Vice President, Cloud Information Security Exposure Management Specialist, Global Information Security, Australia

Job Description:

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Job Description:

The Senior Cloud Information Security Exposure Management Specialist is responsible for assessing the bank's technologies, applications, and overall security controls in Cloud platforms to identify potential risks and vulnerabilities that may impact Bank of America's information security. Key responsibilities include understanding and complying of the Bank’s Global Information Security policy and relevant cyber security threats to complete security assessments. Job expectations include providing expert technical guidance to support partners and adapting testing methods to emerging cyber security regulations and evolving threats, while developing others on the team.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead and oversee efforts to identify vulnerabilities and misconfigurations in Cloud platforms and workloads. Improve vulnerability identification quality control for the Cloud environment; collaborating across Vulnerability Management to support end-to-end adoption.
• Manage daily operations of Cloud security solutions such as Aqua, Wiz, Qualys, CrowdStrike
• Enhance vulnerability identification process for Hybrid Cloud platforms.
• Drive Cloud Security solutions in alignment with the Bank’s cloud strategy and in accordance with security best practices
• Leads the analysis, implementation, execution, and improvement of proactive security controls to prevent external threat actors from infiltrating company systems or information.
• Conducts research and provides leadership updates regarding advanced threats to compromise security controls and protocols.
• Monitors new threats and complex attempts to compromise security controls while developing a deep expertise in the early lifecycle for security techniques to identify vulnerabilities before they present a risk to the bank.
• Develops strong partnerships by demonstrating operational expertise as a subject matter expert.
• Collaborate to align strategy and roadmaps across Cloud Security, Cyber Security Operational Controls, Security Functions and Capabilities outlining goals/outcomes, milestones, and key initiatives to track progress and provide visibility into issues.
• Provide consulting services as a cloud vulnerability identification subject matter expert.
• Quickly learn and evaluate new technologies for integration into cloud vulnerability management workstreams.
• Providing support for audit and regulatory related inquiries.
• Offer technical guidance to engineering staff to solve complex challenges.

Skills and experience requirements:

• Deep understanding of Microsoft Azure and/or AWS native services, tools, and architecture.
• Deep understanding of cloud security
• Deep working knowledge of cloud threat landscape
• Deep technical experience in infrastructure and security functions
• Experience in DevSecOps and CI/CD pipeline integration through security engineering lifecycles.
• Experience writing requirements documentation.
• Understanding of Threat modeling and frameworks
• Understanding of vulnerability management and scanning tools
• Experience in project management
• Well-developed analytic, qualitative, and quantitative reasoning skills with a demonstrated creative problem-solving ability.
• Ability to work independently with little oversight on complex initiatives.
• Ability to communicate complex concepts to all levels of understanding and technical ability.

Desired Skills:

• CISSP/CCSP/CISM
• Cloud specific Security certifications such as SANS/GIAC
• Vendor specific and relevant certifications – AZ-500, SC-400, AWS Certified Security Specialty, CKA, CKS, RHCE, etc
• Bachelor’s and/or Masters degree in a technical field