Tech Cyber Security Specialist

Job Reference #
326198BR

Job Type
Full Time

Your role
Are you passionate about the offensive side of cyber security and research? Are you curious and self-driven to continuously learn, explore, and try harder, as well as share your knowledge and experience to complement the rest of the team? Are you someone who likes to bridge the gap between the technical aspects of emulating attacker TTPs and how this will strengthen the security posture of your business? Are you self-driven, motivated and have experience working on a global security team?

Then we are looking for someone like you to:

• Join a growing in-house red teaming and offensive security capability.
• Execute all phases of offensive security operations participating in both red and purple team testing.
• Develop scripts, tooling, and methodologies to support offensive security capabilities.
• Assist in providing risk appropriate and pragmatic recommendations to correct identified findings, vulnerabilities, and misconfigurations
• Understand and adhere to regulatory, compliance, and legal requirements that impact business operations
  
  

Your team
You will be working in the Cyber Defense Organization within Technology Services, Technology Information Security Office (TS TISO). The TS TISO Vision is to protect, preserve, and prolong the value of the UBS data and digital services, and enhance UBS’s brand and competitiveness in a digitized world. The Cyber Defense organization within TISO leads the management of all cyber threats and cyber risk across the Firm. To “protect the foundations and secure the future,” Cyber Defense serves two mission areas: cyber threat management and defense (understanding, detecting, and responding to threats), and cyber risk management and governance (setting priorities and preventing threats).

Operational Security Testing is a global team with a presence in Switzerland, Poland and the USA. The team works with stakeholders across TS TISO and other security control areas to conduct red teaming, purple teaming and other forms of offensive security testing to identify and help remediate gaps across all aspects of the Cyber Security protect, detect and response capabilities of the Firm.

Your expertise

• Ideally 3 years or more of experience in an offensive security role, such as penetration testing, and a desire to move into the world of red and purple teaming.
• Experience and proficiency in the day-to-day operations of a Red Team with knowledge of offensive security tools, such as Metasploit, Nessus, Burp, Kali Linux / CommandoVM or C2 frameworks (e.g. Cobalt Strike, Brute Ratel, Sliver, Nighthawk)
• Experience in setting up infrastructure for Red Teaming operations and techniques utilized in reconnaissance, exploitation, persistence, lateral movement, command & control, etc.
• Experience in automation using Python, Bash, or other scripting language ideally coupled with the ability to experiment and tweak newly developed open-source tools written in scripting languages.
• Efficient documentation skills to capture the right level of detail at the right level of abstraction while creating process/dataflow/architecture diagrams, or documenting instructions.
• Knowledge and understanding of MITRE ATT&CK framework and TTPs of cyber attacks at a conceptual level as well as knowledge and understanding of OPSEC concepts in attack emulation.
• Experience in a blue team role investigating cyber security incidents in a modern enterprise security environment (including SIEM, EDR, etc) or experience in system administration or engineering experience with Linux and Windows operating systems are pluses,
• Experience with OSINT, phishing / social engineering, vulnerability research, reverse engineering and exploit development is a plus.
• Experience with cloud (Azure, AWS) technologies and experience programming in C, C++, C#, Rust, Nim or in Assembly are pluses.
• Offensive Security certifications (such as OSCP or OSEP), SANS certifications (such as GXPN, GPEN, GWAPT, GREM), or other training in red teaming operations are a plus.
  
  

About Us
UBS is the world’s largest and the only truly global wealth manager. We operate through four business divisions: Global Wealth Management, Personal & Corporate Banking, Asset Management and the Investment Bank. Our global reach and the breadth of our expertise set us apart from our competitors.

We have a presence in all major financial centers in more than 50 countries.

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Join us
At UBS, we know that it's our people, with their diverse skills, experiences and backgrounds, who drive our ongoing success. We’re dedicated to our craft and passionate about putting our people first, with new challenges, a supportive team, opportunities to grow and flexible working options when possible. Our inclusive culture brings out the best in our employees, wherever they are on their career journey. And we use artificial intelligence (AI) to work smarter and more efficiently. We also recognize that great work is never done alone. That’s why collaboration is at the heart of everything we do. Because together, we’re more than ourselves.

We’re committed to disability inclusion and if you need reasonable accommodation/adjustments throughout our recruitment process, you can always contact us.

Disclaimer / Policy Statements
UBS is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We respect and seek to empower each individual and support the diverse cultures, perspectives, skills and experiences within our workforce.