Threat Modeler

Role: Threat Modeler

Location: London / Belfast

Start Date: ASAP

End Date: 6 Months

Daily Rate: Competitive Day Rate, Inside IR35

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Responsibilities

• 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.
• Work with little supervision to complete work
• Develop, test, and deploy secure and efficient Python-based applications, adhering to established SDLC processes and quality standards.

Certification Requirements

• You’re expected to have an associate level cloud certification (defined further below) from either AWS, GCP or Azure.
• You’re expected to have an associate or professional cyber-security (defined further below) certification.

Technical skills

You’re expected to have two to five years of experience in several of the following:

• IT experience minimum of 6 years with minimum of 4 years Cyber-Security/Information Security – must
• Threat Modeling (STRIDE, PASTA, Attack trees, tooling, Att&ck) – must.
• Identifying vulnerabilities using CWE or OWASP.
• Experience working in a cyber-security role - must.
• Security practices pertaining to authentication, authorization, logging/monitoring, encryption, infrastructure security, network/segmentation – must.
• Operating systems and their hardening.
• Development concepts (such as: CICD, Pipelines, SDLC).
• Scripting languages, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation) – must.
• Cloud Development Kit (CDK), GitOps.
• Operating in a DevOps / agile team structure.
• Jira or other ticketing systems – must.
• Understanding of docker/K8S/serverless/helm.
• Support or perform pen testing.
• Snowflake/MongoDB/Terraform Cloud/GitHub/Databricks.
• Design and review technical architectures – must.
• Strong proficiency in Programming Languages, with a preference for Python (asynchronous programming), and FastAPI (must).
• Unit Testing: Developing and executing unit tests using frameworks like Pytest to ensure code quality (must).
• Ensure all software platforms adhere to the clients security standards and Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) processes (must).

Essential skills

• 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.
• Problem solver.
• Communication and collaboration skills.
• Builder of relationships across cross-functional teams.

Education

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

Associate level cloud certification

• AWS Certified Developer, AWS Certified Solutions Architect, AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
• CompTIA Cloud+
• Google Associate Cloud Engineer or other professional GCP certification
• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Certified Architect Associate, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Certified Cloud Operations Associate
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Developer Associate

Associate or professional cyber-security

• ISACA Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA)
• GIAC Security Essentials (GSEC)
• ISC2 Systems Security Certified Practitioner (SSCP)
• CompTIA CySA+
• Microsoft Certified: Security Operations Analyst Associate; Information Protection Administrator Associate