Senior Vulnerability Spec

Citizens Bank • Woodbridge Township, NJ

90d • $150,000 - $175,000

About The Position

We are currently seeking a highly motivated, detail oriented, and customer focused individual to play a key role on the team. In this role on the Cyber Defense - Infrastructure Vulnerability Management Team, you will be responsible for performing vulnerability and compliance scanning and analysis to aid Citizens in assessing the enterprise vulnerability posture and reducing the attack surface. Working closely with business lines and infrastructure teams, you will directly contribute to the effort to identify, track, and remediate the open vulnerabilities (technical Vulnerabilities or build compliance deviations) on systems that store, process, or display Citizen's data. In this role, it is critical that you must understand technology operations as well as security operations, with a keen understanding of the concept of mitigating and compensating controls is required.

Requirements

• 5 years of progressive security industry experience
• 1-2 years of experience with QualysGuard Vulnerability Scanner including its API, Vulnerability Management (VM), Policy Compliance (PC), CloudView, AssetView, Cloud Agent, and other modules highly preferred
• 1-2 years of experience with other vulnerability management solutions such as Tenable, Rapid7, and others is acceptable with the understanding that you will be expected to be a domain expert with this Qualys in 3-6 months
• Recall level of understanding of CVSS, CVE, CWE, CPE, CCE, CWE, OVAL, SCAP and other standards
• Experience developing applications, automation scripts, or other solutions in at least one modern language (Python, Powershell, Java, C/C++, Go, etc)
• Expert understanding of various operating systems (Window, UNIX, Linux, AIX, etc.) with an emphasis on vulnerability assessment and hardening. Subject matter expertise in at least one of the operating systems is required
• Practical knowledge of security hardening, configuration management, change control/problem management, exception management and security baselines (e.g. CIS Baselines, NIST, vendor security technical implementation guides, etc.)
• Practical knowledge of Cloud (AWS, Azure, etc.) and how to secure them
• Associate level knowledge of networking fundamentals
• Experience fostering and maintaining relationships with key stakeholders and business partners
• Self-motivation with the ability to work under minimal supervision is a must
• Ability to demonstrate manual testing experience including all of OWASP Top 10
• Demonstrated experience with common penetration testing and vulnerability assessment tools such as nmap, Wireshark, Nessus, NeXpose, Kali, Metasploit, AppScan, WebInspect, Burp Suite Professional, Acunetix, Arachni, w3af, NTOSpider, ZAP Proxy, IronWASP is a plus

Nice To Haves

• One or more relevant security certifications (GEVA, GCIH, GCIA, OSCP, GPEN, GXPN, GWAPT, GWEB, GCIA, GSNA, LPT, Security +, CISSP, CISM, CISA)
• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent combination of experience

Responsibilities

• Actively looking for ways to improve the processes around the program to provide a best of breed, world class service
• Communicating security issues to a wide variety of internal and external customers including technical teams, executives, risk groups, vendors and regulators
• Maintaining a deep understanding of current threat, vulnerabilities, attacks, countermeasures and how to respond effectively to them while providing training to the rest of the team on these items
• Developing meaningful metrics to reflect the true posture of the environment allowing the organization to make educated decisions based on risk
• Improving the capabilities and maturity of the Citizens Vulnerability Management Program by identifying appropriate technologies, policies, communication channels, organizational structures and relationships with third parties

Benefits

• Competitive pay
• Comprehensive medical, dental and vision coverage
• Retirement benefits
• Maternity/paternity leave
• Flexible work arrangements
• Education reimbursement
• Wellness programs
• Paid time off policy exceeds the mandatory, paid sick or paid time-away policy of very local and state jurisdiction in the United States

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Industry: Credit Intermediation and Related Activities
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree