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Senior Cybersecurity Engineer- AppSec

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Chicago, IL
127K-160K Annually
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As a Senior Cybersecurity Engineer, oversee application security, develop security solutions, manage incident responses, and mentor junior staff while collaborating with Development and Engineering teams.
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At Beyond Finance, we've made it our mission to help everyday Americans escape the endless cycle of crippling debt and step into a brighter financial future. Through compassionate, individualized care, a culture focused on compliance and ethics, supportive user-centric technology, and customized financial solutions, we've helped over 700,000 clients on their path to a brighter future.

While we're proud of what we've already accomplished, we're searching for new collaborators to help us get to the next level! If you're looking to join a forward-thinking, rapidly growing organization with helping people as its number one goal, we want to hear from you.

 

About the Role

Beyond Finance is expanding it's security team and maturing it's security posture for our application security program. As a Senior Cybersecurity Engineer, you take ownership of safeguarding our infrastructure, partner with the development team and other stakeholders to fine tune our processes. You’ll be instrumental in maturing our security posture, driving automation, and influencing best practices across the organization. While AppSec is the main hat that this person will wear, we foster a team mindset at Beyond Finance. You may also spend time helping the rest of the team with vulnerability management, GRC, alerting and monitoring, and any other tasks that are mission critical. 

What You'll Do
  • Architect and implement cloud-native security solutions that address organizational needs and mitigate risks across applications, networks and systems.
  • Enforce, tune, manage WAF controls (web application firewall) with Cloudflare.
  • Integrate and manage tools like Wiz, Datadog SIEM, and other modern security platforms.
  • Drive security best practices across the CI/CD pipeline and DevSecOps initiatives.
  • Develop threat models and security standards, recommend security controls and integrate security measures into system, infrastructure and application designs.
  • Lead Zero Trust architecture initiatives, ensuring secure access and identity-first controls across systems by implementing access management controls such as RBAC, SSO, IAM, CASB, CISM.
  • Collaborate with DevOps, Infrastructure, and Engineering teams to build secure-by-design systems.
  • Conduct risk assessments, vulnerability management, penetration testing and security incident investigations.
  • Automate security tasks and integrate tooling into existing cloud and application environments.
  • Provide mentorship to junior team members and serve as a subject matter expert on cloud security.
What We Look For
  • 5+ years in cybersecurity, with at least 3+ years of AWS security engineering experience.
  • Robust knowledge of application security (AppSec) practices and Zero Trust frameworks.
  • Experience with implementing, crafting, tuning, and enforcing WAF controls (web application firewalls).
  • Deep expertise in AWS security, Wiz, Datadog SIEM, or comparable cloud-native security tools.
  • Strong understanding of IAM, VPC security, KMS, and other core AWS security services.
  • Proven experience with application security, including SAST, DAST, threat modeling, and SDLC integration.
  • Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation) and automation (Python, Bash).
  • Experience working in highly regulated or compliance-heavy environments (PCI-DSS, SOC 2, ISO 27001, etc.).
  • Excellent communication skills with the ability to clearly convey complex technical concepts.
Preferred Areas of Expertise 
  • AWS Security Specialty certification or equivalent.
  • Professional security certifications (CISSP, CCSP, CISM).
  • Experience with ECS, Kubernetes security and container security best practices.
  • Experience with mobile application security programs.
  • Knowledge of compliance and regulatory frameworks like NIST, CIS Benchmarks, and GDPR.
  • Previous experience working with SaaS or fast-growing tech companies.

The base annual salary range is listed below. This role is eligible for additional incentives, including an annual bonus.

Base Salary Range
$127,000$160,000 USD

Why Join Us?

While you make a difference for others, we’ll work to make a difference for you, providing an uplifting, collaborative work environment and benefits that reflect your value to us. For eligible full-time employees, we offer:

  • Considerable employer contributions for health, dental, and vision programs
  • Generous PTO, paid holidays, and paid parental leave
  • 401(k) matching program
  • Merit advancement opportunities
  • Career development & training

And finally, our team spirit and culture! We cultivate an environment of community, connection, and belonging across our entire organization.

Beyond Finance does not accept unsolicited resumes from individual recruiters or third-party recruiting agencies in response to job positions.  No fee will be paid to their parties who submit unsolicited candidates directly to Beyond Finance employees or the Beyond Finance HR team.  No placement fee will be paid to any third party unless such a request has been made by the Beyond HR team.

Top Skills

AWS
Bash
CloudFormation
Datadog Siem
GCP
Python
Terraform
Wiz

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