Threat Detection and Response - AVP (SOC Manager)

Do you want your voice heard and your actions to count?

Discover your opportunity with Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), one of the world’s leading financial groups. Across the globe, we’re 150,000 colleagues, striving to make a difference for every client, organization, and community we serve. We stand for our values, building long-term relationships, serving society, and fostering shared and sustainable growth for a better world.

With a vision to be the world’s most trusted financial group, it’s part of our culture to put people first, listen to new and diverse ideas and collaborate toward greater innovation, speed and agility. This means investing in talent, technologies, and tools that empower you to own your career.

Join MUFG, where being inspired is expected and making a meaningful impact is rewarded.

• EDUCATION
• •Degree or equivalent work experience equally preferable.
• •Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Cyber Security, Computer Science or related discipline
• CERTIFICATIONS
• •Preferred Certifications: CISSP, ISSMP, SANS, GSEC, GCFA, GNFA, GIAC and/or GCIH
• WORK EXPERIENCE
• •Experience in Information Security or other Information Technology fields
• •Experience working in global, complex, matrix-managed organization
• •Experience in threat and vulnerability management
• •Extensive experience working in global, complex, matrix-managed organization
• •Experience in vulnerability management
• •Experience working in global, complex, matrix-managed organization
• •Experience working directly in Cybersecurity Operations or Information Security
• •Experience working within the Financial Services Industry preferred
• •Experience creating trending, metrics, and management reports
• •Experience across the following technical concentrations:
• •-Network-Based Security Controls (Firewall, IPS, WAF, MDS, Proxy, VPN)
• •-Anomaly Detection and Investigation
• •-Host and Network Forensics
• •-Operating Systems
• •-Web Applications and Traffic
• •Experienced with EnCase, FTK, SIFT, Splunk, Redline, Volatility, Wireshark, tcpdump, and open-source forensic tools
• •Experience responding to cyber events in public cloud environments such as AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, etc.
• •Security experience in all phases of product and service development lifecycle including architecture, design, development, testing, release, and operational maintenance.
• •Experience with cloud computing security, network, operating system, database, application, and mobile device security.
• •Extensive knowledge of vulnerability management and remediation.
• •Experience with information security risk management, including conducting information security audits, reviews, and risk assessments.
• •Experience in two or more security domains including Security Governance and Oversight, Security Risk Management, Network Security, Threat and Vulnerability Management, and Incident Response and Forensics
• FUNCTIONAL SKILLS
• •Knowledge of models/frameworks such as Kill Chain and MITRE ATT&CK
• •Well-developed analytic, qualitative, and quantitative reasoning skills
• •Demonstrated creative problem-solving abilities
• •Security event monitoring, investigation, and overall incident response process
• •Planning and project management
• •Development of information security policies, standards, and procedures
• •Strong time management skills to balance multiple activities and lead junior analysts as needed
• •Understanding of offensive security to include common attack methods
• •Understanding of how to pivot across multiple datasets to correlate artifacts for a single security event
• •A diverse skill base in both product security and information security including organizational structure and administration practices, system development and maintenance procedures, system software and hardware security controls, access controls, computer operations, physical and environmental controls, and backup and recovery procedures.
• •Detailed knowledge and experience in security and regulatory frameworks (ISO 27001, NIST 800 series, FFIEC, SOC2, FedRAMP, STAR, etc.)
• •In-depth knowledge in one or more security domains including Security Governance and Oversight, Security Risk Management, Network Security, Threat and Vulnerability Management, and Incident Response and Forensics
• FOUNDATIONAL SKILLS
• •Communicates effectively
• •Identifies multiple paths to success using analytical and critical thinking as well as decision-making skills
• •Exercises sound judgement, prioritizes effectively, and strives for continuous improvement
• •Effectively collaborates with colleagues
• •Leverages available technology to drive efficiency and results
• •Understands and applies industry trends and best practices
• •Exhibits optimism, resilience, flexibility, and openness to others' ideas
• •Values learning as a lifelong professional objective
• •Engages inclusively and with intent
• •Always acts with integrity
• •Iterative problem-solving
• •Serving as a trusted advisor
• RESPONSIBILITIES
• High Level Responsibilities:
• •Examine computers, related hardware, network traffic, related applications, and operating systems to identify potential threats, anomalous or malicious activities to network resources; conduct strategic assessments on systems and networks; provides tactical analyses and suggestions; generate detailed reports for management; take effective measures to prevent and reduce cyber security incidents.
• •Apply forensic methods and techniques to test hardware/software equipment, operating systems, and memory for electronic data trails detection, and device records tracing; collect and analyze investigative information and data to identify signs or sources of compromise, poor security practices, and unauthorized activities; conduct a range of data forensic investigations of information security incidents
• •Collect, document, assess, and analyze cyber threat information from various data sets; present reports and findings to management; recommend proactive practices to reduce computer crime.
• •Execute first-level incident responses for reported and detected incidents; provide technical assistance to other incident response and security operation teams.
• •Perform security audit on regular basis to ensure compliance with cyber security policies and standards; provide reports and documents regarding network security incidents details and outcome; assist in troubleshooting problems and recommend vulnerability corrections.
• •Reconstruct damaged computer systems and recover damaged or destroyed data; review forensic images; determine solutions for recovery of potentially relevant information.
• Details
• •Perform security investigations, provide forensic services to support the team, assist in the maintenance of forensic and investigative plans and procedures.
• •Collaborate with eDiscovery and Forensic stakeholders, requesters, internal IT resources, and others to ascertain the appropriate solution.
• •Utilize our technology platforms and security controls to conduct large-scale investigations and collect and examine endpoint and network-based evidence and artifacts.
• •Coordinate and drive efforts among multiple business units during response activities and post-mortem.
• •Produce and communicate executive and detailed level reports of work efforts.
• •Identify and understand problems or issues through analysis of multiple data sources to draw effective conclusions and choose the most effective course of action considering the broad business impacts.
• •Thoroughly investigate instances of malicious code to determine attack vector and payload.
• •Develop and enhance cyber incident response processes and procedures leveraging relationships with front line operations teams and available tools and systems.
• •Build scripts, tools, or methodologies to enhance incident investigation processes.
• •Mentor, train, and provide feedback to other analysts to advance their skills and enable new ways of monitoring and detecting threats.
• •Identify Indicators of Compromise (IOCs) and r