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
Experience:
• Five to eight years direct related work experience
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.
Preferred Skills:
• Previous Professional Services consulting experience
• Industry certification such as CCIE, CCNA, CISSP, CCSE, MCSE desirable
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.