Application Offensive Security Consultant - Temp to Perm - Jersey City, NJ - Waterfall Technology Consulting Partners
Jersey City, NJ
About the Job
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Position Overview:
Being a member of the Application Security team, you will be part of the Technology Risk initiative to support offensive security assessments on applications and provide SME guidance to key projects.
The Application Offensive Security Consultant is responsible for providing technical direction and performing security assessment on applications. The person in this role should possess good understanding of application security testing, red team / adversarial engagements, and penetration testing and related development expertise to guide project initiatives to ensure security best practices are being used.
- This is a temp to perm role
- Employer requires 3 days a week onsite
Your Primary Responsibilities:
- Perform red teaming against applications and APIs.?
- Perform application threat hunting to evaluate risk to applications
- Perform manual (non-automated) security testing of applications
- Provide the vulnerability information in the predefined report format after performing the testing using manual methodology and tools
- Generate reports on assessment findings and summarizes to facilitate remediation, document technical issues identified during security assessments
- Be a subject matter expert and respond to any security engineering questions/ requests related to Application Defense enhancements
- Collaborate with Security Architects, Product Manager, Risk Managers, and other teams to deliver high quality product.
- ** Note: Responsibilities of this role are not limited to the details above**
Talents needed for Success:
- Minimum of 6 years of related experience
- Bachelors Degree and/or equivalent experience
Talents needed for Success:
- Minimum of 6 years of experience in application security testing
- Minimum of 4 years of experience in conducting red teaming engagements
- Minimum of 4 years of experience in application security testing tools such as Burp Suite Professional & Owasp Zap
- Ability to test manually and live off of the land strategies
- Ability to explain vulnerabilities and weaknesses in OWASP Top 10 and SANS Top 25 to any audience and discuss effective defensive techniques
- Understanding of MITRE Framework and adversarial methodologies
- Ability to bypass controls and/or test countermeasures for misconfigurations
- Ability to work under pressure, multitask and be flexible
- Certified in OSCP or GWAPT or related offensive security/red teaming certification
- *This is not a penetration testing role. It goes beyond the scope of a traditional pen test*
Focused Skills: Application Security, Red Teaming
Waterfall Technology Consulting Partners LLC (WTCP) is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes candidates from all backgrounds to apply. If you are ready to take the next step in your career, please submit your resume today so that we can provide you with your pay package quote specific to your travel needs!
Pay rate: $65 per hour + You can submit a candidate who requires pay rate higher than 65/hr, however, preference will be given to candidates who are willing to accept 65/hr or less.