Job Summary

Vulnerability Remediation Engineer will be part of the Cyber Risk Remediation team under the CIO function and lead the vulnerability management activities for retail bank division. The engineer will play a vital role in triaging, analysis and remediation of vulnerability findings to achieve security goals and risk reduction target for the department. The role requires optimal engagement with various stakeholders including technology delivery leads, information security officers and Collaborate with IT teams to develop and track effective remediation plans for identified vulnerabilities.
•    Triaging - Assessment / analysis of vulnerability scan results to prioritize vulnerabilities based on severity, potential impact, and exploitability while aligning with the remediation priorities with the organization’s security standards. 
•    Remediation Planning - Develop strategies to identify, manage, and mitigate identified threats and vulnerabilities to attain desired risk profile and communicate strategies to key stakeholders. Collaborate with IT teams to develop and implement effective remediation plans for identified vulnerabilities.
•    Advisory / Solution Consulting - Provide technical guidance on patching, configuration changes, and security best practices. Demonstrate in-depth knowledge and understanding of the global threat landscape, cybersecurity trends, emerging technologies, and provide expertise / consultation to application teams for vulnerability remediation.
•    Risk Assessment - Evaluate the potential impact of vulnerabilities on the organization's systems and data. Collaborate with risk management teams to assess the overall risk posture and prioritize mitigation efforts. Assist with the selection of cost-effective security controls to mitigate risk (e.g., protection of information, systems, and processes)

Key Responsibilities

Strategy
•    Remediation Advisory & Planning - Develop strategies to identify, manage, and mitigate identified threats and vulnerabilities to attain desired risk profile and communicate strategies to key stakeholders. Collaborate with IT teams to develop and implement effective remediation plans for identified vulnerabilities.
•    Shift Left - Drive DevSecOps practices by integrating and managing automated secure coding tools within CI/CD pipelines, interpreting results, and collaborating with Development and Operations teams to embed security throughout the development lifecycle.

Processes
•    Prioritization - Assessment / analysis of vulnerability scan results to prioritize vulnerabilities based on severity, potential impact, and exploitability while aligning with the remediation priorities with the organization’s security standards. 
•    Possess a deep and broad understanding of core cybersecurity principles, common attack vectors (e.g., OWASP Top 10), mitigation techniques, cryptography, standard frameworks, and security across network, protocol, system, and application layers.

People & Talent
•    Advisory / Solution Consulting - Provide technical guidance on patching, configuration changes, and security best practices. Demonstrate in-depth knowledge and understanding of the global threat landscape, cybersecurity trends, emerging technologies, and provide expertise / consultation to application teams for vulnerability remediation.

Risk Management
•    Risk Assessment - Evaluate the potential impact of vulnerabilities on the organization's systems and data. Collaborate with risk management teams to assess the overall risk posture and prioritize mitigation efforts. Assist with the selection of cost-effective security controls to mitigate risk (e.g., protection of information, systems, and processes)

Regulatory & Business Conduct

•    Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group’s 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 to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank’s Conduct Principles: [Fair Outcomes for Clients; Effective Financial Markets; Financial Crime Compliance; The Right Environment.] * 
•    Serve as a Director of the Board 
•    Exercise authorities delegated by the Board of Directors and act in accordance with Articles of Association (or equivalent) 

Key stakeholders

•    CIO, CISO, CISRO, ICS, WRB Technology – Domain Technology Leads, Chapter Leads – Production Engineering, Development

Skills and Experience

•    Cyber Security - Vulnerability Analysis
•    Exploitability Analysis / Threat modelling
•    Secure Coding / OWASP / CWE
•    Scripting / Infrastructure as a Code
•    Programming Languages (Java preferred)
•    Security Shift Left / DevSecOps
•    Vulnerability Scoring Systems (CVSS, EPSS etc)
•    Solid understanding of information security policies, standards, and industry best practices

Qualifications

•    Education          Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information security, or a related field    
•    Membership      Preferred Security Research Organization memberships / awareness
•    Certifications     Professional certification such as CEH, CVA, CISSP, CISA, or CISM
•    Languages        English

Competencies

About Standard Chartered

We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 170 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
• Are better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term

What we offer

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 leave, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 months maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along 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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