Description:
The Consultant works closely with Project Managers, Delivery Directors, and other Delivery team members to lead engagements, assessing the security of various types of client applications and supporting infrastructure against security best practices. The Consultant is a technical leader with broad technical skills, meeting the objectives of their engagements, collaborating with clients, mentoring teammates, and providing subject matter expertise across one or more technical domains. The Consultant is a trusted advisor to clients, and through objective testing and results reporting, supports the client in making well-informed, risk-based decisions to improve overall security posture.
What You'll Do
- Working independently and collaboratively with a team to both lead and support
- Perform penetration testing on applications with complex technology stacks from both a: Blackbox & Whitebox perspective
- Dynamically flex your skills when assessing emerging or custom technologies
- Contextualize vulnerabilities and assess realistic impact to a client accounting for mitigating and aggravating factors
- Manage priorities and tasks to achieve utilization targets
- Operate with professionalism both internally and with clients
- Ensure quality reports and services are delivered efficiently and on time
- Maintains strong depth of knowledge in the practice area
- Collaborate with project managers, quality management, sales and other delivery team members to drive customer satisfaction and meet project deliverables
- Up to 10% travel
What You'll Bring
- Application penetration testing and assessment tradecraft and methodologies (including browser-based, API)
- Strong working knowledge of at least two programming or scripting languages
- Strong understanding of security principles and industry best practices
- Minimum of 2 years’ experience in a consulting/professional services role
- Minimum of 2 years’ experience in Application Security and/or Software Development
- Proficiency in Web Application Penetration Testing