It Security Analyst - 5 (Contract)

Story Behind The Need

Clientbank’s Information Security & Control (IS&C)’s Vulnerability Management Services – Application Security is responsible to improve security practices and, through that, to find and preferably prevent security issues within applications.

The Application Security team has global accountability and is highly supportive of the Bank’s business, enabling execution of the Bank’s strategies, operations and services, while ensuring that appropriate application security practices are adhered to. This function provides core competency in proactively detecting application code flaws and/or bugs while working with the appropriate teams in instituting appropriate controls to mitigate risks, specifically as it pertains to web application vulnerabilities and threats. This candidate will be expected to work closely with the application development groups to integrate application security processes and procedures into the software development lifecycle.

Candidate Value Proposition

The successful candidate will have the opportunity to work within Clientbank. We are technology partners who help the business transform how our employees around the world work. You will get to work with and learn from diverse industry leaders, who have hailed from top technology.

Typical Day In Role

The incumbent is responsible for supporting the Senior Manager, Director, VP, SVP and CISO in achieving IS&C Strategic goals through various processes, including:

• Recommend, design, assess, implement, deploy and maintain application security controls required to protect Clientbank and its customers.
• Responsible for timely and accurate reporting of all findings to the development teams, appropriate levels of management and the business risk owner
• Develop and/or enhance reporting to development teams and all levels of management in order to provide proper tracking and measurement of remediation relative to established objectives
• Responsible for developing and/or enhancing the strategies and processes to identify, analyze, and communicate application vulnerabilities as per the CISO Directive and published communication process flows.
• Develop and/or enhance strategies and processes to manage web application security vulnerabilities and threats for both transactional and marketing/informational web sites.
• Develop and/or enhance communication model to manage web application vulnerability remediation with the development and infrastructure support teams in support of risk management practices on behalf of the business owner.
• Responsible for adherence to an established process flow that ensures development support teams, infrastructure support teams, and business risk owners implement control measures that effectively mitigate or eliminate the identified risk.

Candidate Requirements/Must-Have Skills

• 3+ years of experience performing source code reviews manually and experience with any Static Application Security Testing (SAST) tools.
• 3+ years of experience and knowledge of technologies and processes such as Agile Software Delivery, Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery, DevOps, GitOps, Cloud Native Technologies including Docker Containers, Kubernetes, and Deployment Automation & Orchestration.
• 10+ years of technical experience as an IT Security Analyst
• 3+ years of experience with Java application development and more than one of the following languages: Java, JS, Node JS, Swift, Kotlin, React, Angular, Ruby, Python, C#.
• 3+ years of experience with multi-tier Web Applications, web services, and related vulnerabilities and potentials threats. Staying abreast of information provided by recognized organizations such as OWASP (Open Web Application Security Project) and CVE (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures).

Nice-To-Have Skills

• Experience in an Agile development workshop and leveraging tools such as Confluence, JIRA, Bit Bucket, Gradle, Maven and Jenkins.
• Experience on reporting tools such as Cognos, JasperReport and Microsoft Power BI.

Soft Skills

• Excellent written, presentation, and verbal communication skills to be able to work well with technical peers and business stakeholders at different levels within the organization.
• Strong decision making, forward thinking and creative problem-solving skills to anticipate and respond quickly to technological/market influences.
• Ability to work as part of a team, as well as work independently or with minimal direction.

Best Vs. Average Candidate

• Candidate who is an expert in the security world and can hit the ground running with a minimal learning curve.

Education

• University degree or college diploma and a minimum of four (4) years equivalent security industry-related experience required.

Candidate Review & Selection

• 1st round video interview – Panel with Senior Manager and Technical Team (45 minutes)
• 2nd round video interview – Panel with Director (45 minutes)

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