USAmeriBancorp

Principal Security Engineer

USAmeriBancorp • $135K — $160K *
Morristown, NJ 07960In-Person
Information Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
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Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Minimum 10 years in information security, focused on enterprise vulnerability management in hybrid environments.
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or Cybersecurity.
  • Expertise in threat modeling, risk management, and secure cloud architecture principles.
  • Thorough understanding of OWASP top 10 and application security principles.
  • Strong analytical skills for vulnerability prioritization and risk assessment.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication, facilitating cross-functional collaboration.
  • Ability to manage multiple priorities and lead complex discussions.

Responsibilities

  • Establish and maintain comprehensive security engineering capabilities and processes.
  • Assess and secure emerging technologies, including AI and machine learning solutions.
  • Lead and evolve enterprise security architecture and cyber risk management.
  • Drive risk-based security assessments across various platforms and infrastructures.
  • Design and implement security controls aligned to Zero Trust principles.
  • Develop security architecture standards ensuring regulatory compliance.
  • Own API Security and Integration Governance, defining security standards and configurations.

Benefits

  • Opportunities for professional development and growth.
  • Access to cutting-edge security technologies and methodologies.
  • Collaborative work environment with cross-functional teams.
  • Mentorship opportunities and leadership development programs.
Full Job Description
Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
  • Establish and maintain security engineering capabilities and processes, including vulnerability management, secure configuration management, patch governance, security testing, penetration testing remediation, secure software development practices, and security automation.
  • Assess, secure, and govern emerging technologies, including AI and machine learning solutions, establishing security requirements, risk frameworks, data protection controls, model governance practices, and responsible AI security standards across the organization.
  • Lead and evolve enterprise security architecture, engineering, and cyber risk management capabilities, establishing strategy, standards, and roadmaps across vulnerability management, cloud security, application security, infrastructure security, identity security, and emerging technology domains.
  • Drive risk-based security assessments and remediation efforts across infrastructure, cloud platforms, applications, endpoints, identities, and external attack surfaces, partnering with Engineering, IT, Product, and business stakeholders to reduce enterprise risk and improve security resilience.
  • Design, implement, and govern security controls aligned to Zero Trust principles, including identity and access management, privileged access management, authentication and authorization models, conditional access policies, segmentation strategies, and continuous verification approaches.
  • Develop and maintain security architecture standards, reference designs, and engineering patterns for cloud, infrastructure, applications, APIs, data protection, identity services, and AI-enabled solutions, ensuring alignment with business objectives and regulatory requirements.
  • Own API Security and Integration Governance, defining security standards, configuration baselines, and architectural guardrails while ensuring secure API authentication, authorization, encryption, traffic management, and onboarding of new services across enterprise environments.
  • Enhance security visibility, telemetry, and automation by integrating security platforms, cloud inventories, asset management systems, identity platforms, AI-powered analytics, ticketing systems, and operational workflows to improve detection, prioritization, and response capabilities.
  • Provide technical security leadership, governance, and strategic direction, developing executive-level metrics and risk reporting, supporting audit and regulatory readiness, serving as a subject matter expert across security architecture, engineering, identity, and vulnerability management, and mentoring team members on security best practices and innovation.


Required Skills:
  • Deep knowledge of enterprise vulnerability management frameworks, processes, and lifecycle management across infrastructure, cloud, application, endpoint environments.
  • Strong understanding of asset management concepts, including ITAM, CMDB, asset ownership and lifecycle governance.
  • Expert knowledge in threat modeling and risk management.
  • Strong understanding of secure cloud architecture principles, shared responsibility models, common cloud configuration risks.
  • Strong analytical skills to correlate vulnerability data, asset criticality and exposure to drive meaningful prioritization.
  • Familiarity with OWASP top 10 and web application security principles
  • Strong knowledge of application security, web and application design, databases, operating systems, hypervisors, IP networks, microservices, container technology, system integration technologies and securing cloud-based applications.
  • Strong understanding of banking regulations and third-party risk.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
  • Strong interpersonal skills to facilitate building positive working relationships at all levels within the bank.
  • Ability to handle multiple priorities simultaneously.
  • Ability to lead cross-functional discussions, remediation working sessions, and status forums to drive accountability and reduce risk.

Required Experience:
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Cybersecurity, or equivalent experience. Minimum of 10 years of experience in information security, with significant depth in enterprise vulnerability management within complex, hybrid environments.

Preferred Experience:
  • Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Cybersecurity and experience in regulated industries such as financial services. Minimum of 5 years of experience designing, operating and maturing vulnerability management programs.
  • Industry certifications such as CISSP, CISM, CRISC, or relevant GIAC certifications.

About USAmeriBancorp

Valley National Bancorp, doing business as Valley Bank, is a regional bank holding company headquartered in Wayne, New Jersey with approximately $42 billion in assets. Its principal subsidiary, Valley National Bank, currently operates over 230 branch locations in northern and central New Jersey, the New York City boroughs of Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens, as well as Long Island, Florida, and Alabama. Valley Bank holds approximately $29 billion in assets. ,Valley Bank is one of the largest commercial banks headquartered in New Jersey.
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