Senior Consultant, Offensive Security, Proactive Services …, Maryland

Job Description

Your Career

The 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 any vulnerabilities or weaknesses that might be exploited by a malicious party, using open-source, custom, and commercial testing tools

Ability to assist in scoping engagements by clearly articulating various penetration approaches and methodologies to audiences ranging from highly technical to executive personnel

Report generation that clearly 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 for the sustainment of information technology systems (mobile application testing, penetration testing, application, security, and hardware testing)

Conduct threat hunting and/or compromise assessment engagements to identify active or dormant indicators of compromise (IoCs) using Unit 42 and Palo Alto Networks’ threat hunting tools (and/or client owned hunting instrumentation where applicable)

Assist Unit 42 Leadership in the development of security standards and best practices for the organization and recommend security enhancements as needed

Able to conduct cyber risk assessments using frameworks or standards like NIST CSF, ISO 27001/2, PCI, CIS Top 20, CMMC, or other industry measurement tools

Conduct cloud penetration testing engagements to assess specific workloads (i.e., AWS, GCP, Azure, containers, or other PaaS and SaaS instances) for vulnerabilities and subsequently attempt to exploit identified weakness after receiving permission from client stakeholders

Provide recommendations to clients on specific security measures to monitor and protect sensitive data and systems from infiltration and cyber-attacks including response and recovery of a data security breach

Ability to perform travel requirements as needed to meet business demands (on average 30%)