Penetration Testing, Director

Do you want your voice heard and your actions to count

Discover your opportunity with Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) one of the worlds leading financial groups. Across the globe were 150000 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 worlds most trusted financial group its 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.

The selected colleague will work at an MUFG office or client sites four days per week and work remotely one day. A member of our recruitment team will provide more details.

EDUCATION

• Bachelors degree in computer science or related field applicable specialized training or equivalent work experience equally preferable field.

CERTIFICATIONS

• CISSP CEH GPEN GCIH OSCP OSWE or similar

WORK EXPERIENCE

• Extensive leadership experience in Cybersecurity with proven track record in offensive security or penetration testing

• Experience successfully managing technical teams or security programs

• Experience successfully leading penetration testing campaigns across global environments

• Demonstrated success with incident response collaboration to improve detection and response

• Experience assessing Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies and process workflows

• Experience in Financial Services or other highly regulated industries preferred

FUNCTIONAL SKILLS

• Demonstrated strength in Penetration Testing with in-depth knowledge of and experience simulating real-world attacks on networks applications and cloud environments

• Comprehensive knowledge of adversary simulation frameworks (e.g. OWASP NIST MITRE ATT&CK)

• Deep experience with tools such as: Metasploit Burp Suite C2 Frameworks Nmap Wireshark Python PowerShell or Bash

• Extensive background in cloud security and demonstrated knowledge of AWS Azure or GCP security models and attack surfaces

• Comprehensive knowledge of secure development practices including: secure coding DevSecOps and CI/CD pipeline security (with AI IDE integration workloads)

• Demonstrated strength managing and mentoring a team of penetration testers and security practitioners

• Extensive background building and scaling offensive security programs

• Deep experience translating technical findings into business risk for executive stakeholders

• Deep practical knowledge of financial regulations (e.g. FFIEC SOX PCI-DSS GDPR)

FOUNDATIONAL SKILLS

• Communicates effectively

• Anticipates changing business needs adjusts priorities accordingly and allocates necessary resources and budget to achieve objectives

• Equips the business to become an effective competitor in a highly dynamic landscape

• Considers stakeholder needs and input as well as best practices and insights from industry trends when making strategic decisions

• Is flexible decisive and serves as a trusted advisor to senior leaders within the organization

• Demonstrates effective negotiation and influencing skills

• Prioritizes and facilitates a culture of continuous improvement and systems thinking

• Sets the tone for successful collaboration with other business units and corporate entities

• Creates an environment that fosters communication transparency and collaboration

• Cultivates innovation and values learning as a lifelong professional objective

• Leads by example engaging inclusively and with intent

• Always acts with integrity

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Develop and implement a comprehensive penetration testing strategy that aligns with the organizations security objectives

• Oversee the planning execution and reporting of penetration tests across applications infrastructure cloud and third-party environments

• Lead mentor and manage the team providing guidance on complex testing scenarios and methodologies

• Deploy testing methodologies and offensive security strategies to identify infrastructure vulnerabilities

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to communicate findings risks and strategies to remediate them effectively

• Present testing coverage vulnerability trends and remediation strategies to executive stakeholders

• Provide expertise on implementation of advanced tools for automated and manual testing

• Drive innovation in offensive security tooling including custom scripts and frameworks

• Hire develop and retain top penetration testing talent

• Manage penetration testing budget and resource allocation

OTHER:

• As per MUFGs work policy must work onsite 4 days and 1 day remotely.

• The typical base pay range for this role is between $182K - $227K depending on job-related knowledge skills experience and location. This role may also be eligible for certain discretionary performance-based bonus and/or incentive compensation. Additionally our Total Rewards program provides colleagues with a competitive benefits package (in accordance with the eligibility requirements and respective terms of each) that includes comprehensive health and wellness benefits retirement plans educational assistance and training programs income replacement for qualified employees with disabilities paid maternity and parental bonding leave paid vacation sick days and holidays. For more information on our Total Rewards package please click the link below.

MUFG Benefits Summary

We will consider for employment all qualified applicants including those with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws (including (i) the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance (ii) the City of Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance (iii) the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance and (iv) the California Fair Chance Act) to the extent that (a) an applicant is not subject to a statutory disqualification pursuant to Section 3(a)(39) of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934 or Section 8a(2) or 8a(3) of the Commodity Exchange Act and (b) they do not conflict with the background screening requirements of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) and the National Futures Association (NFA). The major responsibilities listed above are the material job duties of this role for which the Company reasonably believes that criminal history may have a direct adverse and negative relationship potentially resulting in the withdrawal of conditional offer of employment if any.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities duties and skills required of personnel so classified.

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and committed to leveraging the diverse backgrounds perspectives and experience of our workforce to create opportunities for our colleagues and our business. We do not discriminate on the basis of race color national origin religion gender expression gender identity sex age ancestry marital status protected veteran and military status disability medical condition sexual orientation genetic information or any other status of an individual or that individuals associates or relatives that is protected under applicable federal state or local law.