Full-Time Senior Offensive Security Consultant
Palo Alto Networks is hiring a remote Full-Time Senior Offensive Security Consultant. The career level for this job opening is Senior Manager and is accepting Santa Clara, CA based applicants remotely. Read complete job description before applying.
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Your CareerThe 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 client’s advocate for cybersecurity best practices and will provide strong recommendations in this domain.
Your Impact
- Assist in development of internal infrastructure design for research, development, and testing focused on offensive security.
- Conducts periodic scans of networks to find and detect vulnerabilities.
- Performs client penetration testing to find vulnerabilities or weaknesses.
- Ability to assist in scoping engagements.
- Report generation that 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.
- Conduct threat hunting and/or compromise assessment engagements.
- Assist Crypsis Leadership in the development of security standards and best practices.
- Able to conduct cyber risk assessments.
- Conduct cloud penetration testing engagements.
- Provide recommendations to clients on specific security measures.
- Ability to perform travel requirements.
Your Experience
- 4+ 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.
- Ability to modify known and/or craft custom exploits.
- Strong knowledge of tools and techniques used to conduct network, wireless, and web application penetration testing.
- Familiarity with web application penetration testing and code auditing.
- Knowledge and experience in conducting cyber risk assessments.
- Experience with penetration testing, administering, and troubleshooting major flavors of Linux, Windows, and major cloud IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS providers.
- Experience with scripting and editing code.
- Experience with security assessment tools.
- Knowledge of application, database, and web server design and implementation.
- Knowledge of network vulnerability assessments, web and cloud application security testing, red teaming, security operations, or ‘hunt’.
- Knowledge of open security testing standards and projects, including OWASP & MITRE ATT&CK.
- Ability to read and use the results of mobile code, malicious code, and anti-virus software.
- Knowledge of computer forensic tools, technologies, and methods.
- Identified ability to grow into a valuable contributor to the practice, external presence, credibility, executive presence, and gravitas.
- Able to have a meaningful and rapid delivery contribution.
- Potential and capacity to understand all aspects of the business and an excellent understanding of PANW products.
- Collaborative and able to build relationships.
- Bachelor’s Degree in Information Security, Computer Science, Digital Forensics, Cyber Security, or equivalent years of professional experience.