Job Title: Penetration Tester
Location: Austin TX
Type: Contract
Job Description:
- Analytical thinking, and motivated to learn new things.
- Experience manually testing complex web applications.
- Experience with a scripting language (e.g. perl, python, PHP, ruby) and a programming language (e.g. JAVA, JavaScript, Go).
- Proficiency in either Mac OS X and/or other flavors of UNIX.
- Background in web application development and/or code auditing preferred.
- Strong verbal written communication skills.
- Passion for discovering and researching new vulnerabilities and exploitation techniques. Experience in performing Threat Models and/or security architecture reviews.
- Experience in securing Cloud environments (such as AWS).
- Preferred: Experience participating in CTFs, or security research/bug bounties.
Day to Day Responsibilities
- This security engineer role will involve working closing with engineering teams to implement a secure development lifecycle. Day to day responsibilities include:
- Conduct security architecture reviews of the full stack including applications built on cloud and emerging technologies. Conduct manual application security testing and source code auditing for a variety of technologies. Work closely with engineering teams to provide security guidance to engineers.
- Create proof of concepts to demonstrate impact to engineering teams.
- Create automations and/or security tooling to scale security testing.
Education:
- Preferred: BS in Computer Science or Computer Security
- Preferred: OSCP certification