Assessments and Exercises Vice President

Description

Contribute to leading-edge security and resilience efforts advancing protective strategies and propelling continuous improvement.

As an Assessments & Exercises Vice President in in Cybersecurity & Tech Controls you will contribute significantly to enhancing the firms cybersecurity or resiliency posture by using industry-standard assessment methodologies and techniques to proactively identify risks and vulnerabilities in people processes and technology. Design and deploy risk-driven tests and simulations (or manage a highly-skilled team that does) and inform analysis to clearly outline this role you will evaluate preventative controls incident response processes and detection capabilities and advise cross-functional teams on security strategy and risk management.

Job Responsibilities

• Design and execute offensive securityled testing and simulation activitiessuch asPurple Team engagementsand adversary emulation used to validate defensive controls and detection/response capabilitiesand contribute to the development and refinement of assessment methodologies tooling and frameworks to ensure alignment with the firms strategy and compliance with regulatory requirements.
• Use enterprise-authorized AI capabilitieswithin the work environment to accelerate synthesis of test evidence and draft executive-ready assessment reporting validating outputs and handling data according to sensitivity and security requirements.
• Evaluate controlsfor effectiveness and impact on operational risk as well as opportunities to automate control evaluation.
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teamsto develop comprehensive assessment reportsincluding detailed findings risk assessments root cause analysis and remediation recommendationsmaking data-driven decisions that encourage continuous improvement.
• Utilize threat intelligence and security researchto stay informed about emerging threats vulnerabilities industry best practices and regulations and apply this knowledge to enhance the firms assessment strategy and risk management including engagement with peers and industry groups that share threat intelligence analytics.
• Drive reuse-first adoption of AI-assisted workflowsfor control evaluation and reporting automation ensuring results are validated and aligned to security and compliance expectations.
• Perform hands-on offensive security activitiesas part of Purple Team engagements (e.g. adversary emulation and detection/response validation) in close partnership with relevant stakeholders including the SOC.

Required qualifications capabilities and skills

• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science Cybersecurity Data Science or related disciplines (or equivalent experience).
• 5 years of experience in cybersecurity with demonstrated exceptional organizational skills to plan design and coordinate offensive security assessments and simulation exercises.
• Demonstrated experience using enterprise-authorized AI capabilities within the work environment to support assessment workflows (e.g. analysis support and report drafting) with strong validation habits and awareness of data sensitivity.
• Ability to review and validate AI-assisted findings and remediation recommendations before use escalating when uncertain and following security and data handling requirements.
• Knowledge of US financial services sector cybersecurity organization practices operations risk management processes principles regulations threats risks and incident response methodologies.
• Ability to identify systemic security issues as they relate to threats vulnerabilities or risks with a focus on recommendations for enhancements or remediation.
• Experience working in information security within incloud-based environments(Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS)) in both private and public environments (AWS Azure).
• Demonstrated experience in one or more of the following:Red Team/Purple Team operations adversary emulation threat hunting enablement technical controls assessments detection engineering validation incident response readiness activities and/or network exploitation operations.
• Strong understanding of: Windows/Linux/Unix/macOS operating systems; OS and software vulnerability and exploitation techniques; commercial or open-source offensive security tools for reconnaissance scanning exploitation and post-exploitation; networking fundamentals (all OSI layers protocols); IaaS/PaaS concepts; DevOps; incident response; threat hunting; and familiarity with interpreting log output from networking devices operating systems and infrastructure services.
• Excellent communication collaboration and report writing skills with the ability to influence and engage stakeholders across various functions and levels.

Preferred qualifications capabilities and skills

• Relevant certifications such as those offered byOffensive Security(e.g. OSCP OSEP OSED OSCE) and/or other comparable offensive security or adversary emulation certifications.
• Knowledge of malware tradecraft (e.g. packing obfuscation) persistence and exfiltration techniques.
• Experience working in the financial sector or other large-scale security and IT infrastructures.
• Technical knowledge or experience developing proof-of-concept exploits and in-house scripting using interpreted languages such as Python Ruby or Perl and/or compiled languages such as C C C# or Java.
• Familiarity with security tools/technologies such as firewalls IDS/IPS web proxies and DLP and the ability to articulate and visually present complex Purple Team results.

Required Experience:

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Employment Type : Full-Time
Experience: years
Vacancy: 1