Assistant Vice President, Cloud Security Threat Modeler

About Citi:

Citi, the leading global bank, has approximately 200 million customer accounts and does business in more than 160 countries and jurisdictions. Citi provides consumers, corporations, governments, and institutions with a broad range of financial products and services, including consumer banking and credit, corporate and investment banking, securities brokerage, transaction services, and wealth management.

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The Role:

Citi is looking for a security focused person with a good understanding of cybersecurity principles to work in the Cloud Threat Modeling team. Using threat modeling you will identify threats and specify mitigating controls which will directly reduce the risk of Citi operating in the public cloud.

Responsibilities

• Perform Threat Modeling using a documented process
• Development of automation tools as required
• Maintain a high standard of work in identifying threats and specifying mitigating controls
• Attending to the lifecycle of identified threats and controls
• Delivery of threat models and supporting tasks within existing timeframes
• Provide feedback, support, and improvements to the existing threat modeling process
• Present work to seniors, the team, and other technical teams

Qualifications

The ideal candidate is expected to have at least 1-2 years’ experience in several of the following technologies/processes:

• Jira or other ticketing systems – must
• Experience working in a cyber-security role – must
• Security practices pertaining to authentication, authorization, logging/monitoring, encryption, infrastructure security, network/segmentation – must
• Experience with Scripting languages or Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation) – must
• Threat Modeling (STRIDE, PASTA, Attack trees, tooling, Att&ck)
• Identifying vulnerabilities using CWE or OWASP
• Operating systems and their hardening
• Development concepts (such as: CICD, Pipelines, SDLC)
• Cloud Development Kit (CDK), GitOps
• Operating in a DevOps / agile team structure
• Understanding of docker/K8S/serverless/helm
• Support or perform pen testing
• Snowflake/MongoDB/Terraform Cloud/GitHub/Databricks
• Design and review technical architectures
• Analytical, diligence and attention to detail
• Eagerness to research using vendor documentation
• Create and maintain quality documentation
• Experience of regulated environment
• Adversary mindset
• Work with diverse set of people and teams
• Constant learner of new technologies and methodologies
• Relationship building across multiple cross-functional teams

Education

• Bachelor's degree in computer related field or equivalent work experience

Certifications

• Ideal candidate is expected to have a foundational or practitioner level cloud certification from either AWS, GCP or Azure
• Ideal candidate is also expected to have a foundational cyber-security certification (defined below):

Foundational or practitioner level cloud certification

• AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
• CompTIA Cloud Essentials+, CompTIA Network+
• Google Cloud Digital Leader
• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Foundations Certified Associate
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals

Foundational cyber-security certification

• ISACA Cybersecurity Fundamentals
• GIAC Information Security Fundamentals (GISF)
• Associate of ISC2
• CompTIA Security+
• Microsoft Certified: Security, Compliance, and Identity Fundamentals

This job description provides a high-level review of the types of work performed. Other job-related duties may be assigned as required.

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In addition to salary, Citi’s offerings may also include, for eligible employees, discretionary and formulaic incentive and retention awards. Citi offers competitive employee benefits, including: medical, dental & vision coverage; 401(k); life, accident, and disability insurance; and wellness programs. Citi also offers paid time off packages, including planned time off (vacation), unplanned time off (sick leave), and paid holidays. For additional information regarding Citi employee benefits, please visit citibenefits.com. Available offerings may vary by jurisdiction, job level, and date of hire.

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