Cyber-Security/Information Security | Senior Threat Modeler
This position is no longer accepting applications(closed Jul 25, 2026).
Role: Senior Threat Modeler
Location: London / Belfast
Start Date: ASAP
End Date: 6 Months
Daily Rate: Competitive Day Rate, Inside IR35
Payroll provider – Rockford Payroll Info for Contingent Workers – Rockford Pay
Responsibilities
- Threat
Modeling using a documented process.
- Development
of automation tools as required.
- Maintain a
high standard of work in identifying threats and specifying mitigating
controls.
- Attending
to the lifecycle of identified threats and controls.
- Delivery
of threat models and supporting tasks within existing timeframes.
- Provide
feedback, support, and improvements to the existing threat modeling process.
- Present
work to seniors, the team, and other technical teams.
- Train
newer members of the team
- Supervise
junior members of the team
- Run parts
of our threat model service
- Work with
little supervision to complete work
- Develop, test, and deploy secure and
efficient Python-based applications, adhering to established SDLC processes and
quality standards.
Certification Requirements
- You’re
expected to have a professional level cloud certification (defined
further below) from either AWS, GCP or
Azure.
- You’re
expected to have a vendors cloud security certification (defined further
below) from either AWS, GCP or Azure.
- You’re
expected to have a professional cyber-security certification (defined
further below).
Technical skills
- You’re expected to have five or more
years of experience in several of the following:
- IT
experience minimum of 10 years with minimum of 4 years
Cyber-Security/Information Security – must
- Threat
Modeling (STRIDE, PASTA, Attack trees, tooling, Att&ck) – must.
- Identifying
vulnerabilities using CWE or OWASP.
- Experience
working in a cyber-security role - must.
- Security
practices pertaining to authentication, authorization, logging/monitoring,
encryption, infrastructure security, network/segmentation – must.
- Operating
systems and their hardening.
- Development
concepts (such as: CICD, Pipelines, SDLC) – must.
- Scripting
languages, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation) – must.
- Cloud
Development Kit (CDK), GitOps.
- Operating
in a DevOps / agile team structure.
- Jira or
other ticketing systems.
- Understanding
of docker/K8S/serverless/helm – must.
- Support or
perform pen testing.
- Snowflake/MongoDB/Terraform
Cloud/GitHub/Databricks.
- Design and
review technical architectures.
- Strong proficiency in Programming
Languages, with a preference for Python (asynchronous programming), and FastAPI
(must).
- Unit Testing: Developing and
executing unit tests using frameworks like Pytest to ensure code quality
(must).
- Ensure all software platforms adhere
to the client’s security standards and Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
processes (must).
Essential skills
- Analytical,
diligence and attention to detail.
- Eagerness
to research using vendor documentation.
- Create and
maintain quality documentation.
- Experience
of regulated environment.
- Adversary
mindset.
- Work with
diverse set of people and teams.
- Constant
learner of new technologies and methodologies.
- Problem
solver.
- Communication
and collaboration skills.
- Builder of
relationships across cross-functional teams.
Education
- Bachelor's degree in computer related field
or equivalent work experience.
Professional level cloud certification
- AWS
Certified Solutions Architect, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
- Google
Cloud Architect, Cloud Developer, Data Engineer, Network Engineer, and more
- Oracle
Cloud Infrastructure Certified Architect Professional, Oracle Cloud
Infrastructure HPC and Big Data Solutions Associate
- Microsoft
Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert
Cloud security certification
- Google
Professional Cloud Security Engineer
- Microsoft
Certified Azure Security Engineer Associate
- AWS
Certified Security - Specialty
Professional cyber-security certification
- ISACA
Certified Information Security Manager (CISM)
- GIAC
Certified Enterprise Defender (GCED), GIAC Certified Intrusion Analyst (GCIA),
GIAC Open Source Intelligence (GOSI)
- ISC2
Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)
- CompTIA
CASP+, CompTIA PenTest+
- Microsoft
Certified: Identity and Access Administrator Associate