Principal Consultant, Offensive Security (Unit 42)

Your Career

The Principal Consultant on the Offensive Security team is focused on assessing and challenging the security posture across a comprehensive portfolio of clients. The individual will have experience leading Red & Purple team engagements. They will be the clients advocate for cybersecurity best practices related to offensive security and will provide strong recommendations in this domain. 

Your Impact

• Performs client penetration testing to find any vulnerabilities or weaknesses that might be exploited by a malicious party using open-source custom and commercial testing tools - Red Team experience essential
• Ability to assist in scoping engagements by clearly articulating various penetration approaches and methodologies to audiences ranging from highly technical to executive personnel
• Report generation that clearly communicates testing and assessment details results and remediation recommendations to clients
• Develop scripts tools and methodologies to automate and streamline internal processes and engagements
• Conducts periodic scans of networks to find and detect vulnerabilities
• Conducts IT application testing cybersecurity tool and systems analysis system and network administration and systems engineering support for the sustainment of information technology systems (mobile application testing penetration testing application security and hardware testing)
• Conduct threat hunting and/or compromise assessment engagements to identify active or dormant indicators of compromise (IoCs) using Crypsis and Palo Alto Networks threat hunting tools (and/or client owned hunting instrumentation where applicable)
• Conduct cloud penetration testing engagements to assess specific workloads (i.e. AWS GCP Azure containers or other PaaS and SaaS instances) for vulnerabilities and subsequently attempt to exploit identified weakness after receiving permission from client stakeholders
• Provide recommendations to clients on specific security measures to monitor and protect sensitive data and systems from infiltration and cyber-attacks including response and recovery of a data security breach
• Ability to perform travel requirements as needed to meet business demands  

Qualifications :

Your Experience 

• 6 years of professional experience leading Red & Purple team engagements Advanced Attack Simulations OSINT research social engineering techniques bespoke security assessments and exploit development
• Experience testing a range of technologies (Active Directory major OSs cloud environments IoT / OT) and using a range of security tools and technologies inc AI-enabled to automate and tailor engagements.
• Demonstrate a deep understanding of how malicious software works (i.e.-malware trojans rootkits etc.)
• Ability to modify known and/or craft custom exploits manually without dependence on consumer tools such as Metasploit
• Strong knowledge of tools and techniques used to conduct network wireless and web application penetration testing
• Familiarity with web application penetration testing and code auditing to find security gaps and vulnerabilities
• Experience with penetration testing administering and troubleshooting major flavors of Linux Windows and major cloud IaaS PaaS and SaaS providers (i.e. AWS GCP and Azure)
• Experience with scripting and editing existing code and programming using one or more of the following - Perl Python ruby bash C/C C# or Java
• Experience with security assessment tools including Nessus OpenVAS MobSF Metasploit Burp Suite Pro Cobalt Strike Bloodhound and Empire
• Knowledge of application database and web server design and implementation
• Knowledge of network vulnerability assessments web and cloud application security testing network penetration testing red teaming security operations or hunt
• Knowledge of open security testing standards and projects including OWASP & MITRE ATT&CK
• Ability to read and use the results of mobile code malicious code and anti-virus software
• Knowledge of computer forensic tools technologies and methods
• Assist in the development of internal infrastructure design for research development and testing focused on offensive security

• Identified ability to grow into a valuable contributor to the practice and specifically

  • develop an external presence via public speaking conferences and/or publications

  • have credibility executive presence and gravitas

  • be able to have a meaningful delivery contribution

  • have the potential and capacity to understand all aspects of the business and an excellent understanding of PANW products

  • be collaborative and able to build relationships internally externally and across all PANW functions including the account teams

• Bachelors Degree in Information Security Computer Science Digital Forensics Cyber Security or equivalent years of professional experience to meet job requirements and expectations or equivalent military experience required
• Hold industry leading certifications from OffSec (OSCE / OSCP / OSWP etc) CREST GIAC (SANS) and preferably published vulnerabilities competition winners conference talks and published papers or thought leadership

Additional Information :

The Team

Unit 42 Consulting is Palo Alto Networks security advisory team.  Our vision is to create a more secure digital world by providing the highest quality incident response risk management and digital forensic services to clients of all sizes. Our team is composed of recognized experts and incident responders with deep technical expertise and experience in investigations data breach response digital forensics and information security. With a highly successful track record of delivering mission-critical cybersecurity solutions we are experienced in working quickly to provide an effective incident response attack readiness and remediation plans with a focus on providing long-term support to improve our clients security posture. 

Our Commitment

Were problem solvers that take risks and challenge cybersecuritys status quo. Its simple: we cant accomplish our mission without diverse teams innovating together.

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Remote Work :

Yes

Employment Type :

Full-time