Penetration Tester

Job Description

Company: Unisity, LLC

Location: Mt Rainier, US

Location: Mt Rainier

Lead Penetration Tester

Unisity, LLC is a Service-Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business providing expert services in the Information Technology fields. We pride ourselves on delivering what is promised, as some would say we “just do”. We are highly-qualified, self-driven professionals who work towards a common goal as a team, leading when appropriate and following when needed.
Description

Lead Penetration Tester is needed to join a high performing agile team using the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) methodology on a large, complex program that provides system engineering, development, test, integration and operational support. The selected individual will work on a team of cyber Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) who are providing support to a large, complex technical program for preventing, identifying, containing and eradicating cyber threats to networks through monitoring, intrusion detection, and protective security services on information systems including local area networks/wide area networks (LAN/WAN), commercial Internet connections, public facing websites, security devices, servers and workstations.

She/he will be responsible for the overall security of Enterprise-wide information systems, and will collect, investigate, and report any suspected and confirmed security violations.

Due to federal contract requirements, United States Citizenship and position appropriate security clearance is required. (e.g. Active TS/SCI security clearance with customer appropriate polygraph).
Primary Responsibilities
• Perform internal and external pentests against systems to determine vulnerabilities and develop mitigation strategies.
• Perform web app pentests.
• Perform vulnerability risk assessments.
• Perform physical pentests and social engineering analysis.
• Perform cyber incident response as needed.
• Evaluate the impact of new development on the operational security posture of IT systems.
• Evaluate, review, and test critical software.
• Formulate security compliance requirements for new system features.
• Identify and remediate security issues throughout the system.
• Audit and assess system security configuration settings using common methodologies and tools.
• Work with development teams to enrich team-wide understanding of different types of vulnerabilities, attack vectors, and remediation approaches.
• Work closely with System Engineering, Test Engineering, and Integration teams to ensure hardware and software architecture and implementations meet strict security requirements.
• Propose, assess, coordinate, implement, and enforce information systems security policies, standards, and methodologies.
• Serve as a Subject Matter Expert in security architecture, to include providing advice to Program Managers, Customer technical experts, and internal program teams.
Basic Qualifications
• Must have experience with penetration testing tools.
• Must have experience in web development and programming languages such as Java, XML, Perl and HTML.
• Must have experience with programming/scripting in Python, Powershell, C, JavaScript, etc.
• Must have extensive experience performing IT security risk assessments.
• Must have experience performing web app and physical pentests.
• Must have experience with or strong familiarity of the following Web Application tools;
Burp Suite, Web Inspect, App detective.
• Must have experience with or strong familiarity of Kali.
• Must have experience with or strong familiarity of IPS/IDS solutions.
• Must have a strong understanding of the Cyber Kill Chain methodology.
• Must have experience applying Risk Management Framework.
• Must have experience with secure configurations of commonly used desktop and server operating systems.
• Must have the ability to effectively collaborate with technical staff and customers to form mitigation strategies and plan for continuous modernization and legacy integration.
• Must have experience managing multiple projects simultaneously and quickly and effectively adjusting to shifting priorities in resolving issues.
Preferred Qualifications
• Bachelor’s degree in a technical/information assurance field and at least 12 years of relevant experience.
• Certifications in one or more of the following areas strongly preferred:
• GIAC Web…

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