Sr. IoT Consultant - Attack & Penetration | Remote, USA

This position will be fully remote and can be hired anywhere in the continental U.S.

An Attack & Penetration Senior IoT Consultant is a highly skilled penetration tester proficient in both technical and soft skills, capable of performing complex IoT assessments and developing/adapting emerging TTP’s while maintaining a business focus and meeting client requirements. This position will work both independently, part of a team, and as team lead to perform Security Assessments including Product/IoT assessments, vulnerability assessments, penetration tests, wireless security assessments, and social engineering. An Attack & Penetration Senior Consultant also contributes to developing and continuously improving the Security Assessment practice through various industry contributions and leading team initiatives (e.g., tool development, conference presentations, and blog posts).

What we’re looking for:

• Three (3) years of experience performing Product/IoT Assessments, Penetration Tests, Wireless Security Assessments and/or Social Engineering to enterprise-level organizations.

• Three (3) years of experience in a consulting services role, or related information security positions.

• Ability to travel around 25% of the time to client sites.

• Certifications such as OSEE, OSEP, OSCP, OSCE, OSEE, CREST CRT, GIAC (GXPN, GWAPT, GPEN, GMOB) others are highly desired.

• Bachelor’s Degree from a four-year college or university in Information Assurance, Computer Science, Management Information Systems, or related area of study; or related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience strongly preferred.

Demonstrated ability to deliver projects using well-defined methodology across various security assessment disciplines including:

• Familiarity with common IoT testing techniques, including interacting with low-level communications (UART, JTAG), firmware extraction and analysis, ethernet/wireless man-in-the-middle, and operating system testing techniques required.

• Familiarity with web application testing techniques, wireless communication protocols (Bluetooth, Zigbee, LoRa), reverse engineering (Ghidra/IDA Pro), and software defined radio (SDR) preferred.

• Passion for creating tools and automation to make common tasks more efficient preferred.

• Knowledge of programming and scripting for development of security tools preferred.

• Ability to combine multiple separate findings to execute complex attacks.

• Ability to manually validate vulnerabilities identified during assessments.

• Ability to identify, describe and report vulnerabilities and standard remediation activities, to include clear demonstration of risk to clients through post-exploitation activities required.

• Familiarity with many different network architectures, network services, system types, network devices, development platforms and software suites required (e.g., Linux, Windows, Cisco, Oracle, Active Directory, JBoss, .NET, etc.) required.

• Motivation to contribute to the infosec community (speaking, publishing, tooling/research) preferred.

• Demonstrated ability to create comprehensive assessment reports required.

• Must be able to work well with customers and self-manage through difficult situations, focus on client satisfaction.

• Ability to convey complex technical security concepts to technical and non-technical audiences including executives required.

• Ability to lead and mentor others; willingness to collaborate and share knowledge with team members required.

• Proven ability to review and revise reports written by peers required.

• Demonstrated effective time management skills, ability to balance multiple projects simultaneously and the ability to take on large and complex projects with little or no supervision required.

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What you can expect from Optiv

• A company committed to championing Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion through our Employee Resource Groups.
• Work/life balance
• Professional training resources
• Creative problem-solving and the ability to tackle unique, complex projects
• Volunteer Opportunities. “Optiv Chips In” encourages employees to volunteer and engage with their teams and