Lead Security Engineer
Avant is a high growth financial technology company, dedicated to lowering the barriers of borrowing for all consumers. Since 2012, Avant has secured more than $4 billion in funding and connected customers to over $5 billion through 800,000 transactions and counting. Through big data and machine learning, Avant’s mission is to provide better access to responsible financial products. Avant has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, TechCrunch, Fortune, Bloomberg, and has raised over $600 million of equity capital. Visit www.avant.com, for more information.
Job Description
The Lead Security Engineer will develop and manage Avant’s Security Operations capability. Avant is a digitally native enterprise with cutting edge controls at your disposal. The Lead Engineer will have the opportunity to shape the direction of an operations and response team for a rapidly growing business via a combination of high calibre talent, open source and best of breed commercial technologies.
What you do at Avant:
- Exercise and execute incident response plans in response to suspected security incidents
- Develop, augment or implement open-source and third-party controls to assist in detection, prevention and analysis of security threats.
- Deliver practical awareness training of the workforce on information security standards, policies and best practices through internal exercises
- Work through third party service providers to tune controls, manage efficacy of controls and execute on necessary changes and updates to respond to threats in the environment
- Conduct continuous network scans for vulnerabilities and exposures to ensure reduced attack surface and regulatory compliance.
- Conduct internal and external red cell exercises, simulating attacks on infrastructure to find exploitable weaknesses
- Monitor networks and systems for security breaches, through the use of detective controls and anomalous system and user behavior
- Investigate security events of interest
- Coordinate incident response, including steps to minimize the impact and then conducting a technical and forensic investigation into how the breach happened and the extent of the damage
Why you are a fit for Avant:
- Bachelor's Degree in Information Security or related field
- Interest or experience in people management
- Proven experience in a security operations environment in the financial services industry
- Ability to think analytically to identify security issues and propose compensating controls
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
- Strong facilitation skills with a proven track record of working calmly under pressure
- Experience working with external law enforcement entities and intelligence services
- Experience working in a regulated environment
- Experience interpreting revising plans and procedures
Why Avant is a fit for you:
At Avant, we believe our values make a difference:
We value, support, and help each other grow
We are committed to active inclusion and diversity
We are transparent and believe the best idea wins
We succeed when our customers succeed
We get sh!t done… responsibly
And we keep it fun!
We believe that ideas are more important than titles, everything is more fun together, everyone drives change, and everyone is an owner. While we believe the perks and benefits that we offer are terrific, nothing excites us more than having the ability to collaborate with intelligent, highly-motivated and talented people on challenging problems as we work to change the face of online lending.