Cybersecurity Threat Modeler

K&K Global Talent Solutions Inc. is an international recruiting agency that has been providing technical resources in the Canada and the USA region since 1993.

This position is with one of our clients in USA, who is actively hiring candidates to expand their teams.

Role:- Threat Modeler   

Location:- Irving, TX (onsite)   

Fulltime

Job Description

Must Have Technical/Functional Skills

•             IT experience minimum of 6 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).

•             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 – must.

•             Understanding of docker/K8S/serverless/helm.

•             Support or perform pen testing.

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

•             Design and review technical architectures – must.

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

Bachelor's degree in computer related field or equivalent work experience.

Associate level cloud certification 

•AWS Certified Developer, AWS Certified Solutions Architect, AWS Certified SysOps Administrator

•CompTIA Cloud

•Google Associate Cloud Engineer or other professional Google Cloud Platform certification

•Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Certified Architect Associate, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Certified Cloud Operations Associate

•Microsoft Certified: Azure Developer Associate

Associate or professional cyber-security

•ISACA Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA)

•GIAC Security Essentials (GSEC)

•ISC2 Systems Security Certified Practitioner (SSCP)

•CompTIA CySA

•Microsoft Certified: Security Operations Analyst Associate; Information Protection Administrator A ssociate