Job Description

This role is also open to Atlanta GA | Brooklyn, NY | Chicago IL | Columbus OH | Houston TX | Jersey City NJ | McLean VA | Tampa FL | Washington DC | Wilmington DE.

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

As an Assessments & Exercises Vice President in the Cybersecurity & Technology Controls team, you will contribute significantly to enhancing the firm's 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 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 the team, your primary responsibility will be performing hands-on penetration testing of some of JPMCs most critical applications, platforms, and third-party assets. 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. As a successful candidate within our team, you are expected to demonstrate an eagerness to learn, the promote to excel, excellent technical knowledge of security concepts, and proven expertise in penetration testing.

Job responsibilities

1. 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 firms strategy and compliance with regulatory requirements
2. Evaluate controls for effectiveness and impact on operational risk, as well as opportunities to automate control evaluation
3. 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
4. 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

1. 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
2. Significant experience conducting manual penetration tests against a wide variety of applications and technologies including web, mobile, thick clients, internal and external facing infrastructures, cloud, with a focus on third-party testing
3. Knowledge of US financial services sector cybersecurity or resiliency organization practices, operations risk management processes, principles, regulations, threats, risks, and incident response methodologies
4. Ability to identify systemic security or resiliency issues as they relate to threats, vulnerabilities, or risks, with a focus on recommendations for enhancements or remediation, and proficiency in multiple security assessment methodologies (e.g., Open Worldwide Application Security Project (OWASP) Top Ten, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Cybersecurity Framework), offensive testing tools, or resiliency testing equivalents
5. 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

1. Proficiency in security concepts for both Windows and Unix-like Operating Systems
2. Experience in source code review and/or building software with multiple programming languages (i.e. Python, Java, Rust, etc.)
3. Experience in reverse engineering standalone, thick client and mobile applications
4. Certifications like OSWE, CREST (CRT, CCT), OSCP, OSCE, GXPN, GWAPT, GPEN, BSCP

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