Senior Penetration Tester WebAPIThick-Clients - Assessments Exercises Vice President
Senior Penetration Tester WebAPIThick-Clients - Assessments Exercises Vice President
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$ 133000 - 225000
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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 the Cybersecurity and Technology Controls line of business you will contribute significantly to enhancing the firms cybersecurity or resiliency posture by using industrystandard assessment methodologies and techniques to proactively identify risks and vulnerabilities in people processes and technology. Design and deploy riskdriven tests and simulations (or manage a highlyskilled team that does) and inform analysis to clearly outline rootcauses. In this role you will evaluate preventative controls incident response processes and detection capabilities and advise crossfunctional teams on security strategy and risk management.
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
- 5 years of experience in cybersecurity or resiliency with demonstrated exceptional organizational skills to plan design and coordinate the development of offensive security testing assessments or simulation exercises
- Significant experience conducting manual penetration tests against a wide variety of applications and technologies with a focus on web API and thickclients
- Proficiency in software development and debugging
- Understanding of local data storage encryption and application security
- Knowledge of US financial services sector cybersecurity or resiliency organization practices operations risk management processes principles regulations threats risks and 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
- Experience with hardware hacking tools and techniques
- Ability to analyze binary firmware images and reverse engineer code
- Certifications like OSWE CREST (CRT CCT) OSCP OSCE GXPN GWAPT GPEN BSCP
This role is also open to Atlanta GA Chicago IL Washington DC Houston TX Jersey City NJ McLean VA Plano TX Tampa FL Brooklyn NY Wilmington DE.
Required Experience:
Chief
Employment Type
Full-Time
