Job Description

The Role Responsibilities

Job Role

Overall 8 years of experience in information technology out of which 4 years of experience in Cyber security and 2 years of experience in threat modeling. Provide technical leadership and advise team members on attack and penetration testing.

Ability to work both independently as well as lead a team. Familiarity with one or more threat modeling methodologies (e.g., MITRE, STRIDE, PASTA, LINDDUN, CVSS, Attack Trees, Security Cards, hTMM, Quantitative Threat Modeling Method, VAST Modeling, OCTAVE.

Strategy

Towards delivering and living out our TTO Strategy 25 by

• Establish Strong Digital Foundations
• Accelerate Transformation
• Drive Process Excellence

Business

• Contribute to the strategic goals of the organisation through the application of technology.
• Solve problems through the application of technical knowledge and skill, determining when and how technology can solve business problems.
• Scope and create technical solutions that contribute to the business\xe2\x80\x99s strategic goals.

Processes

• Identify new areas of focus and activity for both internal and external technology communities.
• Develop and roll out best practice in Technology domain of expertise or their specialism.
• Rescue, remediate or provide expertise on initiatives with significant technology challenge.

People and Talent

• Be a role model and build the appropriate culture and values.
• Set appropriate tone and expectations from their team and work in collaboration with risk and control partners.
• Ensure the provision of ongoing training and development of people and ensure that holders of all critical functions are suitably skilled and qualified for their roles ensuring that they have effective supervision in place to mitigate any risks.
• Employ, engage and retain high quality people.
• Work with internal business teams, cross-functional engineering teams, and external vendors.
• Effective conflict resolver and strong leadership skills to deliver on commitments and knowing when to say "No" to stakeholder.

Risk Management

• Make recommendations (and / or implement) to relevant stakeholders on possible risk management responses to identified risks and / or findings of concerns from investigations.
• Manage escalations on PEP / Sensitive issues requiring additional assessment and / or controls.

Governance

• Take personal responsibility for understanding the risk and compliance requirements of the role.
• Understand and comply with, in letter and spirit, all applicable laws, and regulations, including those governing anti-money laundering, terrorist financing, and sanctions; the Group\xe2\x80\x99s policies and procedures; and the Group Code of Conduct.
• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk and compliance matters.
• Embed the Group\xe2\x80\x99s values and code of conduct to ensure that adherence with the highest standards of ethics, and compliance with relevant policies, processes, and regulations among employee\xe2\x80\x99s form part of the culture.

Regulatory and Business Conduct

• Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group\xe2\x80\x99s Values and Code of Conduct.
• Take personal responsibility for embedding the highest standards of ethics, including regulatory and business conduct, across Standard Chartered Bank. This includes understanding and ensuring compliance with, in letter and spirit, all applicable laws, regulations, guidelines and the Group Code of Conduct.
• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.
• Lead the team to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank\xe2\x80\x99s Conduct Principles: [Fair Outcomes for Clients; Effective Financial Markets; Financial Crime Compliance; The Right Environment].
• Exercise authorities delegated by the Board of Directors and act in accordance with Articles of Association.

