Senior Ethical Hacker

• Create reports and communicate findings to various technical teams, architects and engineers.
• Create and communicate processes that could help engineering teams meet remediation goals.
• Create and verbally present your test findings in debrief meetings with the C-Suite or sponsors.

Cloud Application

• Conduct penetration tests on cloud systems, applications and APIs to identify vulnerabilities.
• Assess cloud/application specific configurations, access controls, and encryption mechanisms.
• Validate and exploit security findings within web/thick client apps and cloud environments.
• Validate various app services, databases, Kubernetes, serverless functions, container instances,
• images and cloud storage blob/buckets for security issues.

Project work/Knowledge Share

• Assist/Create rules of engagement for new pen test projects.
• Architect automated workflows for independent security evaluation and assurance processes
• Establish and enforce security baseline controls through Policy-as-Code implementations
• Engineer custom Python, Terraform, and Ansible extensions to enable specialized security and
• infrastructure use cases
• Create or populate content in the internal training lab so developers and security champions can stay
• current in offensive security with practical CTF’s when time permits.
• Provide live hacking webinars for teams interested in learning by example.
• Conduct internal Red Team engagements.
• Participate in purple team engagements.

• Minimum 5-7+ years working in some aspect of cybersecurity (Offensive Security, Red Team
• experience preferred).
• Proficient with manual web/cloud penetration testing without using any tools.
• Proficient writing custom attack tools in Python, PHP, Golang and Bash Scripting.
• Proficient with interception proxies and attacking manually via Burp Suite Enterprise tool.
• Proficient building/maintaining attack automation systems (Commercial or Open-Source).
• Proficient building containers and automation pipelines for attacking purposes.
• Experience combining multiple low/medium findings to weaponize and achieve a higher level.
• Comfortable working exclusively from Windows or Linux command line.
• Comfortable “living off the land” using VIM/VI/Bash/SH/Perl/VBScript/WMI/PowerShell for post
• exploitation and lateral movement.
• Comfortable with writing XSS attacks, System/SQL injection payloads or weaponizing binaries.
• Comfortable attacking various popular public cloud services in (Azure/AWS/GCP/Oracle).
• Comfortable presenting audit findings to a small group or C-Suite during debrief meetings.
• Comfortable taking ownership for testing actions and performing blameless post-mortems.

Preference for the following additional Skills/Certifications

• OffSec Web Expert (OSWE) - Preferred
• OffSec (OSAI) - Preferred
• GIAC Web Application Penetration Tester (GWAPT)
• Burp Suite Certified Practitioner (BSCP)
• Pentester Academy Cloud Security Professional (PACSP)
• AI/LLM Penetration testing experience
• Acknowledged findings in a responsible disclosure or public, private Bug Bounty program.
• Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS)
• Terraform Associate (003)
• DevSecOps experience

Education and Experience

• Minimum 5 years relevant experience.
• Related Degree or Certificate, preferably in areas of Offensive Security, AI Red Teaming or Application
• Security

Benefits Summary: Regular full-time and part-time employees (working at least 20 hours per week) have access to medical, dental, and vision plans, a wellness program, health saving accounts, flexible spending accounts, 401(k) plan, employee stock purchase program, life and accidental death & dismemberment (AD&D) insurance, short-term/long-term disability plans, emergency travel benefits, tuition reimbursement, professional membership fee coverage and paid family leave. Regular full-time and part-time employees will receive ten paid holidays in each calendar year. In addition, employees will be eligible to accrue vacation between 10 and 20 days per year and eligible for paid sick leave (and if more generous, in accordance with state and local law).

Temporary/casual employees have access to 401(k) plans, employee stock purchase program, and paid leave, in accordance with state and local law.

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