Principal Information Security Specialist

Job description
We’re currently partnering with an industry-leading financial organization on an exciting journey of innovation and transformation — and we’d love for you to be part of it.

They’re looking for a skilled VP- Principal Information Security Specialis t role to join their dynamic team. This is a fantastic opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies, contribute to high-impact projects, and collaborate with some of the sharpest minds in the industry. The role is central to enhancing operational excellence and delivering key solutions within the FIC Markets space.

Roles & Responsblities:

Desired Skills / Knowledge Covered:

• Engineering and Architecture experience on leading Security Information & Event Management solutions

• Experience with Threat Detection and Response solutions

• Good experience in Cloud SIEM Solutions like - Microsoft Azure Security Solutions

• Good experience in cybersecurity with Considerable years spent in Security Architecture.

• Good experience in developing RFI for Security Solutions and evaluating RFP’s for security solutions.

• Experience in designing of standalone security solutions and embedding security in large scale programmes.

• Architect, Design and manage deployments of SIEM & Threat Detection and Response (TDR) tools.

• Experience in SOAR deployment, workflow design, and playbook mapping, with an emphasis on integrating SIEM and SOAR capabilities into security operations.

• Good exposure to designing, building, and maintaining scalable data pipelines that allow for efficient and infrastructure to support our data-driven initiatives.

• Good experience for designing large datalake, managing data flows that integrate information from the various sources in a common poll implementing data pipelines based on the ETL model.

• Plan, research and design robust security architectures for IT projects

• Demonstrate strong technical understanding of IT systems, cloud and mobile technologies.

• Responsible for applying appropriate architectural and security frameworks and methodologies to deliver cyber security capabilities within the firm. This will involve influencing technology stakeholders across a variety of areas to ensure that business and security subjects are met.

• Develop the security architectural standards, reference architectures, subdomain strategies and roadmaps, which will be used to define the security principles and constructs.

• Provide thought leadership to the organization on cyber security.

• Guide the organization in establishing policies, standards, and procedures which foster built-in security.

• Solid grasp of security standard methodologies

• Proven implementation of cloud security models, particularly identity, network, and encryption

• Business case development skills for justifying, prioritizing & forecasting the funding requirements for security programs and initiatives.

• Expertise in FLEXConnector framework development and strong Regex skills required

• Good command on Python, Perl, SQL, Regex and Shell Scripting is preferred

• Experience installing and maintaining open source log capture technologies such as Syslog-NG, Snare, LogStash, MSCOM etc is preferred

• Very Good Communication skills, Documentation and Presentation skills.

Skills & Experience At least 8+ years of experience in Engineering, Designing and Architecture experience on leading Security Information & Event Management (SIEM) solutions; experience in a leadership role is preferred