Penetration Testing - Director - Cybersecurity Engineering

Morgan Stanley · Bengaluru · 5+ yrs experience · Posted 2026-06-15

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About the role

Responsibilities:
- Perform security assessments of targeted assets to identify and remediate vulnerabilities.
- Provide coverage of the key controls supporting cybersecurity with specific focus on penetration testing/ethical hacking processes.
- Participate in planning, testing, documentation, and determining effectiveness of the security controls across Morgan Stanley critical assets.
- Assist in the development and analysis of key metrics to identify trends in cybersecurity.
- Establish strong relationships with senior leadership, related controls groups and business groups.
- Share knowledge, techniques and toolsets within the team to build proficiency in the Cyber Security landscape.
Qualifications:
- 7 or more years of total work experience, with at least 5 years in IT Security.
- Significant experience with ethical hacking/penetration testing.
- Excellent understanding of defense-in-depth principles and network security architecture.
- Knowledge of the common attack vectors and associated mitigation controls.
- Knowledge of penetration testing principles, techniques and tools.
- Knowledge of vulnerability scoring systems (CVSS/CMSS).
- People/Communication skills:
- Ability to learn new technologies.
- Excellent writing and presentation skills are required in order to communicate findings and status.
- Cleary communicate priorities and escalation points/procedures to other team members.
- Detail oriented, organized, methodical, follow up skills with analytical thought process.

Qualifications

- 7 or more years of total work experience, with at least 5 years in IT Security.
- Significant experience with ethical hacking/penetration testing.
- Excellent understanding of defense-in-depth principles and network security architecture.
- Knowledge of the common attack vectors and associated mitigation controls.
- Knowledge of penetration testing principles, techniques and tools.
- Knowledge of vulnerability scoring systems (CVSS/CMSS).
- People/Communication skills:
- Ability to learn new technologies.
- Excellent writing and presentation skills are required in order to communicate findings and status.
- Cleary communicate priorities and escalation points/procedures to other team members.
- Detail oriented, organized, methodical, follow up skills with analytical thought process.

Responsibilities

- Perform security assessments of targeted assets to identify and remediate vulnerabilities.
- Provide coverage of the key controls supporting cybersecurity with specific focus on penetration testing/ethical hacking processes.
- Participate in planning, testing, documentation, and determining effectiveness of the security controls across Morgan Stanley critical assets.
- Assist in the development and analysis of key metrics to identify trends in cybersecurity.
- Establish strong relationships with senior leadership, related controls groups and business groups.
- Share knowledge, techniques and toolsets within the team to build proficiency in the Cyber Security landscape.

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