Our Ideal Candidate

• Bachelor\'s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
• Overall 8 years of experience in information technology out of which 4 years of experience in Cyber security and 2 years of experience in threat modeling.
• Provide technical leadership and advise team members on attack and penetration testing.
• Ability to work both independently as well as lead a team.
• Familiarity with one or more threat modeling methodologies (e.g. MITRE, STRIDE, PASTA, LINDDUN, CVSS, Attack Trees, Security Cards, hTMM, Quantitative Threat Modeling Method, VAST Modeling, OCTAVE).
• Hands on experience in Mitre Attack Navigator, Mitre Defend.
• Creating threat modeling using the (Digital Artifact Ontology) Mitre D3FEND.
• Integrate / Leverage ChatGPT to perform threat modeling.
• Experience in working Threat Modeling Automation tools and creating / consuming threat libraries.
• Knowledge and practice of network attack simulation by means of tools such as AttackIQ, Cymulate, Pentera, SafeBreach, Verodin (Mandiant Security Validation)
• Experience in cybersecurity processes with reference to NIST CSF.
• Experience and practice about writing professional documents.
• Critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
• Certified on Microsoft Azure Security Technologies, AWS security speciality and ATT & CK for Cyber Threat Intelligence are preferred.
• CISSP and CCSP certifications will be an added advantage.
• Partner with stakeholders to learn and understand a wide variety of threat model subjects.
• Responsible for building cyber threat models following the defined standards.
• Responsible for writing and maintaining the documentation relating threat models and technical architecture of analyzed systems.
• Responsible to execute cyber-attack simulations applying the defined methodologies and practices.
• Advise and enable informed decisions using clear language, purpose, and fact.
• Deliver learning opportunities relevant to stakeholders.
• Define the scope of depth of analysis for threat modelling.
• Gain a visual understanding of what you are threat modelling.
• Creating a component diagram with a control flow graph (which shows all possible execution paths in a program).
• Model the attack possibilities.
• Identifying assets, security controls, trust zones and threat agents.
• Identify threats and create a traceability matrix of missing or weak security controls.
• An adversarial mindset - candidate must be able to put themself in the mind of the attacker.
• Experience in penetration testing and red team methodologies.
• Experience using common penetration testing tools using Burpsuite, Metasploit, etc.
• Identify and exploit security vulnerabilities in a wide array systems in a variety of situations.

Certification

• Cloud or Container Certifications like CKA, AWS SA, AZ-500, TF Associate.
• Certified on Microsoft Azure Security Technologies, AWS security speciality and ATT & CK for Cyber Threat Intelligence are preferred.
• Certification on Operationalizing MITRE ATT & CK, Foundations of Breach and Attack Simulation, Application of ATT & CK Navigator, Extending ATT & CK with ATT & CK Workbench.
• Cyber Security Certification like CISSP, CCSP, CCSK

Languages

• Experience with Python, Go, Java, or Ruby.
• Experience in Infrastructure as Code (IAC) tools like Terraform, Cloud formation.
• Experience working with DevOps tools, for Ex. Bitbucket, Jenkins and Artifactory.
• Experience with Public Cloud platforms, for Ex. AWS, Azure or GCP.
• Experience in API layer like security, custom analytics, throttling, caching, logging, monetization, request and response modifications, etc.
• Experience with Container platforms, for Ex. Kubernetes, OpenShift, EKS, AKS or GKE.
• Experience in automation using Cloud services, like AWS Lambda or Step Function.
• Experience creating Splunk use cases (SIEM) and Splunk query language.

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• Threat Modeling (Manual / Automation)
• Threat Modeling Framework STRIDE, MITRE
• Azure / AWS Public Cloud
• Python, Go Lang, Java / .NET
• Infrastructure as Code
• PowerShell, Azure CLI
• Penetration Testing

\xc2\xadAbout Standard Chartered

We\'re an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 160 years, we\'ve worked to make a positive difference for our clients, communities, and each other. We question the status quo, love a challenge and enjoy finding new opportunities to grow and do better than before. If you\'re looking for a career with purpose and you want to work for a bank making a difference, we want to hear from you. You can count on us to celebrate your unique talents. And we can\'t wait to see the talents you can bring us.

Our purpose, to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity, together with our brand promise, to be here for good are achieved by how we each live our valued behaviours. When you work with us, you\'ll see how we value difference and advocate inclusion. Together we:

• Do the right thing and are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity, while putting the client at the heart of what we do
• Never settle, continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well
• Be better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term

In line with our Fair Pay Charter, we offer a competitive salary and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial and social wellbeing.

• Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance, with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations
• Time-off including annual, parental / maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 weeks maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with with minimum global standards for annual and public holiday, which is combined to 30 days minimum
• Flexible working options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns
• Proactive wellbeing support through Unmind, a market-leading digital wellbeing platform, development courses for resilience and other human skills, global Employee Assistance Programme, sick leave, mental health first-aiders and all sorts of self-help toolkits
• A continuous learning culture to support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual and digital learning
• Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation, one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions and geographies - everyone feels respected and can realise their full potential.

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