Senior Consultant - Offensive Security
Senior Consultant - Offensive Security
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Job Description
Your Career
The Senior Consultant on the Offensive Security team is focused on assessing and challenging the security posture across a comprehensive portfolio of clients. The individual will utilize a variety of tools developed and act as a key team member in client engagements. They will be the clients advocate for cybersecurity best practices and will provide recommendations in this domain.
Your Impact
- Conducts periodic scans of networks to find and detect vulnerabilities
- Performs client penetration testing to find any vulnerabilities or weaknesses that might be exploited by a malicious party using opensource custom and commercial testing tools
- Ability to assist in scoping engagements by clearly articulating various penetration approaches and methodologies to audiences ranging from highly technical to executive personnel
- Report generation that clearly communicates testing and assessment details results and remediation recommendations to clients
- Develop scripts tools and methodologies to automate and streamline internal processes and engagements
- Conducts IT application testing cybersecurity tool and systems analysis system and network administration and systems engineering support for the sustainment of information technology systems (mobile application testing penetration testing application security and hardware testing)
- Conduct threat hunting and/or compromise assessment engagements to identify active or dormant indicators of compromise (IoCs) using Crypsis and Palo Alto Networks threat hunting tools (and/or client owned hunting instrumentation where applicable)
- Conduct cloud penetration testing engagements to assess specific workloads (i.e. AWS GCP Azure containers or other PaaS and SaaS instances) for vulnerabilities and subsequently attempt to exploit identified weakness after receiving permission from client stakeholders
- Provide recommendations to clients on specific security measures to monitor and protect sensitive data and systems from infiltration and cyberattacks including response and recovery of a data security breach
- Ability to perform travel requirements as needed to meet business demands
Qualifications :
Your Experience
- 5 years of professional experience with risk assessment tools technologies and methods focused on Information Assurance Information Systems/Network Security Infrastructure Design and Vulnerabilities Assessments
- Demonstrate a deep understanding of how malicious software works (i.e.malware trojans rootkits etc.)
- Ability to modify known and/or craft custom exploits manually without dependence on consumer tools such as Metasploit
- Knowledge of tools and techniques used to conduct network wireless and web application penetration testing
- Familiarity with web application penetration testing and code auditing to find security gaps and vulnerabilities
- Knowledge and experience in conducting cyber risk assessments using industry standards
- Experience with penetration testing administering and troubleshooting major flavors of Linux Windows and major cloud IaaS PaaS and SaaS providers (i.e. AWS GCP and Azure)
- Experience with security assessment tools
- Knowledge of network vulnerability assessments web and cloud application security testing network penetration testing red teaming security operations or hunt
- Knowledge of computer forensic tools technologies and methods
- Assist in the development of internal infrastructure design for research development and testing focused on offensive security
- Identified ability to grow into a valuable contributor to the practice
- Bachelors Degree in Information Security Computer Science Digital Forensics Cyber Security or equivalent years of professional experience to meet job requirements and expectations or equivalent military experience required
Additional Information :
The Team
Unit 42 Consulting is Palo Alto Networks security advisory team. Our vision is to create a more secure digital world by providing the highest quality incident response risk management and digital forensic services to clients of all sizes. Our team is composed of recognized experts and incident responders with deep technical expertise and experience in investigations data breach response digital forensics and information security. With a highly successful track record of delivering missioncritical cybersecurity solutions we are experienced in working quickly to provide an effective incident response attack readiness and remediation plans with a focus on providing longterm support to improve our clients security posture.
Our Commitment
Were problem solvers that take risks and challenge cybersecuritys status quo. Its simple: we cant accomplish our mission without diverse teams innovating together.
We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for all qualified individuals with a disability. If you require assistance or accommodation due to a disability or special need please contact us at .
Palo Alto Networks is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity in our workplace and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age ancestry color family or medical care leave gender identity or expression genetic information marital status medical condition national origin physical or mental disability political affiliation protected veteran status race religion sex (including pregnancy) sexual orientation or other legally protected characteristics.
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
Remote Work :
Yes
Employment Type :
Fulltime
Employment Type
Remote
Company Industry
Key Skills
- ISO 27001
- Ruby
- Risk Management
- Node.js
- PCI
- NIST Standards
- Salt
- Ansible
- Information Security
- Chef
- Puppet
- Siem
