Penetration Tester

Job Title : Penetration Tester
Work Location : Charlotte - Onsite in Charlotte for Hybrid model -onsite 4 days a week
Duration: 12 months with possible extension
Interview : Provide location and best time to interview. **Video conference interview.

Mandatory Skills : **Cyber Security Detection and Response Sr. Analyst. Key skills: ** Understanding of command lines; ** Penetration experience with web applications, mobile and API's; ** Experience working with GitLab Ultimate CI/CD technology, shift-left tools, and application security workflows. **Must have excellent communication skills, self-starter who will take initiative and lead, able to mentor and coach junior team members. Strong attention to detail and strong technical aptitude.

Job Description

The Work Itself

• Perform penetration testing against products and systems, including web applications, web services, and mobile devices.
• Assist with coordination of vendor pen testing services with internal development teams.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to develop remediation strategies.
• Demonstrating practical/working exploitation of security flaws.
• Develop and enhance process to automate the delivery of application security metrics.
• Review SAST/DAST output for false positives. Assist development with remediation.
• Serve as an application security subject matter expert.
• Participate in threat modeling exercises.
• Effectively communicate vulnerability details, risks, and potential impacts to, application owners, developers, stakeholders, and partners.
• Act as a mentor for junior team members/interns.
• Design, implement, and support security-focused tools and services.
• Develop tools that improve security testing, reporting, and monitoring.

The Skills You Bring

Requirements

• 12+ years of experience in manual penetration testing of web and mobile applications.
• Identify, research, and evaluate current vulnerabilities, provide remediation and configuration guidance. Collaborate with stakeholders to develop remediation strategies.
• Ability to interact with company personnel at all levels and across all business units to comprehend business imperatives. A strong customer/client focus, with the ability to manage expectations appropriately, to provide a superior customer/client experience and build long-term relationships.
• Competent to work independently at an advanced technical level.
• Produce well-written, detailed reports that describe vulnerabilities/risks and that provide specific remediation guidance.
• Understanding of cloud technologies and environments (AWS, Azure, Google).
• Ability to demonstrate a clear understanding, at an enterprise level, of application, network, infrastructure, and data security architecture.
• Excellent analytical skills, able to manage multiple projects under strict timelines, work well in a demanding dynamic environment, and meet overall objectives.
• Ability to work under pressure and manage competing priorities.
• Knowledge of web application frameworks, deployment technologies and security software.
• Scripting capabilities for creating custom scripts to identify/exploit vulnerabilities.
• Strong writing skills to produce detailed reports for consumption by stakeholders at all levels from operations to executive.

Desired Skillset, Experience, and/or Training

• Proven work experience in manual secure code review.
• Experience working with GitLab Ultimate CI/CD technology, shift-left tools, and application security workflows.
• GPEN, OSCP, CISSP, GWAPT, CEH, or similar certifications.
• Desired scripting experience: One or more of Python, JavaScript, PowerShell, shell script, Ruby, PHP, LUA etc.
• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology or Computer Science, or equivalent experience.
• Inherent passion for information security and service excellence.
• The ability to adapt to new situations and the desire to learn and stay current with AppSec trends, threats, and risks.

Job Responsibilities: Lead investigations into information security incidents. Drive efforts towards containment of threats and remediation of environment during or after an incident. Perform complex security investigations and root cause analyses. Assemble and coordinate with technical teams and third-party vendors to resolve incidents as quickly and efficiently as possible. Ensure that all incidents are recorded and tracked to meet audit and legal requirements where necessary. Coordinate ingestion of threat intelligence as it pertains to the response process and relevant vectors of attack. Coordinate Cyber Hunting exercises and maintain playbook. Oversee direction for SOC team and L1 response procedures. Build/Review use cases to be incorporated into Client's response process for real time alerting.