Assessments and Exercises Vice President

Contribute to leading-edge security and resilience efforts, advancing protective strategies and propelling continuous improvement.

As an Assessments & Exercises Vice President in in Cybersecurity & Tech Controls, you will contribute significantly to enhancing the firm's cybersecurity or resiliency posture by using industry-standard assessment methodologies and techniques to proactively identify risks and vulnerabilities in people, processes, and technology. Design and deploy risk-driven tests and simulations (or manage a highly-skilled team that does) and inform analysis to clearly outline root-causes. In this role, you will evaluate preventative controls, incident response processes, and detection capabilities, and advise cross-functional teams on security strategy and risk management.

Job Responsibilities

• Design and execute offensive security–led testing and simulation activities—such as Purple Team engagements and adversary emulation used to validate defensive controls and detection/response capabilities—and contribute to the development and refinement of assessment methodologies, tooling, and frameworks to ensure alignment with the firm’s strategy and compliance with regulatory requirements.

• Use enterprise-authorized AI capabilities within the work environment to accelerate synthesis of test evidence and draft executive-ready assessment reporting, validating outputs and handling data according to sensitivity and security requirements.

• Evaluate controls for effectiveness and impact on operational risk, as well as opportunities to automate control evaluation.

• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to develop comprehensive assessment reports—including detailed findings, risk assessments, root cause analysis, and remediation recommendations—making data-driven decisions that encourage continuous improvement.

• Utilize threat intelligence and security research to stay informed about emerging threats, vulnerabilities, industry best practices, and regulations and apply this knowledge to enhance the firm’s assessment strategy and risk management, including engagement with peers and industry groups that share threat intelligence analytics.

• Drive reuse-first adoption of AI-assisted workflows for control evaluation and reporting automation, ensuring results are validated and aligned to security and compliance expectations.

• Perform hands-on offensive security activities as part of Purple Team engagements (e.g., adversary emulation and detection/response validation) in close partnership with relevant stakeholders, including the SOC.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Data Science, or related disciplines (or equivalent experience).

• 5+ years of experience in cybersecurity, with demonstrated exceptional organizational skills to plan, design, and coordinate offensive security assessments and simulation exercises.

• Demonstrated experience using enterprise-authorized AI capabilities within the work environment to support assessment workflows (e.g., analysis support and report drafting) with strong validation habits and awareness of data sensitivity.

• Ability to review and validate AI-assisted findings and remediation recommendations before use, escalating when uncertain and following security and data handling requirements.

• Knowledge of US financial services sector cybersecurity organization practices, operations risk management processes, principles, regulations, threats, risks, and incident response methodologies.

• Ability to identify systemic security issues as they relate to threats, vulnerabilities, or risks, with a focus on recommendations for enhancements or remediation.

• Experience working in information security within in cloud-based environments (Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS)) in both private and public environments (AWS, Azure).

• Demonstrated experience in one or more of the following: Red Team/Purple Team operations, adversary emulation, threat hunting enablement, technical controls assessments, detection engineering validation, incident response readiness activities, and/or network exploitation operations.

• Strong understanding of: Windows/Linux/Unix/macOS operating systems; OS and software vulnerability and exploitation techniques; commercial or open-source offensive security tools for reconnaissance, scanning, exploitation, and post-exploitation; networking fundamentals (all OSI layers, protocols); IaaS/PaaS concepts; DevOps; incident response; threat hunting; and familiarity with interpreting log output from networking devices, operating systems, and infrastructure services.

• Excellent communication, collaboration, and report writing skills, with the ability to influence and engage stakeholders across various functions and levels.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Relevant certifications such as those offered by Offensive Security (e.g., OSCP, OSEP, OSED, OSCE) and/or other comparable offensive security or adversary emulation certifications.

• Knowledge of malware tradecraft (e.g., packing, obfuscation), persistence, and exfiltration techniques.

• Experience working in the financial sector or other large-scale security and IT infrastructures.

• Technical knowledge or experience developing proof-of-concept exploits and in-house scripting using interpreted languages such as Python, Ruby, or Perl, and/or compiled languages such as C, C++, C#, or Java.

• Familiarity with security tools/technologies such as firewalls, IDS/IPS, web proxies, and DLP, and the ability to articulate and visually present complex Purple Team results.