Cyber-Security/Information Security | Senior Threat Modeler

Role: Senior Threat Modeler

Location: London / Belfast
Start Date: ASAP
End Date: 6 Months
Daily Rate: Competitive Day Rate, Inside IR35
Payroll provider – Rockford Payroll
Info for Contingent Workers – Rockford Pay

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.
• Train newer members of the team.
• Supervise junior members of the team.
• Run parts of our threat model service.
• 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 a professional level cloud certification (defined further below) from either AWS, GCP or Azure.
• You’re expected to have a vendors cloud security certification (defined further below) from either AWS, GCP or Azure.
• You’re expected to have a professional cyber-security certification (defined further below).

Technical Skills

• You’re expected to have five or more years of experience in several of the following:
  • IT experience minimum of 10 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) – must.
  • 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.
  • Understanding of docker/K8S/serverless/helm – must.
  • Support or perform pen testing.
  • Snowflake/MongoDB/Terraform Cloud/GitHub/Databricks.
  • Design and review technical architectures.
  • 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 client’s security standards and Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) processes (must).