Senior Vice President - Lead Security Engineer

 

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We’re seeking a future team member for the role of Senior Vice President - Lead Security Engineer to join our Technology Information Security Division Cyber Technology team. This role is located in New York City, NY

In this role, you’ll make an impact in the following ways:

• Cyber Technologies Engineering, analysis, design, onboarding, and production support 
• Mitigate systemic outages, reliability impact of critical Cyber Security Technology Platforms
• Analyze deep level problems, evaluate technical issues, test, maintain, modify, integrate, monitor and ensure to automate software systems.
• Engineering Control Break Detection Techniques
• Assessment of relevant Cyber Security Industry Solutions
• Responsible for design, development, testing and implementation of Cyber solutions that will interact with multiple third party applications
• Scripting Experience - Python
• Lead the engineering, design, onboarding, and production support of enterprise security technologies.
• Own the architecture, deployment, and lifecycle management of secuirty platforms
• Defining and measuring Service Level Objectives as agreed with stakeholders.
• Contribute to the Incident management mitigation and post-mortems.
• Involvement in system design, platform management, and capacity planning.
• Uplifting Operational Excellence
• Research, present, document, and detail engineering and solutions 
• Manage complex and diverse enterprise cyber security tools including but not limited to SIEM, Vuln Scanning, EDR, packet capture, etc. 
• Implement config management to large platforms and devops lifecycle tools  
• Mentoring and training junior technical team members

To be successful in this role, we’re seeking the following: 

• Bachelors of Science degree in Computer Science/Information Systems or related technical field involving systems coding/engineering, or equivalent work experience 
• Reliability Engineering (SRE)
• Proficiency in large data mining with query or search languages such as SQL, Splunk SPL, etc
• Experience with configuration management across large scale systems
• Proficiency in one or more of the following: Python, Go, C, C# Java, Perl, Ruby, or any other non-shell script language
• Experience with AI / ML.
• SW configuration framework (e.g., ansible, chef, salt), and devops lifecycle tools (e.g., git, subversion, artifactory) 
• Experience with UNIX operating systems internals and networking 
• Familiarity with various UNIX performance and system tools (e.g., strace, iostat, free, top, tcpdump , grep, awk, sed)
• Experience in troubleshooting large scale distributed systems across large networks.
• Integrating products using APIs
• Solid understanding of Risk culture
• Solid understanding of Systems Controls and Risk Reduction techniques 

 Other supplemental valuable expertise/experience

• Machine Learning / AI 
• Understanding of Cloud Technology (Azure mainly, secondarily: Azure, GCP)
• Implementation of Cloud workloads and integrations with the same
• Experience with various enterprise logging systems  
• Experience with distributed systems design.
• Debugging / optimizing code
• Development
• Modern development practices. A strong preference for CI / CD / Devops techniques
• Containerization technologies.

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• “Most Just Companies”, Just Capital and CNBC, 2025

Our Benefits and Rewards:

BNY offers highly competitive compensation, benefits, and wellbeing programs rooted in a strong culture of excellence and our pay-for-performance philosophy. We provide access to flexible global resources and tools for your life’s journey. Focus on your health, foster your personal resilience, and reach your financial goals as a valued member of our team, along with generous paid leaves, including paid volunteer time, that can support you and your family through moments that matter.

BNY is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer - Underrepresented racial and ethnic groups/Females/Individuals with Disabilities/Protected Veterans.

BNY assesses market data to ensure a competitive compensation package for our employees. The base salary for this position is expected to be between $116,000 and $246,000 per year at the commencement of employment. However, base salary if hired will be determined on an individualized basis, including as to experience and market location, and is only part of the BNY total compensation package, which, depending on the position, may also include commission earnings, discretionary bonuses, short and long-term incentive packages, and company- sponsored benefit programs.

This position is at-will and the Company reserves the right to modify base (as well as any other discretionary payment or compensation) at any time, including for reasons related to individual performance, change in geographic location, Company or individual department/team performance and market factors.