Senior Application Penetration Testing Engineer, VP

at  Information Technology Senior Management Forum

Posted Date
1/30/2025
Description
Citi, the leading global bank, has approximately 200 million customer accounts and does business in more than 160 countries and jurisdictions. Citi provides consumers, corporations, governments, and institutions with a broad range of financial products and services, including consumer banking and credit, corporate and investment banking, securities brokerage, transaction services, and wealth management.
As a bank with a brain and a soul, Citi creates economic value that is systemically responsible and in our clients’ best interests. As a financial institution that touches every region of the world and every sector that shapes your daily life, our Enterprise Operations & Technology teams are charged with a mission that rivals any large tech company. Our technology solutions are the foundations of everything we do from keeping the bank safe, managing global resources, and providing the technical tools our workers need to be successful to designing our digital architecture and ensuring our platforms provide a first-class customer experience. We reimagine client and partner experiences to deliver excellence through secure, reliable, and efficient services.
Our commitment to diversity includes a workforce that represents the clients we serve from all walks of life, backgrounds, and origins. We foster an environment where the best people want to work. We value and demand respect for others, promote individuals based on merit, and ensure opportunities for personal development are widely available to all. Ideal candidates are innovators with well-rounded backgrounds who bring their authentic selves to work and complement our culture of delivering results with pride. If you are a problem solver who seeks passion in your work, come join us. We’ll enable growth and progress together.
About Our Team:
The Chief Information Security Office (CISO) is home to deeply talented colleagues that work to ensure the safety of Citi’s clients’, our revenue, our employees and our proprietary data. We manage information security as one end-to end program – one with a clear mandate and accountability. Our mission is a program that is fully anchored to modern control and architectural frameworks, is fully aligned with the enterprise architecture of the firm and is deeply integrated into the sectors and functions.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Cyber Security or related field with a minimum of 5 years of experience in a penetration testing or application development role OR
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Cyber Security or related field with a minimum of 6 years of experience in a penetration testing or application development role
• Hands on knowledge and experience in a subset of the following tools: BurpSuite Proxy, AppScan, WebInspect, CheckMarx, BlackDuck, Nessus, NMAP
• Must have or be willing to obtain Industry-accredited security certifications such as: GIAC GWAPT, GPEN, OSCP, OSWE, CISSP, GSSP-Java, and/or GSSP-.NET
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RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Act as a subject matter expert in offensive information security performing white-box application reviews, programming, networking, operating systems, and databases.
• Research and identify potential security issues within Citi Applications
• Demonstrate the impact of any identified vulnerability through the development of proof-of-concept code.
• Drive remediation by outlining a defense-in-depth approach to business stakeholders and providing strategic solutions to developers on effective security controls and counter measures.
• Have strong technical writing and presentation skills to report and articulate the vulnerability assessment results to any audience.
• Contribute to the review of internal processes and activities and assist in identifying potential opportunities for improvement and automation.