Sr Associate Information Security Details

Santander Bank - Dallas, TX

Employment Type : Full-Time

Description

Summary of Responsibilities:

The Sr. Associate, Information Security serves in a technical capacity in evaluating and designing security solutions and works with technicians throughout the program in implementing, maintaining and constantly improving the information security practice while managing and maintaining our efforts in the areas of Information Security, Governance, Risk and Compliance. S/he provides patches and upgrades to existing systems, designs web-based, mobile technology, cloud, and security interface to meet the specific needs of users, prepares operating instructions, compiles documentation of program development, and analyzes system capabilities to resolve questions of program intent, output requirements, input data acquisition, programming techniques, and controls.

Essential Functions:

  • Provides direction and acts as an escalation point on projects and issues to other team members.
  • Interacts with partners as needed to explain work product, security techniques, methodology and results to ensure appropriate business value.
  • Acts as senior resource for incident response related activities. Collaborates with technical teams for security incident remediation and communication.
  • Acts as influencer of peers and management.
  • Oversees management and deployment of security infrastructure including Vulnerability Management, WAF, Network Monitoring, Logging correlation, DDOS prevention and IPS/IDS.
  • Provides technical security consulting support to address complex business and technology projects and requests.
  • Contributes to strategic planning to evaluate, deploy or update security technologies.
  • Analyzes and implements security solutions to meet customer requirements.
  • Conducts risk assessments to evaluate the effectiveness of existing controls and determine the impact of proposed changes to business processes, applications and systems.
  • Promotes cross-department collaboration and communication to ensure appropriate processes, procedures and tools are installed, monitored, and effectively operating and alerting.
  • Allocates and prioritizes security resources efficiently within the organization managing both resources and budgets.
  • Conducts security research on threats and remediation methods.
  • Develops and maintains a set of operational and forward looking security metrics.
  • Conducts proof of concepts, vendor comparisons and recommend solutions in line with business requirements.
  • Oversees daily monitoring of security reports to identify issues and follow these issues to resolution.
  • Oversees security projects and the security testing of new and existing applications.
  • Prepares system security reports by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing data and trends; presents reporting for management review.
  • Creates process improvement by identifying inefficiencies and solutions for process improvements.
  • Writes clear implementation guidelines for the implementation engineers.
  • Guides and confirms that the design has been implemented as per the requirements.
  • Updates job knowledge by tracking and understanding emerging security practices and standards; participating in educational opportunities; reading professional publications; maintaining personal networks; participating in professional organizations.
  • Acts as a subject matter expert (SME) while providing leadership, guidance, and mentorship to other team members.
  • Other duties as assigned.


Requirements:

  • Education -
    • Bachelor's Degree: Computer Science or equivalent major.
    • or equivalent work experience
  • Experience -
    • 9-12 years Experience in IT Security.
    • Working as a security Architect.
    • Experience with CheckPoint, Palo Alto, FireEye, Imperva, Security Center, Splunk.
    • Strong knowledge of PCI, SOX, ISO and NIST security standards.
    • Experience with managing enterprise security projects.
    • Experience with penetration testing.
  • Skills & Abilities -
    • Knowledge of risk assessment tools, technologies, and methods
    • Experience planning, researching and developing security strategies, standards, and procedures
    • Exceptional organizational skills and attention to detailbility to work cooperatively in a team environment
    • Ability to work cooperatively in a team environment
    • Strong understanding of security, incident response and/or networking/PC concepts
    • Proven ability to understand and analyze complex issues, then apply experience and judgment to develop sound recommendations especially as related to malware, eDiscovery, current threats/attacks and/or vulnerability management
    • Ability to communicate concisely, effectively and directly to executive management
    • Proven relationship building skills working with mid to senior level management and cross-functional teams; strong understands risks; additional focus on leadership; strong interpersonal skills; delivers precise, accurate results to meet commitments; mentors other team membe
    • Demonstrated presentation development; tailors message as needed; comfortable presenting to all levels; strong writing skills; demonstrates creativity in articulating messages that support recommendations
  • Licenses & Certifications -
    • Vendor security certifications or project management certification, a plus


Working Conditions:

  • Frequently: Minimal physical effort such as sitting, standing, and walking.
  • Occasional moving and lifting of equipment and furniture is required to support onsite and offsite meeting setup and teardown.
  • Physically capable of lifting up to fifty pounds, able to bend, kneel, climb ladders.


Employer’s Rights:

  • This job description does not list all the duties of the job. You may be asked by your supervisors or managers to perform other duties. You will be evaluated in part based upon your performance of the tasks listed in this job description.
  • The employer has the right to revise this job description at any time. This job description is not a contract for employment, and either you or the employer may terminate employment at any time, for any reason.

At Santander, we value and respect differences in our workforce and strive to increase the diversity of our teams. We actively encourage everyone to apply.

Employees desiring consideration should complete an online application, utilizing the appropriate process as subscribed by the posting entity. Employees should provide all pertinent information to support their candidacy.

To be considered eligible for internal posting, Santander employees must meet all of the following eligibility requirements:

  • Completion of at least one year of active service in Santander
  • Completion of at least twelve months in current position
  • Be in "Good Standing"

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Posted on : 3 years ago