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Security Consultant - USA

Roles & Responsibilities

  • Minimum of five years of relevant security experience.
  • Practical experience with cryptography, reverse engineering, or application development.
  • Proficiency with security testing tools like Metasploit, Nmap, Nessus, Burp Suite.
  • Strong analytical skills and ability to work independently under deadlines.

Requirements:

  • Perform high-end security evaluations and research for clients.
  • Investigate logical attack scenarios and develop sophisticated attack techniques.
  • Create tools to support security projects and communicate vulnerabilities to clients.
  • Research new attack vectors and contribute to thought leadership through blogs and presentations.

Job description

Description

The consultant is expected to maintain a high level of expertise regarding known threats and technical advances.

Security Consultants are responsible for performing high-end security evaluations and research. Our consultants work with other team members to deliver high quality results to IOActive’s clients around the world.  This is a Remote position.

What you’ll do:

Our Security Consultants undertake security evaluation projects to meet customer expectations. This includes:

  • Investigate possible logical attack scenarios by interpreting the code review findings, orienting the attack paths, and analyzing the test results
  • Develop sophisticated, state-of-the-art attacks that integrate the latest attack methods against web, networking, devices, etc.
  • Create tools to assist in project goals
  • Communicate complex vulnerabilities to both technical and non-technical client staff
  • Perform research on new attack vectors, discover new vulnerabilities, create new exploitation techniques
  • Evangelize IOActive through blogs, white papers, presentations, etc.

What you bring:

Technical Skills

  • Demonstrated practical/hands-on experience with Cryptography, Application Development and/or Reverse Engineering.
  • Familiar with security testing tools such as Metasploit, Nmap, Nessus, Burp Suite.
  • Vulnerability assessment and penetration testing experience.
  • Experience with some mix of security-related topics such as authentication, entitlements, identity management, data protection, data leakage prevention, validation checking, encryption, hashing, principle of least privilege, software attack methodologies, secure data transfer, secure data storage, etc.
  • Five years or more of relevant work experience in a related security environment.

ProfessionalSkills

  • Ability to work independently under deadline.
  • Rigorous attention to detail and strong analytical skills.
  • Excellent command of written and spoken English to communicate effectively with clients and team members.
  • Comfortable working as part of a multi-national and multi-disciplinary team.
  • Demonstrate a logical and structured approach to projects

Salary Range & Benefits

  • The salary range for this position is $80-120k annually
  • USA benefits package includes PTO, Holiday, Medical, Dental, Vision, 401(k) match, Long and Short Term Disability, Life Insurance, and Employee Assistance Program (EAP), and Business Travel Insurance

Why IOActive:

We have over 20 years of experience that’s established and stable; yet high-growth with the energy, passion and dynamic work environment of a startup.

We are renowned for our innovation and thought leadership within our high-profile, cutting edge space.

We're one of “the good guys” doing crazy cool stuff to thwart bad guys in a critically important business, social and political arena. Our work is great fun with great importance.

Above all else, we value our people and our customers. Relationships matter.

Join us!

IOActive is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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