Penetration Tester

Peraton is seeking an experienced Cyber Penetration Tester to become part of Peratons Department of State (DoS) Diplomatic Security Cyber Mission (DSCM) program providing leading cyber and technology security experience to enable innovative effective and secure business processes.

Location: Arlington VA. Flexible for occasional telework must be local to work location.

In this role you will:

• Support the Department of State Red Cell Team by performing and leading penetration tests to assess the security of customer systems.
• Identify vulnerabilities and develop recommended remediations to satisfy mandated NIST 80053 security controls.
• Report and demonstrate findings to system owners and engineers.
• Maintain Red Cell infrastructure.
• Develop or modify tools to automate discovery or exploitation.

Required:

• Bachelor of Science and 5 years of relevant experience in Cyber/IT or a Masters of Science and 3 years of relevant experience in Cyber/IT. In lieu of a degree 4 years of additional IT security or penetration testing experience may be considered.
• Minimum of 2 years with penetration testing experience.
• Possess one of the following certifications OR be able to obtain before start date:
  • CCNA Cyber Ops CCNASecurity CEH CFR Cloud CySA GCIA GCIH GICSP SCYBER Security CE SSCP
• Demonstrated experience with Kali Linux.
• Demonstrated penetration testing tools experience with Nmap Burp Suite Metasploit etc.
• Demonstrated ability in evaluating vulnerabilities performing root cause analysis and reporting findings utilizing assessment methodologies such as NIST SP 800115 Penetration Testing Standard (PTES) Information Systems Security Assessment Framework (ISSAF) OWASP Web Security Testing Guide (WTG) etc.
• Demonstrated ability to lead a penetration test and guide Senior/Junior Penetration Testers.
• U.S. citizenship required.
• An active Secret security clearance.
  • Must have the ability to obtain a final Top Secret security clearance.

Preferred:

• Active Top Secret or TS/SCI clearance.
• One of the following certifications or an alternate verifiable certification demonstrating IT security competence:
  • CompTIA CASP
  • ISC2 Certified Information Security Professional (CISSP)
  • ISC2 Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP)
  • ISC2 Information Systems Security Engineering Professional (ISSEP)
• One of the following certifications or an alternate verifiable certification demonstrating practical penetration testing competence:
  • Offensive Security Certified Professional (OSCP)
  • Offensive Security Certified Professional (OSCP)
  • Hack the Box Certified Penetration Testing Specialist (CPTS)
  • TCM Security Practical Network Penetration Tester (PNPT)
  • GIAC Exploit Researcher and Advanced Penetration Tester (GXPN)
  • Zero Point Security Red Team Ops II
• Advanced understanding of the following:
  • NIST Risk Management Framework (RMF) and the Assessment and Authorization (A&A) process.
  • Security principles such as CIA IAAAA access control models risk management etc.
  • Networking principles and technologies such as IP routing TCP/UDP VPNs firewalls NAT etc.
  • Common network protocols such as SSH FTP SMTP SMB HTTP etc.
  • Operating system principles such as process management device management user management file systems etc.
  • Data processing principles such as encoding hashing encryption etc.
  • Scripting and programming languages such as Bash Python PowerShell JavaScript etc.
  • Common application vulnerabilities and exploits such as outdated components
  • permissions misconfigurations lack of input validation logging/monitoring failures etc.
  • Common web application vulnerabilities and exploits such as XSS SQLi LFI file uploads broken authentication mechanisms etc.
  • Active Directory (AD) enumeration and attacks such as kerberoasting ASREP roasting abusing misconfigured privileges crafting golden tickets etc.
  • Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) and navigating IT environments implementing multifactor authentication.
  • Cloud technologies and platforms such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) Microsoft Azure Google Cloud Platform (GCP) etc.

Peraton is a nextgeneration national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the worlds leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider we deliver trusted highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land sea space air and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day our employees do the cant be done by solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers. Visit peraton to learn how were keeping people around the world safe and secure.