Senior Penetration Tester (Perimeter) - Assessments & Exercises Vice President

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

As an Assessments & Exercises Vice President in the Cybersecurity and Technology Controls line of business, you will contribute significantly to enhancing our firm's cybersecurity or resiliency posture.

You will use industry-standard assessment methodologies and techniques to proactively identify risks and vulnerabilities in people, processes, and technology.

You will design and deploy risk-promoten tests and simulations, and inform analysis to clearly outline root-causes.

In this role, you will evaluate preventative controls, incident response processes, and detection capabilities, and advise cross-functional teams on security strategy and risk management.

As part of our team, your primary responsibility will be performing hands-on penetration testing of some of our most critical applications, platforms, and the perimeter.

You will work with application developers to not only understand root cause and mitigate vulnerabilities, but also to identify where vulnerabilities can be identified earlier in the SDLC.

We expect you to demonstrate an eagerness to learn, the promote to excel, excellent technical knowledge of security concepts and proven expertise in penetration testing.

Job responsibilities


* Design and execute testing and simulations - such as penetration tests, technical controls assessments, cyber exercises, or resiliency simulations, and contribute to the development and refinement of assessment methodologies, tools, and frameworks to ensure alignment with the firm's strategy and compliance with regulatory requirements


* Evaluate controls for effectiveness and impact on operational risk, as well as opportunities to automate control evaluation


* Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to develop comprehensive assessment reports - including detailed findings, risk assessments, and remediation recommendations - making data-driven decisions that encourage continuous improvement


* Utilize threat intelligence and security research to stay informed about emerging threats, vulnerabilities, industry best practices, and regulations.

Apply this knowledge to enhance the firm's assessment strategy and risk management.

Engage with peers and industry groups that share threat intelligence analytics

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills


* 5+ years of experience in cybersecurity or resiliency, with demonstrated exceptional organizational skills to plan, design, and coordinate the development of offensive security testing, assessments, or simulation exercises


* Significant experience conducting manual penetration tests against a wide variety of applications and technologies including web, mobile and thick clients, internal and external facing infrastructures, cloud, with a focus on reducing the perimeter attack surface


* Knowledge of US financial services sector cybe...