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Job Title: Senior Information Security Engineer (Lead)
Location: Cincinnati, OH — Onsite

About the Role
A National Bank is building a new Information Security team and seeking a Senior Information Security Engineer to take a leadership role in shaping its security strategy, architecture, and operations. This individual will be responsible not only for hands-on security engineering but also for guiding junior engineers, establishing best practices, and ensuring alignment with enterprise risk and compliance objectives.
You will serve as a trusted advisor to technology leadership, drive the adoption of secure design patterns, and oversee implementation of modern security solutions to protect critical banking applications and customer data.

Key Responsibilities

• Leadership & Strategy
• Provide technical leadership to a growing security engineering team, mentoring junior staff and setting priorities.
• Partner with senior IT and business leaders to define and enforce the bank’s security roadmap.
• Lead security incident response processes and guide teams through remediation and postmortems.
• Engineering & Operations
• Design, implement, and maintain secure configurations for Web Application Firewalls (WAF), Bot mitigation tools, API gateways, CDN, ALB, TLS certificates, and caching services.
• Analyze network traffic patterns to identify malicious activity or misconfigurations, and design mitigations.
• Drive secure integration of AWS cloud services, networking, and application components.
• Collaborate with application teams to ensure secure and compliant infrastructure solutions.
• Define and enforce security standards, policies, and procedures.
• Risk & Compliance
• Conduct regular reviews of systems for compliance with established standards and regulatory requirements.
• Partner with audit, risk, and compliance teams to demonstrate adherence to frameworks (PCI-DSS, SOX, FFIEC, NIST, etc.).
• Maintain awareness of emerging threats and recommend proactive improvements.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or equivalent work experience.
• 5+ years of experience in information security engineering, with at least 2 years in a lead or senior role.
• Strong expertise in networking protocols (TCP/UDP, HTTP/HTTPS, DNS, CDN), AWS cloud security, and application security.
• Proficiency in Python and Java for security automation and integration.
• Hands-on experience with WAFs, Bot mitigation, API security, TLS certificates, and CDN configurations.
• Demonstrated success mentoring engineers and influencing stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications

• CISSP or equivalent certification.
• Experience in financial services or other highly regulated industries.
• Familiarity with DevSecOps practices and CI/CD pipeline integration.

 
What You'll Get
 
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• Competitive base salary
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance coverage
• Optional life and disability insurance provided
• 401(k) with a company match and optional profit sharing
• Paid vacation time
• Paid Bench time
• Training allowance offering
• You'll be eligible to earn referral bonuses!

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