Senior Penetration Tester
Senior Penetration Tester
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Job Description
Contribute to leadingedge security and resilience efforts advancing protective strategies and propelling continuous improvement.
As an Assessments & Exercises Vice President in Penetration Test you will play a significant role in enhancing our firms cybersecurity and resiliency posture. You will use industrystandard assessment methodologies and techniques to proactively identify risks and vulnerabilities in our people processes and technology. As a key member of our team you will perform handson penetration testing of some of our most critical applications platforms and the perimeter. You will collaborate with application developers to understand and mitigate vulnerabilities and to identify opportunities for early detection in the SDLC.
We are looking for team members who are eager to learn drive to excel and have excellent technical knowledge of security concepts and proven expertise in penetration testing.
Job responsibilities
- Design and execute testing and simulations such as penetration tests technical controls assessments cyber exercises or resiliency simulations and contribute to the development and refinement of assessment methodologies tools and frameworks to ensure alignment with the firms strategy and compliance with regulatory requirements
- Evaluate controls for effectiveness and impact on operational risk as well as opportunities to automate control evaluation
- Collaborate closely with crossfunctional teams to develop comprehensive assessment reports including detailed findings risk assessments and remediation recommendations making datadriven decisions that encourage continuous improvement
- Utilize threat intelligence and security research to stay informed about emerging threats vulnerabilities industry best practices and regulations. Apply this knowledge to enhance the firms assessment strategy and risk management. Engage with peers and industry groups that share threat intelligence analytics
Required qualifications capabilities and skills
- Experience in conducting manual penetration tests against a wide variety of applications and technologies including web mobile and thick clients internal and external facing infrastructures cloud
- Foundational knowledge of cybersecurity organization practices operations risk management processes principles architectural requirements engineering and threats and vulnerabilities including incident response methodologies
- Ability to identify systemic security or resiliency issues as they relate to threats vulnerabilities or risks with a focus on recommendations for enhancements or remediation and proficiency in multiple security assessment methodologies (e.g. Open Worldwide Application Security Project (OWASP) Top Ten National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Cybersecurity Framework) offensive testing tools or resiliency testing equivalents
- Excellent communication collaboration and report writing skills with the ability to influence and engage stakeholders across various functions and levels
Preferred qualifications capabilities and skills
- Proficiency in security concepts for both Windows and Unixlike Operating Systems
- Experience in source code review and/or building software with multiple programming languages (i.e. Python Java Rust etc.
- Experience in reverse engineering standalone thick client and mobile applications
- Certifications like CREST (CRT CCT) OSCP OSCE GXPN GRE
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
