrid work model to allow for a more collaborative working environment.
Candidates responding to this posting must independently possess the eligibility to work in the United States, for any employer, at the date of hire. This position is ineligible for employment Visa sponsorship.
Overall Purpose
This position consults with Project Management, Product Management, Product Development and Engineering teams to enable them to build and enhance security in EWS products and Services in line with EWS and Industry standards. This position is highly technical and will lead Product Security efforts in maturing our product security program, mentor others and be a hands-on partner to our product teams to deliver innovative and secure products to our customers.
Essential Functions
- Lead efforts for development and implementation of repeatable application security architecture patterns working with internal and external partners to ensure that systems are placed within the relevant security zones based on the data they house and their purpose.
- Develop Threat Models, design and develop Security architectures and publish reference architecture/patterns implementations for Products and drive companywide adoptions
- Document and present risks and security issues that could impact the confidentiality, integrity and/or availability of the business (both internally and externally) by assisting in documentation, tracking and creating solutions for mitigation.
- Drive and Develop reference engineering implementations of Security patterns and Security Guardrails into Software frameworks and technology stack.
- Design and implement Security technology and security control design proof of concepts and implementations.
- Contribute and drive integration of Secure Development lifecycle into product implementation and engineering efforts.
- Manages efforts with Product Development and Engineering teams to perform security analysis on all internally developed products and services.
- Owns and strengthens EWS DevSecOps security strategy and posture by designing, advocating and helping build secure-by-default CI/CD pipelines and processes
- Identifies opportunities for automation, develop and build integrations for security automated scans and establishes patterns for product and infrastructure automated security
- Owns, builds and takes initiative to design automation in and improvements in the build and deployment pipelines that are part of Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Deployment (CD)
- Provides technical guidance and foster a collective understanding of secure development and deployment of products and infrastructure
- Leads efforts to implement DevSecOps methodologies while addressing requirements and orchestrating security impact.
- Architects, designs and implements pipeline deployment via Gitlab, Harness and deployment of cloud native configuration management solutions using 3rd party tools
- Works with architecture teams to ensure that all newly developed and legacy applications and infrastructure implementations are in line with security policy and are compliance to the required frameworks (ISO, PCI, OWASP, NIST 800-53, etc.)
- Support the company’s commitment to risk management and protecting the integrity and confidentiality of systems and data.
Minimum Qualifications
- Education and experience typically obtained through completion of a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Math or Physical Science
- Minimum of 6 or more years of related experience.
- A combined 6 years of application security, Security Architecture, Consulting, related IT or Information Security experience.
- Experience in designing security for Cloud hosted products and containerized workloads
- Experience implementing security solutions that resolve security and business risk trade-offs
- Application development and/or Software Security background.
- Expertise in Threat Modeling and control implementation.
- Advanced knowledge of operating system, application, network, and database security architectures
- Knowledge of Security Integration into CI/CD and experience in driving CI/CD adaptation for Security controls
- Hands-on experience with a diverse range of cloud security technologies and access management, Kubernetes, mitigation, encryption technologies, security information, threat management and infrastructure as code (IaC).
- Demonstrate advanced understanding in the field of Information Security in terms of both concepts and technology.
Able to work with both technical and business stakeholder to design solutions that bring optimal security posture to products and infrastructure.
- Working knowledge of one or more general purpose programming/script languages including but not limited to Java, C/C++ and Python.
- Background and drug screen
Preferred Qualifications
- 2+ years of hands-on experience with DevSecOps tools like Gitlab, Harness, container security
- 4+ years of hands-on experience with DevOps or Product Security and cybersecurity domains like vulnerability management and system hardening compliance in hybrid cloud and on-prem environment.
- CEH/CPT, or CISSP or CSSLP Certification and one of GWEB, GCSAC (GIAC Cloud Security and DevSecOps Automation), CKS (Kubernetes Security Specialist), AWS Cloud practitioner, Solutions Architect or Security Specialist or recognized Application Security certification
- Familiarity and experience with Security tools for SAST, Composition analysis and runtime testing.
- In depth knowledge with public cloud architecture, such as GCP, AWS and Azure, and virtualization technologies, such as Kubernetes, VMware and OpenStack
- Expert level experience with defining and implementing security reference architectures and standards
- Experience supporting a Product through various Product Lifecycle stages as a Product Security SME
- In depth knowledge of threat model, network security, cryptography, authentication and authorization
- Experience performing threat modeling and design reviews to assess security implications and requirements
- Experience with automation tools and methodologies associated with DevOps and CI/CD pipelines
- Experience with enterprise architecture and partnering cross functionally
- Ability to establish priorities, work independently and proceed with objectives
- Experience with implementing common security frameworks and controls in highly automated environments, especially in CI/CD environments
The above job description is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of duties and standards of the position. Incumbents will follow instructions and perform other related duties as assigned by their supervisor.
Physical Requirements
Working conditions consist of a normal office environment. Work is primarily sedentary and requires extensive use of a computer and involves sitting for periods of approximately four hours. Work may require occasional standing, walking, kneeling, and reaching. Must be able to lift 10 pounds occasionally and/or negligible amount of force frequently. Requires visual acuity and dexterity to view, prepare, and manipulate documents and office equipment including personal computers. Requires the ability to communicate with internal and/or external customers.
Employee must be able to perform essential functions and physical requirements of position with or without reasonable accommodation.
The Pay Scale For This Position In
In USD per year is: $160,000 - $185,000, but will vary dependent on geographic location.
This pay scale is subject to change and is not necessarily reflective of actual compensation that may be earned, nor a promise of any specific pay for any specific candidate, which is always dependent on legitimate factors considered at the time of job offer. Early Warning Services takes into consideration a variety of factors when determining a competitive salary offer, including, but not limited to, the job scope, market rates and geographic location of a position, candidate’s education, experience, training, and specialized skills or certification(s) in relation to the job requirements and compared with internal equity (peers). The business actively supports and reviews wage equity to ensure that pay decisions are not based on gender, race, national origin, or any other protected classes.
Additionally, candidates are eligible for a discretionary bonus, and benefits. Be sure to check our Benefits page here for the latest. Our team can share more during the interview process!
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Early Warning Services, LLC (“Early Warning”) considers for employment, hires, retains and promotes qualified candidates on the basis of ability, potential, and valid qualifications without regard to race, religious creed, religion, color, sex, sexual orientation, genetic information, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, protected veteran or disability status or any factor prohibited by law, and as such affirms in policy and practice to support and promote equal employment opportunity and affirmative action, in accordance with all applicable federal, state, and municipal laws. The company also prohibits discrimination on other bases such as medical condition, marital status or any other factor that is irrelevant to the performance of our employees.
