Position Title: Senior Security Engineer (Senior Penetration Tester)
Description: Delivers consulting project activities, ranging from problem identification through final project close-out through medium to long term engagements requiring varied interpersonal and technical skills. Technical responsibilities include problem identification, system architecture assessment, application and/or network security assessment, security testing, client interaction, solution deployment and cost/schedule monitoring.
This work is remote but requires 25% travel within the United States.
Requirements
Education: | - Bachelor’s degree (B.S.) in Computer Science or a related field or equivalent experience
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Experience: | - Five to eight years direct related work experience
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Required Skills: | - 8 or more years of technical experience required, including at least 5 years in security services.
- Strong analytical skills required
- Must have direct experience in performing network and/or application security assessments including:
- Network or Application Vulnerability Assessments
- Penetration Tests
- Network or Application Architecture Assessments
- Must have excellent written and verbal communication skills and be able to:
- Read, analyze, and interpret common scientific and technical journals
- Document procedures that conform to a prescribed style and format
- Present information to management, public groups, and/or boards of directors.
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Preferred Skills: | - Previous Professional Services consulting experience
- Industry certification such as CCIE, CCNA, CISSP, CCSE, MCSE desirable
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Essential Functions
- Identify and assess customer information technology infrastructure regarding risks and vulnerabilities.
- Significant technical and operational knowledge of:
- Firewalls
- Network intrusion detection
- Security audits, diagnostics, forensic tools
- Web access controls
- Advanced authentication methods
- Management tools and procedures
- Enterprise security programs
- Be able to perform:
- Network or Application Vulnerability Assessments
- Penetration Tests
- Network or Application Architecture Assessments
Responsibilities and Additional Duties
- Work with minimal supervision as an individual contributor and as lead for engagement team when appropriate
- Manage technical contribution of matrix team(s) of security consultants and engineers toward successful project completion.