Senior Penetration Tester (Washington DC)
Primary Responsibilities:
- Assisting customers with penetration testing activities to include threat emulation against traditional network enterprise environments.
- Maintain in-depth technical knowledge of adversarial activity in order to replicate similar tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) during assessments.
- Assess customers security posture through the use of automated tools and manual techniques to identify, verify and exploit security vulnerabilities.
- Use creative approaches and techniques to identify vulnerabilities that are commonly missed in security assessments, and automated tools.
- Trigger vulnerabilities and identify specific, meaningful risks to customers based on business and mission impact to critical infrastructure/network environments.
- Provide detail-oriented technical assistance with remediation and mitigation efforts, often in the form of verbal and/or written communication to the customer.
- Create comprehensive assessment reports that clearly define vulnerability findings and all scoped requirements defined within the rules of engagement.
- Interface with client personnel and trusted agents to gather information, clarify scope and investigate security controls in depth.
Experience:
- Bachelor's Degree and five (5) years of experience performing full scope penetration testing of enterprise systems.
- Experience in a team lead or project management role.
- Some technical Penetration Testing qualification: OSCP / OSCE (Preferred)
- Ability to conduct full scope penetration testing of enterprise systems, including but not limited to: Active Directory (AD) enumeration, exploitation, and escalation of privileges, web application testing for custom flaws, wireless testing, password cracking, phishing and social engineering.
- Knowledge of vulnerability scanning and testing tools (Nmap, Nessus, Burp Suite Professional, Cobalt Strike, Metasploit, EyeWitness, Whatweb, SQLMap, Shodan, Censys.io, and other tools as deemed appropriate for the mission.
- Functional ability to leverage both Windows and Linux Operating Systems (OS).
- Ability to adapt to new Techniques, Tactics, and Procedures (TTPs) associated with realistic threats to improve vulnerability findings.
- Understanding of common attacker TTPs in order to perform threat analysis during assessments.
- Experience troubleshooting and understanding vulnerability scanning, testing tools and manual testing techniques to determine vulnerability findings that are missed.
- Experience with a scripting language to automate tasks (Python, Bash, Perl, etc.)
Education Requirements:
- Cybersecurity, Information Technology, Computer Science, or Related.
Certification Requirements:
- OSCP (Preferred).
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