Business Process Red Team Operator

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

As an Assessments & Exercises Vice President in the Cybersecurity and Technology Controls line of business, 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.

JPMC’s Assurance Operations organization is looking to expand its Cybersecurity Red Team with an experienced Business Process Red Team Operator specialized in social engineering and assessments of critical business processes such as payment operations, fraud, and supplier management. The primary focus of this role will be to perform and manage hands-on offensive security activities leveraging social engineering skillsets as part of Red Team engagements against critical JPMC assets. The successful candidate will have a proven track record in cybersecurity assessments, to include social engineering operations like phishing and vishing, and will be able to demonstrate a general knowledge of computer networking fundamentals, modern threats and vulnerabilities, attack methodologies, and penetration testing tools. The Cybersecurity Red Team consists of highly skilled and qualified members who conduct advanced adversary emulation operations to replicate cybersecurity threats targeting the firm. This position is anticipated to require the use of one or more High Risk Role (HRR) systems, which mandates successful completion of enhanced screening, including criminal and credit background checks, before starting employment and annually thereafter.

Job responsibilities

• Perform and manage hands-on offensive security activities leveraging social engineering skillsets as part of Red Team engagements against critical JPMC assets
• Conduct business process assessments to include tabletop or workshop sessions, live testing of business process controls by technical and social engineering attacks, and preparation of deliverables for senior stakeholders
• Design and execute testing and simulations – such as penetration tests, technical controls assessments, cyber exercises, or resiliency simulations, and contribute to the development and refinement of assessment methodologies, tools, and frameworks to ensure alignment with the firm’s strategy and compliance with regulatory 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, 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. Apply this knowledge to enhance the firm's assessment strategy and risk management. Engage with peers and industry groups that share threat intelligence analytics

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills