Security Consultant

Main Responsibilities and Key Deliverables: - Provide security consultancy on specialist strategic topics - Work closely with vendors, platform teams and subject matter experts (SMEs) where necessary in order to drive out architectural decisions, design statements and exceptions. - Take the lead on solving security challenges and issues where the problem scenario is not covered by a pattern, standard or existing strategy. - Surface strategic and architectural decisions through the approved governance or oversight channels as defined by the banks operating model. - Where embedded within a project, act as a primary resource ensuring commitment to attend all appropriate calls and meetings in order to provide the level of support required. - Acts as a buffer between the speed of continuous integration and the need for strategic security and managing overall business and security risks - Act as the first point of contact for IT Security questions and queries - Participate in IT Security engagement activities (e.g. risk assessment and threat modelling sessions, security risk review etc.); - Identify security risks as they arise, communicate it as appropriate and ensure relevant stakeholders are involved for the adequate mitigation or remediation - Provide guidance to the teams and stakeholders of IT Security by referring to policies and standards - Promote the adoption of security tooling in line with the development lifecycle and HSBC approved toolset; - Identify and make recommendations geared at increasing teams velocity through self-sufficiency in terms of IT Security - Educate teams in terms of their security capabilities - Identify, engage and establish relationships with key stakeholders - Assess Dev team IT Security profile, controls, and level of engagement - Provide advice and guidance to relevant stakeholders about the IT Security engagement model improvement Technical Skills: - Security Architecture or Security Solution Architecture experience - Security solution design or security design document review and preparation - Experience of cloud platforms (Azure, AWS and GCP) and experience in performing security review against applications deployed in cloud. - Experience in container security, microservice security, API security and Kubernetes or other container orchestration products - Have experience in application risk assessment, threat modelling - Proficient in application security review of Web, Mobile and API. - Ability to assess and identify any possible vulnerabilities/risks in technology being developed prior to implementation - Experienced in web application, API Security, and mobile application security testing in conformance to various industry standards like OWASP top 10, SANS top 25 etc. - Good to have knowledge on programming and scripting skills in languages like Java, JavaScript, Angular, Spring Boot etc. - Good to have experience on app/API IAM/authentication/authorization products - Strong understanding of the security threat landscape, awareness of major historical and recent vulnerabilities, awareness of security industry responses to significant threats - Strong understanding of Zero Trust security including detailed knowledge of concepts, industry whitepapers and practical implementations - Strong understanding of security industry trends, hot topics, commercial and vendor capability awareness - Educated to degree level desirable but not essential Skills: threat modeling , Web Application Security, Mobile Application Security, Api, Security Design Experience: 5.00-10.00 Years