Senior Penetration Tester
Sterling, VA
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FWG Solutions, Inc.
The Senior Penetration Tester will aid our federal customer in providing cybersecurity engineering for our nation’s national security posture. As a key member of that team this position will contribute to the engineering of current and emerging cybersecurity systems, policies, and processes to enforce standards and identify vulnerabilities and capability gaps and reduce cybersecurity risk of our customer networks.
(Hiring for this position will be ongoing to build pipeline)
Essential Duties & Responsibilities:· Helps provide systems and security engineering and integration to support specific government-sponsored projects, pilots, and prototypes· Provides and supports solution planning and engineering, defining security requirements, target architecture, interoperability and integration, system testing, Verification and Validation, Modeling and Simulation, studies and analysis, post-deployment security validation (PDSV), and project risk management· Contributes to the engineering of current and emerging cybersecurity systems, policies, and processes to enforce standards and identify vulnerabilities and capability gaps and reduce cybersecurity risk of our customer networks· Enforces standards and identifies vulnerabilities and capability gaps· Reduces cybersecurity risk of customer networks· Provides expertise in cybersecurity engineering· Other duties as related to the business functions of FWG Solutions, as assigned
Requirements & Qualifications: Education:· Bachelor’s degree in a related field preferred
Licenses & Certifications:· Current Secret clearance required· Licensed Penetration Tester (LPT) Master· Offensive Security Certified Professional (OSCP)· Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH)· IACRB Certified Expert Penetration Tester (CEPT)· IACRB Certified Expert Penetration Tester (CPT)· Certified Red Team Operations Professional (CRTOP)· CompTIA’s PenTest+· GIAC Exploit Researcher and Advanced Penetration Tester (GXPN); and/or· GIAC Penetration Tester (GPEN)
Experience:· Minimum of 2 years’ experience with HP Fortify and/or Checkmarx· Minimum of 2 years’ experience performing source code analysis· Required experience in Red Team (preferable) or Blue Team penetration testing· Minimum three years within LINUX environment required· Engineering management experience · Required experience in: Kali Linux + custom made tools/fuzzing, Metasploit, Burpsuite, Nmap, Wireshark, Jenkins/CloudBees, GitHub, Artifactory, JIRA, Burp Suite Pro, Tenable Security Center, Nessus, Twistlock, Acunetix, Visual Studio, Eclipse, PyCharm, Core Impact· Knowledge and extensive experience in networking, systems management, programming and tool development, the UNIX (different variants) operating system, the Microsoft Windows (different variants) operating system, security analyst tools and techniques, and system design and architecture
Skills & Abilities:· Excellent written and verbal communication skills· High level of organizational and problem-solving skills· Strong leadership/management skills· Superior organizational skills, attention to detail, and ability to prioritize and manage multiple tasks.· Proficiency in Microsoft products
Other Requirements:· US Citizenship required to meet contract and government clearance requirements· Must reside in Sterling, VA or Rockville, MD This opportunity offers career development and growth, competitive compensation, and a robust benefits package with 4 Weeks PTO w/ rollover, 11 paid holidays, company paid events and training, and 401(k) retirement plan with company match. FWG holds multiple government contracting vehicles as a Prime Contractor to include: 8(a) Set-Aside; STARS III; GSA IT-70; Army ITES-3S; and CIO-SP3. FWG Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, national origin, sex/gender, pregnancy, religion, age, marital status, sexual orientation, military/veteran status, disability, genetic information/history or any other personal characteristic protected by law. FWG welcomes all individuals with disabilities and protected veterans to apply for our jobs.
* Salary range is an estimate based on our InfoSec / Cybersecurity Salary Index 💰
Tags: Blue team Burp Suite CEH Checkmarx Clearance Clearance Required Code analysis CompTIA Core Impact DoD Exploit GIAC GitHub GPEN GXPN ISO 27001 Jira Kali Linux Metasploit Nessus Nmap Offensive security OSCP Pentesting Red team Risk management Twistlock UNIX Vulnerabilities Windows
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