Alkami is a leading cloud-based digital banking solutions provider for financial institutions in the United States that helps clients to transform through retail and business banking, digital account opening and loan origination, payment fraud prevention, and data analytics and engagement solutions. Alkami’s Mobile App Platform has been certified by J.D. Power for providing clients with “An Outstanding Mobile Banking Platform Experience.”
Founded in 2009, we continue to be recognized for our intentional culture and tremendous growth (Best Place to Work in Fintech; Best & Brightest to Work For Nationally; and Comparably’s Best Company Culture, Best Career Growth, Best Engineering Team, and Best Places to Work in Dallas, among others). Through our bold investments in technology and people, we empower our clients to grow confidently, adapt quickly, and build thriving digital banking communities through tailored experiences for over 18.6M users.
As a remote-first company, this position can sit in Plano, TX or remote in the US.
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Position Overview
In this role, you will provide critical security knowledge, skills, and critical thinking to design and deploy technical and physical controls that mitigate security risks to our cloud digital banking solution and the enterprise. You will directly assist in the testing, selection, design, implementation, documentation, operation, and maintenance of various network and system security technologies. Additionally, you will advocate for industry standard practices within associated teams to further reduce the company's risk posture. As part of an elite team of security experts, you will partner in identifying threats, uncovering vulnerabilities, and designing and deploying mitigations and controls. This collaborative effort aims to keep our company, its employees, clients, and over 10 million end-users secure as they grow their digital banking relationship with us.
Key Responsibilities & Duties
- Design and maintain security solutions to reduce risk and increase visibility across the enterprise
- Monitor and evaluate threats to a public cloud SaaS banking platform
- Integrate security solutions with business process to reduce risk and increase visibility
- Mentor and educate the security team members and business on security best practices and strategic direction
Qualifications
The Alkami Security team aims to be one of the best in SaaS and Cloud Security. We continue to add to our team and are looking for Senior Security Engineer with the following skills:
- 2+ years of experience securing infrastructure in public cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure)
- 5+ years of experience deploying security controls such as Next Generation Firewalls (NGFW), IDS, or IPS, Next Gen AV, Email Gateways, Cloud Access Security Brokers, Cloud Security Posture Management, Vulnerability Management, and DNS security tools
- Experience managing public DNS, Content Delivery Networks, and Web application firewalls
- Experience in security engineering in an externally audited environment to industry standard baselines and audit requirements, such as PCI DSS 3.X, SOC 2 Type II, Sarbanes-Oxley, or ISO 27002
- Experience in vulnerability monitoring, threat analysis, incident response management, computer or network forensic investigation, or related and relevant security disciplines for a medium to large enterprise with responsibilities for a large attack surface area
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, Information Assurance, Information Security, Cybersecurity, or related field; OR equivalent self-study in cybersecurity with demonstrated command of key concepts and technologies and proficiency in digital forensics, incident response, secure application development, penetration testing, or other technical security risk management domains required
- Attention to detail, a high degree of urgency, a healthy degree of skepticism, and a strong passion for excellence in your work and in the security profession are key attributes for this role
Desired Skills
- Proven security domain knowledge through training and certifications like the CISSP, CISM, GCIH, GPEN, GSE, etc.
- The ability to systematically investigate and isolate security incidents in a complex environment
- Experience with Palo Alto and AWS cloud networking solutions
- Demonstrated ability to document and diagram processes, procedures, as well as proactively develop guidelines, standards, and baselines
- Ability to support an environment and projects that may require irregular or long working hours, such as to support the team through maintenance windows for planned upgrades and project milestones, and handle escalations of security concerns outside of normal working hours to address urgent situations
- Previous experience supporting and addressing security concerns in a multi-tenant, hosted solution in a cloud-based architecture
Cool Things to Know
Not Just Any Company: Alkami has an awesome diverse and inclusive environment. We have a FUN culture and offer great benefits, including remote-first environment, unlimited paid time off, 401(k) with employer match, and more.
Work Authorization: We cannot offer employment sponsorship at this time. Candidates must be eligible to work in the US for full-time employment.
Recruiters: We are not looking for outside recruiting firms to help us in this search. Thank you for understanding.
Pay Transparency: As of January 1, 2023, new states and locales have enacted pay equity laws that require more pay transparency by employers in the following states: California, Colorado (effective January 1, 2021), Connecticut, Maryland, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Rhode Island and Washington. [$95,752.00 - $143,628.00]
The Important Stuff
Alkami Technology is an Equal Opportunity Employer and Prohibits Discrimination and Harassment of Any Kind: Alkami is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at Alkami are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, national, social or ethnic origin, sex (including pregnancy), age, physical, mental or sensory disability, HIV Status, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital, civil union or domestic partnership status, past or present military service, family medical history or genetic information, family or parental status, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. Alkami will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics. Alkami encourages applicants of all ages.
J.D. Power 2024 Mobile App Platform Certification ProgramSM recognition is based on successful completion of an audit and exceeding a customer experience benchmark through a survey of recent servicing interactions. For more information, visit jdpower.com/awards.