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GENERAL ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Following is a summary of the essential functions for this job. Other duties may be performed, both major and minor, which are not mentioned below. Specific activities may change from time to time.
1. Designs and implements cybersecurity solutions that protect critical assets within the job area, contributing to the technical design and implementation approach while following established strategies and patterns.
2. Performs threat modeling, security testing, and penetration testing for the platforms and services in scope, using structured analysis to identify and remediate significant vulnerabilities.
3. Integrates and configures information security technologies in production environments, implementing and refining configuration patterns, automation, and handoff steps for assigned systems or services.
4. Serves as a technical escalation point within the team for challenging security issues, investigating root causes and developing practical, reusable fixes that improve team workflows.
5. Evaluates relevant security threats, tools, and design options, and provides input that helps shape technical plans, priorities, and goals for the job area.
6. Collaborates closely with product and engineering teammates to apply security architecture guidance, secure by design practices, and governance controls in day to day development activities.
7. Develops and maintains security baselines, guardrails, and control implementations for systems and applications in the area of responsibility, helping support regulatory and policy compliance.
8. Leads the technical execution of incident response and basic forensic activities for services in scope, following playbooks, coordinating tasks with teammates, and suggesting improvements to procedures and tooling.
9. Provides guidance, coaching, and informal training to other security engineers and technical teammates, sharing best practices through design and code reviews and knowledge sharing sessions.
10. Leads significant security engineering workstreams or end to end processes within the job area, coordinating contributions from lower level technical professionals and reviewing outputs for quality and alignment.

SPECIFIC DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Partner with SOC, Vendor Risk, Cloud Security, and Application Security teams to improve controls and response playbooks.

2. Translate technical findings into business risk and remediation recommendations.

3. Developing and tuning detection use cases to monitor vendor activity,

4. Perform threat hunting across logs, and telemetry from third-party integrations, and investigating suspicious events tied to supplier accounts, credentials, or network access.

5. Coordinate with third party risk management, incident response, and infrastructure teams to validate threats, contain incidents and recommend remediation steps.

6. Perform threat modeling for SaaS applications, third-party integrations, and vendor-hosted systems.

7. Identify and document abuse cases and attack paths involving external parties and publicly exposed assets.

8. Proactively identify, monitor, and investigate security threats originating from or leverage of third-party connections (e.g. VPN access, SFTP integrations, vendor API's, could-to-cloud integrations).

9. Design and enhance detection logic for anomalous activity across SaaS platforms and internet-facing systems.

10. Monitor external threat intelligence and vendor security events to assess potential organizational impact.

11. Partner with SOC, Vendor Risk, Threat Modeling, and Detection Engineering teams to translate risk scenarios into automation logic.

12. Document integrations, workflows, and playbooks.

13. Monitor performance and reliability of SOAR automations.

Qualifications
Required Qualifications
The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
1. Bachelor's degree or equivalent education, training, and work-related experience.
2. Minimum of 5 years of experience in security engineering or related cybersecurity roles.
3. Advanced knowledge in cybersecurity principles, theories, and concepts.
4. Proven experience in software development lifecycle security practices.
5. Advanced knowledge of threat modeling, security testing, and penetration testing.
6. Experience implementing and managing complex information security technologies.

Preferred Qualifications
1. Advanced cybersecurity certifications (e.g., CISSP, CISM, CEH, GIAC).
2. Experience with security automation, orchestration, and advanced threat detection tools.
3. Familiarity with emerging cybersecurity technologies, industry trends, and strategic risk management.

General Description of Available Benefits for Eligible Employees of Truist Financial Corporation: All regular teammates (not temporary or contingent workers) working 20 hours or more per week are eligible for benefits, though eligibility for specific benefits may be determined by the division of Truist offering the position.Truist offers medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability, accidental death and dismemberment, tax-preferred savings accounts, and a 401k plan to teammates. Teammates also receive no less than 10 days of vacation (prorated based on date of hire and by full-time or part-time status) during their first year of employment, along with 10 sick days (also prorated), and paid holidays. For more details on Truist's generous benefit plans, please visit our Benefits site. Depending on the position and division, this job may also be eligible for Truist's defined benefit pension plan, restricted stock units, and/or a deferred compensation plan. As you advance through the hiring process, you will also learn more about the specific benefits available for any non-temporary position for which you apply, based on full-time or part-time status, position, and division of work.

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