Job Title: Junior Penetration Tester
Location: Arlington, VA
Terms: Full-time
Requirements: Must be a U.S. Citizen with Active Security Clearance
About the Role
Currently seeking to hire Junior Penetration Tester to join the Red Cell Team. Red Cell is a penetration-testing program that conducts independent testing to ensure appropriate controls and safeguards are in place and function as intended for the Department’s networks, assets and data.
Responsibilities
- Assess the current state of the customer’s system security by identifying all vulnerabilities and security measures.
- Help customer perform analysis and mitigation of security vulnerabilities.
- Perform and report on penetration testing of systems, including cloud, to satisfy the NIST 800-53 CA-8 security control and using methodologies that may include, NIST SP 800-115, Penetration Testing Execution Standard (PTES), and Information Systems Security Assessment Framework (ISSAF).
- Stay abreast of current attack vectors and unique methods for exploitation of computer networks. Provide support to incident response teams through capability enhancement and reporting.
- Assist in maintaining Red Cell infrastructure.
- Develop or modify tools that automate discovery or exploitation (e.g. bash, Python, JavaScript, PowerShell).
Qualifications: Basic Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree and 2 years of related experience. An additional 4 years will be considered in lieu of the degree requirement.
- Basic understanding of networking and security principles.
- Experience with evaluating system security configurations.
- Understand common Web Application vulnerabilities like SQLi, XSS, CSRF, and HTTP Flooding.
- Experience with penetration testing tools such as Metasploit, Burp Suite, Nmap, etc.
- Fundamentals of network routing & switching and assessing network device configurations.
- Familiarity in evaluating findings and performing root cause analysis.
- Demonstrated ability to work alone and/or within a small group.
- Must have ONE of the listed certifications below within 6 months of start date:
- CCNA Cyber Ops, CCNA-Security, CEH, CFR, Cloud+, CySA+, GCIA, GCIH, GICSP, SCYBER.
- An active Secret security clearance.
About us
Cyber Management International Corporation is actively recruiting highly IT Security professionals looking for challenging, exciting work in support of the U.S. Department of State (DOS). Specifically, our customer is the Bureau of Diplomatic Security (DS), Directorate of Cyber and Technology Security (CTS). DS/CTS is a center of excellence that brings together cybersecurity, technology security, and investigative expertise as a unified security capability focused on solving critical and emerging issues enabling the State Department to fulfill its vital global mission.
For more information about our company, please visit www.cybermgt.com or email us at recruiting@cybermgt.com
To apply for this job email your details to gavallask@cybermt.com