Assessments & Exercises Senior Associate

Next Frontier Capital; Greater London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Aumni in London is seeking a Delivery Lead for Cybersecurity Assessments to oversee service delivery of security engagements, including governance, reporting and stakeholder communication. This role emphasizes delivery processes over hands-on technical testing.

You will coordinate cross‑functional teams across the US, UK and APAC, ensure SLAs are met, drive improvements and present management information to senior stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Good understanding of penetration testing, red teaming, purple teaming and other security assessment activities is preferred but not essential.
• Proven experience with logistical demand of clients and stakeholders.
• Proven experience in project management.
• Strong organizational skills with meticulous attention to detail.
• Exceptional problem-solving abilities to anticipate and resolve challenges.
• Communicate with a diverse audience, including verbal, written and where necessary using presentation techniques in English.
• Proven commercial experience with Microsoft Excel, Visio and PowerPoint.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate and manage multiple security assessment projects across global teams while maintaining a high degree of communication between multiple stakeholders.
• Ensure adherence to standard operating procedures.
• Anticipate and resolve roadblocks that impact SLA's within the security assessment lifecycle.
• Assist with providing ad-hoc reports and understanding of how to present management information to senior stakeholders.
• Analysis of processes to identify automation, streamlining and improvement opportunities to accomplish common goals.
• Drive process improvement, automation, and operational excellence.
• Build partnerships with security assessment teams based in the US, UK and Singapore.

Skills

Penetration testing

Red teaming

Purple teaming

Project management

Stakeholder management

English communication

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Visio

PowerPoint

Job description

This role, within our Cybersecurity Assessments Delivery Office, will be responsible for day to day service delivery of security assessments across JPMC. You will be supporting the execution of technical security assessments, including red teaming, purple teaming and penetration testing. Note that this is not a technical execution role, it is a service delivery role supporting execution of technical security assessments.

Candidates should be able to demonstrate interest in general Cybersecurity principles and have experience of program and project delivery processes in large scale organizations. The role involves a high level of stakeholder management and will suit an individual with excellent client facing skills. An applicant from a security consulting firm or a financial services background will have a distinct advantage.

Job Responsibilities

• Coordinate and manage multiple security assessment projects across global teams while maintaining a high degree of communication between multiple stakeholders.
• Ensure adherence to standard operating procedures.
• Anticipate and resolve roadblocks that impact SLA's within the security assessment lifecycle.
• Assist with providing ad-hoc reports and understanding of how to present management information to senior stakeholders.
• Analysis of processes to identify automation, streamlining and improvement opportunities to accomplish common goals.
• Drive process improvement, automation, and operational excellence.
• Build partnerships with security assessment teams based in the US, UK and Singapore.

Required qualifications, capabilities and skills

• Good understanding of penetration testing, red teaming, purple teaming and other security assessment activities is preferred but not essential.
• Proven experience with logistical demand of clients and stakeholders.
• Proven experience in project management.
• Strong organizational skills with meticulous attention to detail.
• Exceptional problem-solving abilities to anticipate and resolve challenges.
• Communicate with a diverse audience, including verbal, written and where necessary using presentation techniques in English.
• Proven commercial experience with Microsoft Excel, Visio and PowerPoint.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities and skills

• Experience in automation tasks, mainly with Python.
• Knowledge on Data Analytics with Qlick Sense.

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