Penetration Testing Lead - Vice President

Role Description

The Penetration Testing Lead will facilitate, manage, and conduct red team and penetration testing efforts. This is a highly technical role in which you should have a solid understanding of information security concepts and proven effectiveness in coordinating large exercises while keeping key stakeholders informed. The Penetration Testing Lead should stay up to date on exploits, new and emerging threats, adversarial techniques and tactics, and continue training on various live-fire training environments. In addition to technical expertise, the Penetration Testing Lead should be able to mentor the team to elevate their skills and challenge them to excel in their field, taking care to ensure they can perform penetration testing and red teaming activities in a stealthy manner without causing any unnecessary stress or damage to the network or application being tested, and rigorously adhere to rules of engagement.

The Penetration Testing Lead should also have a background in coordinating penetration tests with third-party vendors, including drafting requests for proposals, rules of engagement, and detailed reports for presentation to C-level members on a non-technical level as well as technical reports to subject matter experts that will be used to remediate any findings.

Role Objectives

• Triage identified vulnerabilities from security tools and penetration tests to assess impact
• Carry out manual and automated security testing of systems and network infrastructure
• Perform manual testing to validate vulnerabilities found via automated methods
• Perform re-testing to confirm that vulnerabilities are properly remediated
• Support the Penetration Testing Services across the global bank
• Partner with Detection Engineering Team in Purple Team exercises to set up detections and mitigations, i.e., Intrusion Prevention Systems, ensuring we have signatures in place to protect us from relevant threats
• Support a culture of continuous improvement by proactively investigating new risks and opportunities to strengthen the Bank's security posture

Qualifications And Skills

• Bachelor of Information Technology, Computer Science, or similar
• Strong understanding of MITRE ATT&CK framework
• In-depth knowledge of network and web-based attacks
• Diligent, proactive, and strong attention to detail
• Ability to work with large datasets, multi-task, and effectively prioritize tasks
• Strong critical analysis and problem-solving abilities
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills (written and verbal)
• Ability to multi-task and remain productive in a service-driven and results-oriented environment
• Demonstrated strong organizational, analytical, and problem-solving skills

Qualifications - Preferred

• CEH, OSCP, GPEN, GXPN, GWAPT certifications
• 7+ years of security, IT, compliance, audit, risk management, consulting, or application development experience
• CTF experience and writing penetration test reports describing exploit details and remediation plans
• Experience writing scripts and automating processes (PowerShell & Python)
• Experience managing projects from initiation to closure
• Working knowledge of cloud technologies and containerized environments

Additional Requirements

• SMBC’s employees participate in a Hybrid workforce model that provides employees with an opportunity to work from home, as well as, from an SMBC office.
• SMBC requires that employees live within a reasonable commuting distance of their office location.
• Potential candidates will learn more about their specific hybrid work schedule during their interview process.
• Hybrid work may not be permitted for certain roles, including, for example, certain FINRA-registered roles for which in-office attendance for the entire workweek is required.
• SMBC provides reasonable accommodations during candidacy for applicants with disabilities consistent with applicable federal, state, and local law.