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Security Specialist Sr: Security Assessments
PNCHome Location-GA (GAH01), United States, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 7 May 2025
About the role
Position Overview
At PNC, our people are our greatest differentiator and competitive advantage in the markets we serve. We are all united in delivering the best experience for our customers. We work together each day to foster an inclusive workplace culture where all of our employees feel respected, valued and have an opportunity to contribute to the company’s success. As a Security Specialist Sr within PNC's Enterprise Information Security organization, you will be based remotely in Georgia.**PNC will not provide sponsorship for employment visas or participate in STEM OPT for this position.**
The security assessment team is responsible for identifying & assessing security posture through centralized management of security assessment methodology and execution of assessments in order to reduce inherent risk and increase quality of risk management. The team falls in the Enterprise Information Security organization (executive leader is the CISO) under the Policy, Governance, and Assessment department and is split into two functional areas including Security Assessment Process Engineering and Security Assessment Execution.
Collectively the team offers a suite of security assessments that intersect across the technology lifecycle by embedding within enterprise processes such as: Enterprise Architecture technology standards, Enterprise Change Office Change Methodology Framework, and The Technology Delivery Factory Permit to Operate.
Key stakeholders include security architecture, enterprise architecture, application system managers, security leadership & operations teams, line of business technology projects, risk & resiliency, third party management, and fraud partners.
As a Security Assessment team Security Specialist, you will be responsible for assessing new and changing technologies for security risks and compliance with PNC policy and standards, delivery and oversight of security requirements on change projects, and continuous improvement/maturity of the team’s security assessment processes.
You will work with stakeholders across the technology and business lines to deliver secure solution architectures and to identify new or compensating controls for novel risks. Your role will ensure technology assessments are comprehensive by engaging partners within security (third party, attack surface management, cryptography, etc.) to provide a single security point of view.
Job Description
- Provides technical evaluation and analysis in a specific Security area. Supports activities, process, and tools needed to improve overall security posture of the organization. Primary responsibilities do not include Architect or Engineering responsibilities. Provides subject matter expertise.
- Applies security concepts, reviews information, executes defined tasks, analyzes requirements, reviews logs, creates documentation. Performs investigation and data loss prevention, data manipulation, coordination of activities. Performs actions to address or mitigate risks and vulnerabilities. Reviews and defines controls.
- Advises on more complex security procedures and products for clients, security administrators and network operations. Participates in enforcement of control security risks and threats; potential of one more controls subject to manager discretion. Shares knowledge with staff.
- Conducts security assessments and other information security routines consistently. Investigates and recommends corrective actions for data security related to established guidelines.
- Develops policies and procedures to standardize security functions and eliminate potential vulnerabilities and threats. Oversees that business needs are being met during development.
- Shares knowledge, leads and mentors are the discretion of management. Aligns the controls of a specific Security area to the enterprise framework. Devises control implementation strategy.
PNC Employees take pride in our reputation and to continue building upon that we expect our employees to be:
- Customer Focused - Knowledgeable of the values and practices that align customer needs and satisfaction as primary considerations in all business decisions and able to leverage that information in c
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