Senior Security Application Admin

Your Opportunity

At Schwab, you're empowered to make an impact on your career. Here, innovative thought meets creative problem solving, helping us "challenge the status quo" and transform the finance industry together.

Security Production Engineering (SPE) is a pivotal component of our organizations' cyber security resilience, acting as a core contributor in enhancing the efficiency, effectiveness, scalability, and resilience of our cyber security infrastructure. We delve into the heart of security platforms, employing our superior cyber expertise to provide unique business value and ensure the company's robust digital defenses.

As a member of the SPE team, you will play a crucial role in enhancing our cyber security infrastructure, both in design and support perspectives. This is your chance to support and contribute to delivery of our cyber security strategy and make an impact that goes beyond your immediate environment. This role is an opportunity to exhibit your high standard of technical and interpersonal judgment, engage and influence peers collaboratively, and contribute to our organizational security objectives. You'll address technical security issues, manage cyber security risk, and design the infrastructure to implement and maintain cyber security applications and platforms.

Your unique perspective will contribute to improving our documentation and processes, as well as the design and execution of key deliverables within assigned technologies. As a knowledge manager, you'll grow into a subject matter expert, developing technical operating procedures and ensuring a complete understanding of our product suite. As a senior engineer, you'll strive to exceed expectations and deliver on security technical program initiatives within time and resource constraints.

What you have

Required Qualifications

• A bachelor's degree in computer science, cyber security, or equivalent; Or 6-8 years' work experience in the cyber security and infrastructure engineering fields

• A minimum of 5 years' experience in cyber security engineering, with a focus on the selection, design, deployment, maintenance, and operations of security tools across various domains such as operations and visibility, data protection, vulnerability management, endpoint data protection, authentication, and authorization

• 3-5 years of experience with Linux including server hardening, user rights, interpretation of system logs, and automation of tasks

• 3-5 years of experience with Windows system administration skills, including system logs, registry, LDAP and Active Directory integration

• 2-5 years of experience scripting/automation in Perl, BASH, Python or other shell scripting languages with a focus on system administration

• Familiarity with commercial encryption and tokenization security concepts

• Hands-on experience with data protection technologies including tokenization and encryption

• 2+ years of experience following ITIL Change Management practices and processes

• Cyber Security and/or other IT systems certification

• Highly effective communication skills (both written and oral)

Preferred Qualifications

• Security management certification (CISSP, CISM, CISA, or equivalent)

• IT/Security Certifications like (Security+, Network+, SANS certifications, etc.)

• Knowledge of compliance and legal requirements including PCI, SOX, GLBA, GDPR.

• An understanding of cybersecurity frameworks such as NIST CSF, CIS Critical Security Controls, NIST 800-53.

• Basic experience with utilizing active directory structures and authentication

• Hands-on experience with designing and supporting load balancing and high availability / disaster recovery.

• Experience with creating documents within Atlassian tooling such as Confluence and Jira

• Exceptional communication skills for clear, concise interactions across all organization levels.

• High emotional intelligence to manage and understand both personal and team dynamics.

• Strong problem-solving and analytical capabilities, crucial for troubleshooting and innovation.

• Ability to adapt swiftly to changing priorities and maintain performance across multiple projects.

• An empathetic listener, capable of understanding and translating stakeholder requirements into practical solutions.

• Resilient, self-starter, able to work with limited supervision, and able to work well with others in a team environment as either a leader or contributor.

• Experience in a corporate environment with:

• Delivering exceptional customer service

• Balancing business needs versus security requirements

• Strong project management and documentation skills

• Superior attention to details, analytical thinker, problem solver

• Ability to work well with and communicate effectively with all levels within the organization

• Ability to quickly grasp the big picture, yet remain focused on coordinating tasks at the detailed-level