Velera

Financial Services

ITRiskMitigationEngineerII

$76–97k United States FULL TIME Remote Friendly
Market Sentiment
HIGH DEMAND

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The Brief

“IT Risk Mitigation Engineer II at Velera. Skills: Risk Mitigation, Vulnerability Management, IT Security, Compliance. Assist in core RM team functions. Act as technical support specialist”

What You'll Achieve.

Overall reductions in vulnerabilities

Industry & Context.

Financial Services
Problems you'll solve

Identify vulnerabilities; Research vulnerabilities; Resolve findings

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

2+ years of experience in vulnerability management, Knowledge of Windows/Linux server OS, Knowledge of cloud computing, Knowledge of networking, Knowledge of application development, Experience reviewing vulnerability scans, Experience with penetration tests, Experience with network admission control, Experience with SIEM systems, Experience with IT controls monitoring, Knowledge of vulnerability data management, Knowledge of reporting process automation, Functional knowledge of information security best practices, Functional knowledge of ITIL principles

Nice to Have

Associates degree in IT discipline, Relevant industry certifications, Experience with Tanium, Knowledge of OWASP tools, Knowledge of scripting languages, Experience with ServiceNow

What You'll Do.

Assist in core RM team functions

Act as technical support specialist

Promote directives for vulnerability management

Focus on hands-on solutions and tools

Track vulnerabilities

Report on vulnerabilities

Shape and guide remediation solutions

Provide actionable reporting

Implement best practices configurations

Perform timely patching

Reduce vulnerabilities

Collaborate with Security and IT Infrastructure

Maintain remediation requirements

Implement remediation requirements

Identify vulnerabilities

Research vulnerabilities

Partner with technology teams

Maintain vulnerability management programs

Support vulnerability management programs

Identify security vulnerabilities

Resolve security vulnerability findings

Assist with resolution of findings

Align scanning and reporting

Comply with best-practices

Comply with regulations

Comply with standards

Improve reporting maturity

Perform recurring scanning

Perform on-demand scanning

Scan organization systems

Scan cloud environments

Maintain threat management standards

Maintain threat management policies

Maintain threat management procedures

Improve vulnerability management systems

Automate vulnerability management systems

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

IT infrastructure teams; Application teams; Security teams; Technology teams

Communication Scope

Written communication; Verbal communication

Full Job Description

# **Join the People Helping People** Velera is the nation’s premier payments credit union service organization (CUSO) and an integrated fintech solutions provider. The company serves more than 4,000 financial institutions throughout North America, operating with velocity to help our clients keep pace with the rapid momentum of change and fuel growth in the new era of financial services. Our purpose: We accelerate partners’ success through innovative financial technology solutions and inspired service. **The Opportunity:** As a Risk Mitigation Engineer II, the incumbent will be responsible for assisting in the core, day-to-day functions of the Risk Mitigation (RM) team. In this role the incumbent acts as a technical support specialist within the larger RM team. This role will promote directives within the team to support IT infrastructure and application teams across the organization to ensure a risk-based approach to vulnerability management is embedded into their daily work. The RM Engineer II will focus the majority of their time on hands-on solutions and tools, such as those that are typically used for monitoring, assessment, tracking, and reporting. The ideal candidate will have excellent technical, organizational, and communication (written and verbal) skills, along with a willingness to assist where needed with overall team tasks. A sense of ownership, and a want and willingness to learn, assume new responsibilities, and an overall initiative-based drive are keys to success in this position and successive/advanced roles within the team. **Day in the Life:** * Assume a critical, supportive, technical role within the RM team. Assist both technical and team initiatives to shape and guide the focus and execution of remediation solutions that provide effective, accurate, comprehensive, and actionable reporting, best practices configurations, timely patching, etc., toward a goal of overall reductions in vulnerabilities across all department accountable technologies.

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