Title:  Pentest Service Advisor

Scotiabank’s Information Security & Control (IS&C)’s Cyber Security Red Team has global accountability and is highly supportive of the Bank’s business, enabling execution of the Bank’s strategies, operations and services, while ensuring that appropriate application and cyber security practices are adhered to. This function provides core competency in proactively detecting application and network vulnerabilities while working with the appropriate teams in instituting appropriate controls to mitigate risks, specifically as it pertains to system vulnerabilities and threats.

The role:

In this role, you will be expected to work closely with the application development groups from every line of business in the Bank to integrate application and network security processes and procedures into the software development lifecycle. You will work closely with vendors and the Bank’s internal penetration testing team to ensure regulatory driven penetration testing programs are executed.

Is this role right for you? In this role you will:

• Collaborate with IT management teams, security advisory and IT Risk teams, on a Global Scale to ensure effective execution of mandated assessments
• Develop/enhance and/or execute effective communication models to assist with the management of reported vulnerabilities and their remediation with the development and infrastructure in support of risk management practices
• Develop/enhance and/or execute strategies and processes to track, manage and communicate reported results of testing
• Be responsible for adherence to established process flows that ensure development teams, infrastructure teams and business owners implement control measure that effectively mitigate or eliminate risk.
• Be responsible for timely and accurate reporting of all findings to the appropriate teams, different levels of management and business risk owners
• Be responsible for scheduling, oversight of execution, and forwarding deliverables to stakeholders and other Security teams within IS&C.

Do you have the skills that will enable you to succeed in this role? We'd love to work with you if you have:

• 3+ years as a Project Manager or Technical Coordinator or security related experience
• A natural curiosity for how things work, exploring unknowns, and unafraid to test perceived limitations.
• Strong customer service skills
• Possess strong communication (verbal/written/presentation) skills in English. The same in Spanish is a considered an asset.
• Well-rounded interpersonal skills, with the ability to build relationships cross-functionally, based on Scotiabank’s values of respect, integrity, passion and accountability.
• Experience adhering to financial budgets, financial reporting, reviewing invoicing and statements of work
• The ability to read and comprehend regulatory-type documentation
• A dynamic personality, able to work with a wide scope of work that is ever changing.