Senior Engineer – Cyber Security

General information

Career area
Technology

Work Location(s)
500 Woodward Avenue, Detroit, MI, 601 S.

Tryon Street, Charlotte, NC

Ref #
21-7597

Posted Date
Thursday, September 30, 2021

Working time
Full-time

Ally and Your Career

Ally Financial only succeeds when its people do
– and that’s more than some cliché people put on job postings.

We live this stuff!

We see our people as, well, people
– with interests, families, friends, dreams, and causes that are all important to them.

Our focus is on the health and safety of our teammates as well as work-life balance and diversity and inclusion.

From generous benefits to a variety of employee resource groups, we strive to build paths that encourage employees to stretch themselves professionally.

We want to help you grow, develop, and learn new things.

You’re constantly evolving, so shouldn’t your opportunities be, too?

The Opportunity

The “Sr Engineer – Cyber Security”
– Cyber Security Technology
– CIAM (Customer Identity and Access Management) works closely with members of the IPRM in a highly collaborative environment using cutting edge IAM technologies to build safe, modern and secure methods to authenticate customers, improve the customer experience and verify critical transactions across products and channels.

This role reports to the Director of Customer Identity and Access Management as a member of a CIAM Agile development squad.

Specifically, this position is responsible for implementing new Authentication and Authorization capabilities to provide our customers with a secure and innovative world class experience as a market leading digital first organization.

The Work Itself

Provides significant contributions in the design, coding/configuration, testing, support and debugging of new software, enhancements to existing software and configurations of COTS packages
Partners with product owners and business contacts to solicit requirements.
Collaborates with other developers and provides technical direction to solve business client questions, problems, and to address enhancement needs.
Ability to lead the development of technically complex new functionality, and work with other team members and business partners to deliver value through working software.
Actively participate in SCRUM ceremonies.
Work with Security teams to tune control systems to best meet the need of the business.
Ability to identify security risks and work with IPRM team to report and lead the remediation efforts.
Provide expert level troubleshooting for supported technologies.
Encourages and supports others to perform their jobs more effectively (e.g., provides advice, tools and/or resources).
Communicates clearly and in a manner that conveys credibility and confidence that he/she will deliver on the customer needs.
Identifies opportunities or problems and acts quickly and decisively to respond to the situation.
Consistently seeks to develop self and skills needed to be prepared for future opportunities and be among the best in his/her field.

The Skills You Bring

3+ years of experience preferred.
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or other relevant field of study preferred, or equivalent experience.
Specific knowledge of IAM platforms such as Transmit Security, Radiant Logic, ForgeRock, Okta, and Broadcom/CA IDM, Directory, SiteMinder, Access Gateway is highly preferred.
Demonstrable experience in IAM is required and Customer IAM experience is beneficial.
Ability to clearly communicate and effectively participate in Agile ceremonies is required.

Experience presenting sprint demos is desirable.
Experience with complex systems integrations, high availability solutions, highly performant systems, and meeting rigorous SLAs.
DevSecOps, Container deployments, Automation, and Cloud deployment pattern experience is a plus.
Knowledge of current security threats, techniques, and landscape, as well as a dedicated and self-driven desire to research current information security landscape.
Java, JavaScript, NodeJS, Python, C++, and/or C# experience.
Hands on Cloud experience with AWS console experience is preferred.
Hands on experience with Apigee, Jenkins, Terraform, Jira, Confluence is desirable.
A pragmatic approach to balancing the ideal solution with delivery commitments.
Modern mature API design and development is valuable.
Experience in leading technical teams on projects and resolving incidents.
Excellent data analysis skills using standard office tools are required.
Excellent communications skills (verbal and written) are required.
A strong attention to detail.
Ability to interact with personnel at all levels across the organization and to comprehend business imperatives.
A strong customer/client focus with ability to manage expectations appropriately and provide superior customer/client experience and build long-term relationships.
CISSP, CISM or CISA preferred.

How We’ll Have Your Back

Ally’s compensation program offers market-competitive base pay and pay-for-performance incentives (bonuses) based on achieving personal and company goals.

But Ally’s total compensation – or total rewards – extends beyond your paycheck and is designed to support and enrich your personal and professional life, including:
Time Away: competitive holiday and flexible paid-time-off, including time off for volunteering and voting.
Planning for the Future: plan for the near and long term with an industry-leading 401K retirement savings plan with matching and company contributions, student loan and 529 educational assistance programs, tuition reimbursement, and other financial well-being programs.
Supporting your Health & Well-being: flexible health and insurance options including dental and vision, pre-tax Health Savings Account with employer contributions and a total well-being program that helps you and your family stay on track physically, socially, emotionally, and financially.
Building a Family: adoption, surrogacy, and fertility support as well as parental and caregiver leave, back-up child and adult/elder day care program and childcare discounts.
Work-Life Integration: other benefits including LifeMatters® Employee Assistance Program, subsidized and discounted Weight Watchers® program and other employee discount programs.
Who We Are:

Ally Financial is a customer-centric, leading digital financial services company with passionate customer service and innovative financial solutions.

We are relentlessly focused on “Doing it Right” and being a trusted financial-services provider to our consumer, commercial, and corporate customers.

For more information, visit www.ally.com.

Ally is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, sex, religion, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy status, marital status, military or veteran status, genetic disposition or any other reason protected by law.

Where permitted by applicable law, must have received or be willing to receive the COVID-19 vaccine by date of hire to be considered, if not currently employed by Ally.

We are committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to applicants with physical or mental disabilities.

For accommodation requests, email us at work@ally.com.

Ally will not discriminate against any qualified individual who is capable of performing the essential functions of the job with or without reasonable accommodation.