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Penetration Testing Lead

extra holidays

Remote:

Full Remote

Contract:

Full time

Experience:

Expert & Leadership (>10 years)

Work from:

Florida (USA), United States

Offer summary

Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, IT, or equivalent work experience, 10+ years of experience in Penetration Testing, Red Team, and Purple Team, Advanced knowledge in common penetration testing tools, Understand voice and data networks, operating systems, active directory, and cloud technologies, Familiarity with MITRE's ATT&CK framework and scripting languages.

Key responsabilities:

Conduct internal and external penetration testing and Red Team assessments
Lead in tracking vulnerabilities, triaging tasks, and assigning them
Communicate findings to staff and executives, create findings reports
Collaborate with Blue Team, participate in Purple Team exercises
Travel for testing IoT devices, automate tasks, enhance team methodologies

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2 - 10 Employees

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Job description

Job Description
Our client is seeking a Penetration Testing Lead to join their Special Purpose Team (SPT). The successful candidate will perform penetration testing and vulnerability scanning as directed by management, and lead efforts in logging and tracking discovered vulnerabilities, triaging remediation tasks, and assigning them to system owners. This is primarily a remote position; however, candidates must be local to an office location in one of the following areas:

Herndon, VA
Colorado Springs, CO
Tampa, FL
Ogden, UT
Omaha, NE

Responsibilities

Perform both internal and external penetration testing of network infrastructure and applications
Perform Red Team assessments including physical, social engineering, and network exploitation
Perform well-controlled vulnerability exploitation/penetration testing on applications, network protocols, and databases
Demonstrate advanced understanding of business processes, internal control risk management, IT controls, and related standards
Effectively communicate findings and strategy to stakeholders, including technical staff and executive leadership
Identify and evaluate complex business and technology risks, internal controls which mitigate risks, and related opportunities for internal control improvement
Participate in regular Purple Team exercises and perform adversary simulations to test defense controls
Assist with scoping prospective engagements, leading engagements from kickoff through remediation
Work closely with the Blue Team to test the efficacy of existing alerts and help create new detections
Create findings reports and effectively communicate findings to stakeholders
Contribute to enhancing the team's toolkit
Write custom scripts to automate tasks related to finding new vulnerabilities
Maintain the playbook to continually improve company penetration testing methodologies and threat modeling
Travel to test IoT physical and mobile devices at least 25%

Clearance

U.S. citizen eligible for a Secret

Required Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, IT, or equivalent work experience
10+ years of experience in Penetration Testing, Red Team, and Purple Team
Advanced knowledge in common penetration testing tools (Metasploit, Burp Suite, Cobalt Strike, Empire, KALI Linux etc.)
Demonstrable understanding of voice and data networks, major operating systems, active directory, and cloud technologies
Demonstrated knowledge of MITRE s ATT&CK framework and ability to execute and chain TTPs
Ability to critically examine an organization and system through the perspective of a threat actor and articulate risk in clear and precise terms.
Ability to optimally code in a scripting language (Python, Bash, PowerShell, Rust, C, C++, Golang, etc.)

Desired Qualifications

CRTO, OSCP, or other relevant certifications

Hamdan Resources, LLC is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer (EEO/AA), making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected class. U.S. Citizenship and/or authorization to work within the U.S.is required for most positions.