Penetration Tester

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