Penetration Tester

Job description

Job Description

The Red Team conducts advanced adversary emulation operations to challenge assumptions and emulate offensive threat actors targeting or attacking the client.

As a Red Team member, you will participate in the design and execution of campaign-based security operations for target networks, spanning a varying array of targets.

Successful team members must be capable of evaluating environments, applications, systems or processes to discover weaknesses, and subsequently leverage those discoveries into actionable real-world attack strategies.

To succeed in this role the candidate will possess breadth and depth of knowledge in security of operating systems, networking and protocols, firewalls, databases and middleware applications, forensics, scripting and programing.

All red team members are expected to continuously improve their tradecraft through research, to add breadth and depth to their knowledge as part of the Red Team.

Required Skills

- TS//SCI with CI Polygraph

- Bachelors' Degree or industry equivalent work experience in IT, Computer Engineering or a similar field 

- Relevant, recent and verifiable experience in information security and adversary simulation 

- Detailed knowledge of global cyber threats, threat actors, and the tactics, techniques and procedures used by cyber adversaries, specifically those targeting the financial services sector 

- 5+ years experience in two or more of the following areas: 

    - Network penetration testing and manipulation of network infrastructure 

    - Web application penetration testing assessments 

     - Email, phone, or physical social-engineering assessments 

    - Developing, extending, or modifying exploits, shell code or exploit tools 

    - Experience with Red, Blue, or Purple teaming exercises 

    - Experience in large scale information technology implementations and operations preferred 

- Industry certifications such as OSCP, OSCE, OSWE, GPEN, GCIH, GWAPT, or GXPN

Desired Skills

- Engagement in all phases of Red Team security operations 

- Work within the Red Team to perform physical exploitation, network exploitation and social engineering assessments against authorized targets 

- Perform network reconnaissance and open source intelligence gathering 

- Configure and safely utilize attack tools, tactics, and procedures against authorized client targets 

- Develop scripts, tools, or methodologies to enhance the client's red teaming capabilities 

- Help to execute the Red Team strategy to further enhance the client's security posture 

- Effectively communicate findings and strategy to client stakeholders including technical staff, executive leadership, and legal counsel 

- Ability to deliver clear, concise and professional verbal and written reports and presentations to both technical and executive audiences 

- Provide risk-appropriate and pragmatic recommendations to correct identified flaws, vulnerabilities and misconfigurations 

- Provide guidance to advance the defensive capabilities of the client's network operations and defense team and its subsequent ability to defend client networks 

- Understand business processes, internal control risk management, IT controls and related standards 

- Identify and evaluate complex business and technology risks, internal controls which mitigate risks, and related opportunities for internal control improvement 

- Understand clients' business environment and basic risk management approaches 

- Build and nurture positive working relationships with internal clients with the intention to exceed their expectations

About WarCollar Industries

COVID-19 Vaccination Policy:

Prospective and/or new employees will be required to adhere to the customer’s vaccination policy.

About us:

WarCollar Industries, LLC is a veteran-owned small business.

We maintain a team of cybersecurity experts committed to protecting complicated data and distribution systems and providing decision makers with the most accurate assessment of residual risk possible.

We work with our clients to solve the toughest challenges in the ever-evolving digital landscape.

Services include network defense, computer network attack, secure network design, penetration testing and vulnerability assessment.

WarCollar enables its clients to find, fix, stop, and ultimately solve cybersecurity problems across their entire enterprise.

WarCollar offers generous benefits including: Medical insurance premium coverage; PTO based on billable hours; federal holidays plus your birthday; matching 401k, education reimbursement plus paid training days; performance bonuses; referral bonuses; government shutdown protection; monthly team building events plus two major social events annually.

WarCollar Industries, LLC is an equal opportunity employer.

WarCollar does not discriminate in employment based upon race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity), national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, membership in an employee organization, retaliation, parental status, status as a protected military veteran, or other non-merit factor.

Required Skill Profession

Computer Occupations