About Us

Wellington Management offers comprehensive investment management capabilities that span nearly all segments of the global capital markets. Our investment solutions, tailored to the unique return and risk objectives of institutional clients in more than 60 countries, draw on a robust body of proprietary research and a collaborative culture that encourages independent thought and healthy debate. As a private partnership, we believe our ownership structure fosters a long-term view that aligns our perspectives with those of our clients.

About the Role

The Position

The Attack Surface Management team is seeking a Lead Security Engineer to be a key member of our team. This engineer will assist in the minimization of potential attack surfaces through vulnerability management, cloud configuration assessments, incorporating threat intelligence from public and private sources, and work internally to build, enhance, and automate policies, standards, and processes. They will be working with various technologies that surface vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, end-of-life software, and other vectors. The ideal candidate is one that has a passion for cyber-security, is naturally curious, and is willing to think outside the box to find creative solutions to challenges.

Detailed Responsibilities

• Perform assessments and communicate to stakeholders on the likelihood of exploitation and potential impact of vulnerabilities, misconfiguration findings, and other potential vectors to determine the appropriate course of action to mitigate potential risk.
• Leverage Cloud Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP) technology to assess findings and contribute guidance and expertise to application custodians on fixing issues.
• Act as a security liaison between Information Security and the Development staff to bring a security mindset to the software development lifecycle. Assess and understand the Wellington CI/CD pipeline to be able to provide recommendations to developers for securing their code.
• Lead urgent vulnerability response, misconfiguration events, or otherwise assist with Cyber Defense as needed.
• Use scripting and AI to automate manual workflows, assist with data assessments, and shorten time gaps from ideas to outputs.
• Develop and mature an internal security hardening and baselines program. This effort develops standards and processes to ensure attack surface risk is reduced, and configuration baselines are met both according to CIS Controls and cyber threats actively targeting the firm.
• Stay up to date with current and relevant cyber security threats as well as any associated countermeasures. Participate in internal meetings to map industry cyber threats to our current attack surface.
• Review of both internal and open-source threat intelligence sources for recently disclosed vulnerabilities at risk of introduction into the Wellington environment.
• Work with our Third-Party Risk team to engage third parties in Wellington’s vendor ecosystem to understand when third and fourth parties may be exposed to critical vulnerabilities.
• Contribute to team documentation for updates to existing processes, new processes, assessment tool infrastructure details and workflows.
• Contribute to firmwide documentation by being an SME contributor to policies and standards.