Senior Offensive Security Engineer - Red Teamer

Job Description:

Senior Offensive Security Engineer - Red Teamer Summary:

Signature Consultants is seeking a Senior Offensive Security Engineer for an opportunity in Lexington< MA. The Senior Offensive Security Engineer will play a critical role in identifying vulnerability, weakness and flaws in highly complex, large scale and extremely protected platform. He or she’s main objective will be to break the system by white hacking and offensive contributions. You will be given full autonomy to hack what is considered to be a highly defended estate. In this role the Engineer will collaborate extensively with engineering, technical operations and product teams by communicating the identification of back doors and providing pivotal input in reverse engineering systems, architecture and platforms.

Requirements:

• Proven penetration testing abilities, especially in an enterprise environment. These will include the ability to use automated pen-testing tools as well as carry out manual pen testing
• Ability to pen-test and review web application, source code, operating system, and network security architectures; finding vulnerabilities and defining effective strategies for remediation and hardening
• Offensive/Red-team experience
• Proven ability to program and script in a variety of programming/scripting languages, but extensive Java knowledge and experience is essential as you will be doing manual code review of (primarily) Java code for security issues
• In-depth knowledge of Linux administration and tools (familiarity with Windows is also useful)
• Excellent team-working skills and a "can do, let's get it done" attitude is crucial

Desirable Skills:

• Ability to design and execute automated penetration testing modules to detect vulnerabilities during build time, coming up with innovative ways to integrate security into the SDLC
• Threat modelling experience
• Reverse Engineering and Malware research experience
• Forensic Experience
• A degree in computing with a strong security element (a Masters or PhD is even better, but not essential)
• Having ethical hacking certifications such as OSCP, CEH or CREST will be very desirable

About Signature Consultants, LLC

Headquartered in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Signature Consultants was established in 1997 with a singular focus: to provide clients and consultants with superior staffing solutions. For the eighth consecutive year, Signature was voted as one of the “Best Staffing Firms to Work For” and is now the 14th largest IT staffing firm in the United States (source: Staffing Industry Analysts). With 26 locations throughout North America, Signature annually deploys thousands of consultants to support, run, and manage their clients’ technology needs. Signature offers IT staffing, consulting, managed solutions, and direct placement services. For more information on the company, please visit www.sigconsult.com.