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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).



Position

Backend Developer


Must have Skills

  • Cyber Security

    Beginner

  • Perl

    Beginner

  • Python

    Beginner

  • Linux

    Beginner

Client Payroll

Up to 450 K/Year USD (Annual salary)

Fully Remote

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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).



Job Type

Client Payroll


Positions

Backend Developer


Must have Skills

  • Cyber Security

    Beginner

  • Perl

    Beginner

  • Python

    Beginner

  • Linux

    Beginner

Up to 450 K/Year USD (Annual salary)

Longterm (Duration)

Fully Remote

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Thomas G

| United States