Proactive Attack Surface Leader (ASM, BAS) in Knutsford

Purpose of the role: To keep our customers, clients, and colleagues safe by identifying cyber‑vulnerabilities across the Bank, using a risk‑based approach to prioritise them, and to drive effective remediation activity.

Accountabilities:

• Allocation of the correct risk rating and remediation prioritisation to a vulnerability based on industry standards for assessment, available threat intelligence concerning exploitation, the reachability of the host (or asset) and the value of the service(s) running on the impacted host.
• Development of vulnerability management operating model, policies and procedures to ensure consistency in vulnerability identification, remediation and reporting.
• Element owner of the Vulnerability Management Standard including Issues Management and Regulatory alignment.
• Communication of vulnerabilities to relevant parties including senior stakeholders, vendors, external security partners and affected business units using reports and dashboards and provide recommendations for improvement in vulnerability management practices.
• Collaboration with Threat intelligence and Cyber Operations teams to assess and contextualise exposure to latest threat trends and exploits and set appropriate remediation timescales.
• Definition of requirements and acceptance criteria for the implementation and maintenance of automation tools to streamline vulnerability management processes within operating systems and applications.
• Reporting of remediation status of Security Assurance Specialist team findings against Key Risk Indicators.

Vice President Expectations:

• To contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change.
• Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/processes; deliver continuous improvements and elevate breaches of policies/procedures.
• If managing a team, they define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department’s future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes.
• They may also lead a number of specialists to influence the operations of a department, in alignment with strategic as well as tactical priorities, while balancing short and long term goals and ensuring that budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements.
• If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard.
• The four LEAD behaviours are: L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energise and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D – Develop others.
• For an individual contributor, they will be a subject matter expert within own discipline and will guide technical direction.
• They will lead collaborative, multi-year assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments.
• They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions.
• Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross functional areas of impact and alignment.
• Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does.
• Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies.
• Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives.
• In-depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions.
• Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem solving processes.
• Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in order to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills to achieve outcomes.

All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship – our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave.

Join our Proactive Defence team as an Enterprise Security Posture Management SME, leading capabilities across Attack Surface Management (ASM), Attack Path Management (APM), and Breach & Attack Simulation (BAS) within the CISO organization. You will drive a proactive, threat‑informed approach to exposure management, helping the bank identify, prioritise, and reduce exploitable security risk through greater visibility, attack path analysis, and continuous control validation. This role is critical to shifting from reactive vulnerability management to proactive exposure reduction by providing continuous visibility of the attack surface, mapping how attackers can move through the environment, and validating security controls through adversary simulation. In doing so, you will help the organization identify, prioritise, and reduce exploitable security risk in a way that is threat‑informed, measurable, and directly tied to business impact.

To be successful in this role, you should have experience with:

• Attack surface discovery and asset attribution
• Ability to continuously identify internet-facing assets, shadow IT, domains, subdomains, certificates, cloud services, APIs, SaaS exposures, third‑party hosted assets, and assets with unclear ownership
• Risk‑based exposure prioritisation
• Ability to prioritise the most material exposures by combining exploitability, business criticality, asset ownership, threat intelligence, vulnerability data, and likelihood of attack
• Threat-informed attack surface analysis
• Ability to enrich attack surface findings with attacker techniques, active exploitation trends, KEV data, offensive security teams findings, and sector‑specific threat intelligence

Highly valued skills for this role include:

• Hands‑on experience with EASM/ASM platforms
• Experience using tools such as external attack surface management, CAASM, vulnerability management, cloud posture, and exposure management platforms
• Cloud, identity, SaaS, CI/CD and API exposure knowledge
• Understanding of common attack surface risks across AWS, Azure, GCP, Entra ID, Active Directory, Kubernetes, APIs, internet gateways, and exposed management interfaces
• Understanding of Breach and Attack Simulation techniques
• Ability to use BAS outputs to validate whether identified exposures are exploitable, test control effectiveness, simulate attacker behaviours, and support evidence-based prioritisation

You may be assessed on the critical skills required for success in this role, including risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking, digital and technology, and job‑specific technical skills.

Location: Knutsford.