Vice President, Cyber & Network Security Engineer

About CLS:

CLS is the trusted party at the centre of the global FX ecosystem. Utilized by thousands of counterparties, CLS makes FX safer, smoother and more cost effective. Trillions of dollars’ worth of currency flows through our systems each day.

Created by the market for the market, our unrivalled global settlement infrastructure reduces systemic risk and provides standardization for participants in many of the world’s most actively traded currencies. We deliver huge efficiencies and savings for our clients: in fact, our approach to multilateral netting shrinks funding requirements by over 96% on average, so clients can put their capital and resources to better use.

CLS products are designed to enable clients to manage risk most effectively across the full FX lifecycle – whether through more efficient processing tools or market intelligence derived from the largest single source of FX executed data available to the market.

Job information:

• Functional title – Cyber & Network Security Engineer
• Department - CISO
• Corporate level – Vice President
• Report to - Cyber & Network Security Engineering Lead
• Location – Iselin, New Jersey. On Site 2 days per week.
• Expected full-time salary range between $170,000 - $190,000 + variable compensation + 401(k) match + benefits.

Note: Disclosure as required by NY Pay Transparency Law of the expected salary compensation range for this role.

What you will be doing:

The Vice President (VP), Security Engineering is a senior technical engineering role responsible for leading the deployment, automation, and operational support of enterprise security platforms and controls. Ideally the candidate will have AWS cloud infrastructure security tooling integration, security automation experience.

This role requires a hands-on engineer who can build and deploy AWS-based environments to evaluate, test, and design and operationalize new security technologies and engineer off the shelf security tools. They will lead and mentor the junior engineers. Curiosity to learn, get stuck in and get things delivered.

Key Responsibilities:

Security Engineering & Tool Deployment

• Design, build and configuring and maintain enterprise security platforms and services.
• Have experience with some or all the following products
• Splunk Enterprise / Splunk Cloud
• Forcepoint Web Security
• Forcepoint Email Security & DLP
• Zscaler DLP and Internet Access
• Microsoft Purview DLP
• Qualys VMDR
• Crowdstrike Faclon
• Additional threat detection, monitoring, and data protection technologies.
• Troubleshoot platform, infrastructure, and integration issues across security ecosystems.
• Work with infrastructure engineering on infrastructure deliverables ensuring that security is engineered into their solutions.
• Provide senior leadership and guidance to the wider engineering community.

AWS Infrastructure Engineering

• Help build and manage AWS environments used for proof-of-concepts, product evaluation, security testing, and production deployments.
• Develop repeatable Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) capabilities for rapid deployment of security tooling.
• Engineer secure cloud architectures incorporating:
• EC2
• VPCs
• Security Groups
• IAM
• Route53
• S3
• Lambda
• CloudWatch
• GuardDuty
• AWS Organizations
• Support secure cloud adoption initiatives and platform modernization programs.

Security Automation & Development

• Develop automation solutions using Python to reduce operational overhead and improve security effectiveness.
• Create and maintain scripts, APIs, orchestration workflows, and automation frameworks for:
• Security tool deployment
• Configuration management
• Monitoring and alerting
• Compliance validation
• Asset discovery
• Data collection and reporting
• Integrate security tooling with enterprise workflows and operational platforms.

Security Monitoring & Detection Engineering

• Design and implement security monitoring use cases.
• On board new log sources.
• Develop Splunk searches, correlation rules, dashboards, and reporting capabilities.
• Improve threat detection coverage through security telemetry integration and log onboarding.
• Partner with Cyber Defense teams to improve detection engineering and incident response capabilities.

Data Protection Engineering

• Deploy and manage enterprise Data Loss Prevention (DLP) solutions.
• Configure and optimize:
• Forcepoint DLP
• Microsoft Purview DLP
• Zscaler DLP
• Work with data owners and security archi…