JOB DESCRIPTION
Hybrid work environment: 4 days onsite and 1 day remote
Why GM Financial Cybersecurity?
The GMF Cybersecurity team is tasked with the security engineering, regulatory response, third party risk, and incident response capabilities necessary to secure GM Financial, the captive auto finance subsidiary of General Motors. Reporting directly to the CEO, our Cybersecurity team enjoys unprecedented support to deliver the highest level of security capabilities using cutting edge technologies and automating mundane tasks, allowing our teams to focus on interesting and rewarding security work. As a part of GM, you'll have the opportunity to work on Cybersecurity projects across financial services, automotive, manufacturing, high-tech, and military industries. We are looking for team players who want the freedom to innovate leading edge capabilities to join our growing Cybersecurity team.
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RESPONSIBILITIES
About the Role:
The Senior Principal of Vulnerability Management is highly skilled and detail-oriented in the art of Cybersecurity Vulnerability Management. This role is responsible for identifying, assessing, analyzing, prioritizing, and coordinating security vulnerabilities across our IT infrastructure, business applications, and cloud environments. The ideal candidate must have a strong well rounded technical background in information technology, cybersecurity, vulnerability scanning tools, and risk assessment methodologies. The ideal candidate must be able to assess all vulnerability risks and accurately articulate and document for both technical and non-technical team members the risk level, impacts, and options for remediation and or mitigation of the risk.
In this role, you will:
- Support and influence technical direction for vulnerability and scanning supporting technology
- Architect, build and maintain scalable vulnerability detection rules, alerts, scripts, and triage pipelines
- Monitor and assess the company's cybersecurity risks and implement mitigation strategies to address vulnerabilities
- Conduct continuous discovery and vulnerability assessment of enterprise-wide assets, including vulnerability scans in support of operational matters (non-scheduled)
- Serve as a technical escalation point for vulnerability management and remediation efforts
- Define, build and apply protective mitigations and work with engineering and infrastructure teams to integrate fixes upstream, and to support remediation efforts to close vulnerability exposure to new threats
- Interpret complex data from vulnerability scans to pinpoint potential security risks and weaknesses
- Examine disclosed vulnerabilities, threat scenarios, and mitigating controls to understand the potential impact on the organization
- Provide specific recommendations for addressing and mitigating identified vulnerabilities, prioritizing effort based on factors such as risk, exposure, business impact, threat intelligence, and contextual data
- Perform technical analysis of all scan results and provide a report of analysis as required
Reporting Structure:
- This role reports to: AVP Cybersecurity
QUALIFICATIONS
What makes you a dream candidate?
- Experience with leading cross-functional and/or global initiatives from start to finish
- Advanced knowledge of business acumen and a deep understanding of business implications of decisions
- In-depth understanding of company values, mission, vision and strategic direction
- Comprehensive knowledge of GM Financial's business operations
- Recognized as an expert across the business unit
- Strong experience in threat modeling, secure design, and code review processes
- Strong knowledge of Windows, Linux, Unix, and other operating system's vulnerabilities and ways to stop them
- Demonstrated knowledge in methods to protect against ransomware threats
- Deep experience building and utilizing highly scalable platforms and tools (e.g., Vulnerability scanners, detection pipelines, analytics systems)
- Independent ability to aggregate and report on data, utilizing data visualization techniques
- Robust experience securing hybrid/multi cloud environments (Azure, AWS)
- Proven and verifiable record of building vulnerability tooling and automations integrated into workflows
- Deep understanding of the vulnerability risk landscape and its impact on cyber threats
- Strategic understanding and practical experience with vulnerability remediation priority
- Demonstrated experience performing risk assessments of vulnerabilities and evaluating compensating and mitigating controls in large, complex infrastructures
- Knowledge of secure coding practices and application security testing (SAST, DAST, SCA, IaC, etc).
- Strong experience building and operating Vulnerability Management, Threat Intelligence, or other security programs
- Experience with Python, REST, Node, SWL, and other popular coding languages.
- Strong familiarity with computer networking operations, TCP/IP networking, network fabrics, OSI layers, and corporate networking devices and their operating systems.
- Demonstrated experience with DevSecOps and CI/CD methodologies
- Strong understanding with securing container-based systems (Docker, Kuberntes, etc)
- Working understanding of CVE, CWE, CVSS scoring, MitRE ATT&CK Framework, threat intelligence, and CISA
- Possess excellent analytical, written, and verbal communication and documentation skills.
Experience:
- Bachelor's Degree or Associate Degree plus 2 years of relevant experience required
- 12 years minimum experience in related functions
- 5-7 years experience leading through mentorship in a related field
- 5-7 years experience driving thought leadership and innovation across products
- Relevant certifications or licenses preferred
What We Offer: Generous benefits package available on day one to include: 401K matching, bonding leave for new parents (12 weeks, 100% paid), training, GM employee auto discount, community service pay and nine company holidays.
Our Culture: Our team members define and shape our culture. We have an environment that welcomes new ideas, fosters integrity, and creates a sense of community and belonging. Here we do more than work - we thrive.
Compensation: Competitive salary and bonus eligibility; this role is eligible for company vehicle program
Work Life Balance: Flexible hybrid work environment, 4-days a week in office
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