**About SMBC Group**
SMBC Group is a top-tier global financial group. Headquartered in Tokyo and with a 400-year history, SMBC Group offers a diverse range of financial services, including banking, leasing, securities, credit cards, and consumer finance.
The Group has more than 130 offices and 80,000 employees worldwide in nearly 40 countries. Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Inc. (SMFG) is the holding company of SMBC Group, which is one of the three largest banking groups in Japan.
**Global Presence**
In the Americas, SMBC Group has a presence in the US, Canada, Ireland, Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Peru. Backed by the capital strength of SMBC Group and the value of its relationships in Asia, the Group offers a range of commercial and investment banking services to its corporate, institutional, and municipal clients.
**Role Description**
As a Vulnerability Management Analyst, you will be a key part of a high-performing SOC team, with a desire to continually improve and advance our capabilities to protect SMBC Group.
You will bring your passion for Cybersecurity to a team of dedicated professionals and leverage this passion to ensure our vulnerability remediation activities are effective and efficient and that we keep pace with a rapidly changing threat landscape.
**Key Responsibilities**
* Triage vulnerability alerts from security tools, external intelligence providers, penetration tests, and user-reported findings to assess impact to the organization.
* Configure network, infrastructure, and/or application vulnerability scans and policy checks and conduct manual testing as needed to validate findings.
* Liaise with various business units to conduct vulnerability assessments, consult on risk reduction strategies, and supervise remediation such that vulnerabilities are addressed within required timelines.
* Conduct attack surface risk modeling and articulate high-risk areas to stakeholders in collaboration with Threat Intelligence and Threat Hunting functions.
* Assist in production of periodic vulnerability management reports and statistics for management.
* Tune vulnerability management tools to increase coverage, reduce false positives and false negatives, and improve processes.
* Liaise with Optimization team to set up detections and mitigations i.e., Intrusion Prevention Systems, ensuring we have signatures in place to protect us from relevant threats.
* Support culture of continuous improvement by proactively investigating new risks and opportunities to strengthen Bank's security posture.
**Qualifications and Skills**
1. 2+ years of security, IT, compliance, audit, risk management, consulting, or application development experience.
2. Bachelor of Information Technology, Computer Science, or similar preferable.
3. Strong understanding of MITRE ATT&CK framework.
4. In-depth knowledge of network and web-based attacks.
5. Diligent, proactive, and strong attention to detail.
6. Ability to work with large datasets, multi-task, and effectively prioritize tasks.
7. Strong critical analysis and problem-solving abilities.
8. Strong interpersonal and communication skills (written and verbal).
9. Ability to multi-task and remain productive in a service-driven and results-oriented environment.
10. Demonstrated strong organizational, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
11. Ability to script tasks and automate processes is a plus.
12. Working knowledge of cloud technologies and containerized environments is a plus.