[Remote] Principal Application Security Consultant

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Pellera Technologies is hiring a Principal Application Security Consultant to deliver red team projects and technical testing for clients. The role focuses on testing client applications and controls, assessing threats and security findings, and recommending practical remediation to help clients reduce risk.

Responsibilities

• Business focused technical testing – apply advanced technical methods to test, prove and validate technical controls within client applications
• Conduct technical assessments of client web applications, API’s, mobile applications, and AI enabled applications
• Perform threat analysis, including identifying critical organization assets and services, relevant threat actors, and likely threat events
• Perform pre-assessment research and preparation including reconnaissance, documentation and customer interviews
• Document security weaknesses, including steps to reproduce
• Analyze security findings, including risk analysis and root cause analysis
• Research and propose practical remediation

Skills

• Ethical and Critical Thinking
• Apply industry standards and best practices including the OWASP Application Security Verification Standard (ASVS), various OWASP Top 10's, Open-Source Security Testing * Methodology Manual (OSSTMM), and the MITRE Adversarial Tactics, Techniques, and Common Knowledge (ATT&CK) Framework
• Involvement in security-related projects / communities including CTFs
• Analytic sharpness in thinking like a threat actor or attacker
• Be authentic, trustworthy, straightforward, and honest
• Have a client-first mindset and the ability to interact professionally with customers
• Possess a blue-collar work ethic with the willingness to wear many proverbial ‘hats' and have a flexible outlook towards your work
• Be competitive and have a performance-based drive to succeed, including self-sufficiency and the ability to work as part of a team
• OSWE certification or equivalent advanced level certs are required
• Excellent report writing and consultative skills
• Experienced penetration tester and vulnerability assessor
• * Ability to conduct network-layer penetration tests of external and internal client networks
• Knowledge of common Active Directory attacks, adversary-in-the-middle attacks, and relay based attacks common in Windows-based networks
• Experience with password-spraying and password cracking
• Obfuscation/Encoding designed to bypass or defeat various controls or countermeasures
• Experience bypassing common security technologies such as advanced EDR solutions
• Conducting social engineering exercises with adherence to a defined Rules of Engagement document
• Experience conducting wireless penetration tests against modern wireless networks
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, or equivalent preferred
• Other Offensive Security certifications are a plus
• Network testing skills are a plus

Benefits

• Remote in the Contiguous US

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