Lead Information Security Engineer

About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking a motivated Lead Information Security Engineer to join an exciting, fast paced team working on cutting edge encryption, tokenization and key management technologies that are leveraged to protect information companywide.  This role will provide technical leadership, and be an individual contributor, to a team that specifically deals with the remediation of Vulnerabilities on internal assets.  Additional functions of this role include oversight of certain Governance, Risk and Compliance duties.  The ideal candidate will have demonstrated experience in the design and deployment of cryptographic products in physical, virtual, and containerized environments. The ideal candidate will also have demonstrated experience in automating processes including product builds, operational maintenance, and customer integration and onboarding.  This role reports directly to the Info Security Engineering Manager of the Cross Critical Security Infrastructure team.

In this role, you will:

• Troubleshoot and plan resolution steps to remediate vulnerabilities
• Work with partner teams to test, resolve, implement fixes, and produce evidence of successful fixes
• Provide technical guidance and oversight, as well as reporting for teams and team members responsible for Governance, Risk and Compliance matters
• Develop and maintain documentation including vulnerability remediation guides, automation guides and operational processes.
• Support company driven audits, gather evidence of compliance to company policies, and drive product enhancements, when needed, to remediate findings.
• Conduct technical investigation of incidents to identify causes and recommend future mitigation strategies.
• Collaborate across Wells Fargo teams, including compliance, security architecture and security evaluation teams to ensure cryptographic products are compliant to company policies.
• Work with partner engineering teams on identification and remediation of security vulnerabilities and may also conduct risk assessments of infrastructure to ensure compliance with corporate security policies and adherence to best practices.
• Support incident response, root cause analysis and corrective action activities.
• Oversee team of engineers and influence design/architecture decisions regarding encryption infrastructure to support our line of business customers.
• Consider blast radius and business resiliency requirements to reduce / eliminate impact during remediation efforts
• This role is not eligible for Visa sponsorship or transfer.
• Remote work is not available for this position.

Required Qualifications:

• 5 years of Information Security Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
• 5 years of intermediate to advanced level experience with scripting languages such as: Bash, PowerShell, Python, VBScript, or JavaScript, etc.
• 5 years of Linux and Windows server experience
• 4 years of experience with encryption or tokenization and key management technologies.
• 4 years of experience performing builds, administration and/or support of hardware security modules or security appliance devices
• 4 years of Advanced Knowledge of Cryptographic protocols & algorithms
• 4 Years of Understanding of (format preserving encryption) FPE, tokenization and TDE (transparent data encryption) etc.
• 3 years of Subject Matter Expert experience designing solutions for Data at Rest encryption.

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience with DevOps and CI/CD automated build and deployment processes
• Advanced scripting skills specifically around log rotation, data collection, error collection and alerting
• Experience designing, developing, and implementing synthetic transactions for the monitoring of applications and/or infrastructure
• Experience with Puppet/Chef/Ansible or similar automation tools.
• Experience with Agile Scrum or Kanban methodologies
• Public cloud engineering or support experience
• Experience performing technical product assessments, including development of implementation plans, in a large enterprise
• Security certifications such as CISSP, GIAC or equivalent
• Cloud certifications such as AZ-900, MS-900 or equivalent/higher
• Experience implementing infrastructure upgrades, security patches, or version upgrades
• Experience with Splunk
• Specific experience with Data at Rest solutions like Thales Vormetric DSM and CipherTrust Manager appliances
• Financial services industry experience
• Familiar with the Risk Management Framework and Vulnerability Management Life Cycle
• Understand the fundamentals of how vulnerabilities are exploited in systems including (but not limited to):  System Misconfigurations, Zero-Day Vulnerabilities, Denial or Service(DOS) or Distributed Denial of Service(DDoS), privilege escalation, unsupported or unpatched software, etc.

Job expectations:

• This role offers an in-office hybrid work schedule
• The role does not offer Visa sponsorship or transfers

Posting End Date: 

*Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.

We Value Diversity

At Wells Fargo, we believe in diversity, equity and inclusion in the workplace; accordingly, we welcome applications for employment from all qualified candidates, regardless of race, color, gender, national origin, religion, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, individuals with disabilities, pregnancy, marital status, status as a protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable law.

Employees support our focus on building strong customer relationships balanced with a strong risk mitigating and compliance-driven culture which firmly establishes those disciplines as critical to the success of our customers and company. They are accountable for execution of all applicable risk programs (Credit, Market, Financial Crimes, Operational, Regulatory Compliance), which includes effectively following and adhering to applicable Wells Fargo policies and procedures, appropriately fulfilling risk and compliance obligations, timely and effective escalation and remediation of issues, and making sound risk decisions. There is emphasis on proactive monitoring, governance, risk identification and escalation, as well as making sound risk decisions commensurate with the business unit’s risk appetite and all risk and compliance program requirements.

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