Engineering - Dallas - Vice President, Security Engineering

Job Duties

• Vice President, Security Engineering with Goldman Sachs Services LLC in Dallas, Texas.
• Perform Application Security Assessments (Code Review, Penetration Test, Design Review, Threat modelling) and communicate the results to the respective application engineers.
• Review application securing architecture, policies, standards definitions, and carry out documentation of the above.
• Identify vulnerabilities in software applications and software design processes to reduce security risks.
• Actively research new cloud services and identify ways in which the Firm can leverage the Cloud in a secure manner.
• Work with stakeholders to understand the design architecture of software components to analyze security threats and risks.
• Perform security threat analysis to determine the exploit vectors and paths for software components.
• Write and socialize test cases to verify assumptions from threat analysis.
• Document issues along with detailed recommendations for how to address issues.
• Share issues and recommendations with component owners and advise on how they can implement secure remediation.
• Stay up to date with new technologies and assist engineers in assessing risk.
• Enable a world‑class cyber defense program by working closely with other technical, incident management, and forensic personnel to develop a fuller understanding of activity of cyber threat actors.
• Provide security consulting within the Firm as needed.

• Master’s degree (U.S. or foreign equivalent) in Cyber Security, Computer Science, Computer Engineering or a related field and three (3) years of experience in a related Security Engineering role.
• Bachelor’s degree (U.S. or foreign equivalent) in Cyber Security, Computer Science, Computer Engineering or a related field and five (5) years of experience in a related Security Engineering role.
• Prior work experience must include reviewing security controls and how they apply to different designs and systems to identify security gaps.
• Prior work experience must include highlighting and articulating risk to developers or engineers in an understandable language.
• Prior work experience must include performing application vulnerability assessment and penetration testing of web applications.
• Prior work experience must include performing code review of web application programming languages such as Java.
• Prior work experience must include two (2) years of experience performing assessments of technologies leveraging common web stack technologies such as Java.
• Prior work experience must include two (2) years of experience performing architecture review of web applications.

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