Overview

Cambridge Investment Research Inc., one of the nation’s top independent financial solutions firm, is actively looking for a person who has a passion Security to join the Information Security Department for a full time IT Security Engineer II.

At Cambridge, our purpose is to make a difference in the lives of our financial professionals, their investing clients, and our associates. Our values of integrity, commitment, flexibility, and kindness continue to guide us in the decisions we make together every day. For over 40 years we’ve delivered innovative financial solutions while offering exciting career opportunities with ongoing professional development.

A national leader as a financial solutions firm, Cambridge’s commitment to long-term professional development and work-life balance makes this a one-of-a-kind opportunity. Cambridge is a multiple-time Top Workplace Iowa and Top Workplace USA winner as voted on by our associates2. We are recognized among the leading firms in the financial advice industry as we serve over 3,800 independent financial professionals³ and hundreds of thousands of their investing clients across the country.

1 Cambridge and its predecessor broker-dealer

2The Top Workplace in Iowa recognition is determined by associate feedback through an anonymous survey conducted by Energage, an independent research company. More information on the methodology to qualify can be found at https://topworkplaces.com/resources/national-top-workplaces-methodology/

³As of December 31, 2022

Essential Duties

• Measure, track, report, configure and operate security vulnerability status of IT assets in management systems
• Provide an escalation path for technical support and advice on specialist areas to security team members and other IT functions
• Configure vulnerability and policy compliance management systems.
• Contribute to the creation of security principles, technical reference architectures, standards, baselines, blueprints, security operations including but not limited to approval, change, and authorizations
• Monitor systems for irregular behavior and set up preventive measures
• Investigate, analyze and escalate resolution of security incidents
• Perform end user device threat containment and access control enforcing security policies and restrictions using network security technology
• Perform scheduled maintenance activities and on-call support during non-business hours
• Provide consulting advice to infrastructure and applications teams on specialist areas.
• Performing real-time web application protection against SQL injection attacks, malicious bots, zero-day attacks, data loss and defacement protection and any other web application attacks
• Identify and remediate vulnerability on parameter security devices and extended cloud based permeator in environment (Azure/O365)
• Collaborate and act as liaison with IT and IS teams on projects in specialist areas
• Communicate and train other IT Security team members in vulnerability management.
• Contribute to the creation of security principles, technical reference architectures, standards, baselines, blueprints, security operations including but not limited to approval, change, and authorizations

Education & Experience

• Bachelor's degree from four-year college or university; and three years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Compensation: $85,000-$105,000. This range is a good faith estimate of the compensation to be offered for this position based on the ideal candidate’s qualifications, the Company’s operational needs, and other considerations permitted by law. The actual pay offered to a specific candidate may vary above or below the stated range.

Benefits: Cambridge has competitive benefits and promotes a work/life balance to encourage individual success. 

• Premium benefit package including medical, vision, dental, life and long-term disability insurance
• Vacation/sick time
• 401K retirement plan with company matching program
• Profit Sharing Plan
• Eleven paid holidays

You can find more details about our comprehensive benefits package here.