Threat Modeler

Job Title: Threat Modeler

Location: Irving, TX/Jersey City, NJ/Tampa, FL/Onsite

Position Type: Full time/Permanent role

Job Description

Must Have Technical/Functional Skills:

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 Cybersecurity/Information Security – must have.

• Threat Modeling (STRIDE, PASTA, Attack trees, tooling, Att&ck) – must have demonstrated experience.

• Experience working in a cybersecurity role – must have.

• Security practices pertaining to authentication, authorization, logging/monitoring, encryption, infrastructure security, network/segmentation – must have.

• Scripting languages, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation) – must have.

• Jira or other ticketing systems – must have.

• Design and review technical architectures – must have.

• Strong proficiency in Programming Languages, with a preference for Python (asynchronous programming), and FastAPI (must have).

• Unit Testing: Developing and executing unit tests using frameworks like Pytest to ensure code quality (must have).

• Ensure all software platforms adhere to Citi's security standards and Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) processes (must have).

• Identifying vulnerabilities using CWE or OWASP.

• Operating systems and their hardening.

• Development concepts (such as: CICD, Pipelines, SDLC).

• Cloud Development Kit (CDK), GitOps.

• Operating in a DevOps / agile team structure.

• Understanding of docker/K8S/serverless/helm.

• Support or perform pen testing.

• Snowflake/MongoDB/Terraform Cloud/GitHub/Databricks.

• Karat Assessment (Python focus) is required for consideration.

Roles & 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.