Manual Ethical Hacker

Job Description:

At Bank of America we are guided by a common purpose to help make financial lives better through the power of every connection. We do this by driving Responsible Growth and delivering for our clients teammates communities and shareholders every day.

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Bank of America is committed to an in-office culture with specific requirements for office-based attendance and which allows for an appropriate level of flexibility for our teammates and businesses based on role-specific considerations.

At Bank of America you can build a successful career with opportunities to learn grow and make an impact. Join us!

Job Description:

Manual Ethical Hacking is part of the Application Development Security Framework Program within Bank of Americas Cyber Security Assurance Offensive Security group. The program provides services to assess the vulnerability of the banks applications to malicious hacking activity.

This intermediate technical role is responsible for performing application security assessments of the banks technologies applications and cyber security controls while adapting testing methods to evolving and emerging threats. Key responsibilities include performing research understanding the banks security policies working with the appropriate partners to complete assessments and simulations identifying misconfigurations and vulnerabilities and reporting on associated risk. These individuals partner closely with security partners CIO clients and multiples lines of business.

Key Responsibilities in order of importance:

• Perform assigned analysis of internal and external threats on information systems and predict future threat behavior
• Incorporate threat actors tactics techniques and procedures into offensive security testing
• Perform assessments of the security effectiveness and practicality of multiple technology systems
• Leverage innovative thinking to help solve problems or introduce new ideas to processes or products applicable to offensive security.
• Prepare and present detailed technical information for various media including documents reports and notifications
• Provide clear and practical advice regarding managed risks
• Learn and develop advanced technical and leadership skills Mentor Junior assessors in technical tradecraft and soft skills

Required Skills:

• Minimum of 4 years of professional pentesting application security or ethical hacking experience preferably in a large complex enterprise environment
• Detailed technical knowledge in at least 3 of the following areas: security engineering; application architecture; authentication and security protocols; application session management; applied cryptography; common communication protocols; mobile frameworks; single sign-on technologies; exploit automation platforms; RESTful web services
• SQL injection/XSS attack without the use of tools
• Experience performing manual code reviews for security relevant issues
• Experience working with SAST tools to identify vulnerabilities
• Able to manually identify and reproduce findings discuss remediation concepts develop PoCs for vulnerabilities use scripting/coding techniques proficiently execute common penetration testing tools triage and support incidents and produce high value findings
• Experience performing manual web application assessments i.e. must be able to simulate a
• Knowledge of network and Web related protocols/technologies (e.g. UNIX/LINUX TCP/IP Cookies)
• Experience with vulnerability assessment tools and penetration testing techniques
• Solid programming/debugging skills
• Experience of using a variety of tools included but not limited to IBM AppScan Burp and SQL Map
• Threat Analysis
• Innovative Thinking
• Technology Systems Assessment
• Technical Documentation
• Advisory

Desired:

• CISSP CEH OSCP OSWE GPEN PenTest or similar
• Strong programming/scripting skills
• Mobile application analysis
• Frida
• Binary analysis (disassembly skills)

Skills:

• Advisory
• Innovative Thinking
• Technical Documentation
• Technology System Assessment
• Threat Analysis
• Adaptability
• Collaboration
• Executive Presence
• Scenario Planning and Analysis
• Test Engineering
• Controls Management
• Information Systems Management
• Issue Management
• Mentoring
• Presentation Skills

This job will be open and accepting applications for a minimum of seven days from the date it was posted.

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