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Penetration Tester

IBM

IBM

Quality Assurance
Multiple locations
Posted on Wednesday, August 28, 2024
Introduction
Information and Data are some of the most important organizational assets in today’s businesses. As a Security Consultant, you will be a key advisor for IBM’s clients, analyzing business requirements to design and implement the best security solutions for their needs. You will apply your technical skills to find the balance between enabling and securing the client’s organization with the cognitive solutions that are making IBM the fastest growing enterprise security business in the world.

Your Role and Responsibilities

As a Senior Penetration Tester you will be supporting the mission of a progressive Federal agency. You will perform vulnerability assessments and penetration testing following the customer’s prescribed scope to target, assess, and exploit risk and vulnerabilities of information systems and inform strategic decisions. The successful candidate will be able to conduct hands-on penetration testing, analyze test results and recommend changes and countermeasures to enhance enterprise security.

We were founded as a fresh alternative in the Government Consulting Community and are dedicated to the belief that results are a product of analytical thinking, agile design principles and that solutions are built in collaboration with, not for, our customers. This mantra drives us to succeed and act as true partners in advancing our client’s missions.

This program will support our US Customs and Immigration Services Cyber Security Defense Services Contract that provides support to Security Engineering Branch of Information Security Division (ISD) of USCIS. We protect USCIS’ IT infrastructure and resources, information systems, and the information that is used in these environments from cybersecurity threats.


Required Technical and Professional Expertise

  • Experience with end to end testing, including applying adversarial and computer attack methods and system exploitation techniques.
  • Experience with penetration testing tools such as Nmap, fluff, Metasploit, Kali Linux, Core Impact , Immunity Canvas.
  • Experience applying Linux, Windows, and virtual platforms security principles.
  • Working knowledge of one or more of the following programming languages: Java, PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby, PowerShell ,Go .
  • US Citizen and able to obtain a Government Agency clearance
  • Certifications: Must have ONE of the following active certifications:
  1. Exploit Researcher and Advanced Penetration Tester (GXPN)
  2. Offensive Security Certified Expert (OSCE)
  3. Offensive Security Certified Professional (OSCP), Offensive Security Exploitation Expert (OSEE)


Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

  • Identifying false-positives, documenting system risks, test plans, procedures, and results.
  • Linux, Windows, and virtual platforms security principles.
  • Communicating vulnerability results and risk posture to senior executives.