Penetration Tester - Mid
LeidosAbout the role
Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Security Operations Center (SOC) is a US Government program responsible to prevent, identify, contain and eradicate cyber threats to CBP networks through monitoring, intrusion detection and protective security services to CBP information systems including local area networks/wide area networks (LAN/WAN), commercial Internet connection, public facing websites, wireless mobile/cellular, cloud, security devices, servers and workstations. The CBP SOC is responsible for the overall security of CBP Enterprise-wide information systems, and collects, investigates, and reports any suspected and confirmed security violations.
Primary Responsibilities:
Perform internal and external pentest against systems to determine vulnerabilities and offer mitigation strategies.
Perform web app pentests.
Perform vulnerability risk assessment.
Perform physical pentests and social engineering.
Perform cyber incident response as needed for programs
Basic Qualifications:
Bachelors’ degree from an accredited college in a related discipline, or equivalent experience/combined education, with 5 to 8 years of professional experience; or 3 to 5 years of professional experience with a Masters’ degree.
Additional years of experience and certifications may be considered in lieu of a degree.
Must have a Secret Clearance.
In addition to specific security clearance requirements all Department of Homeland Security CBP SOC employees are required to have or be able to favorably pass a 5 year (BI) Background Investigation.
5 years in Pen Testing and Vulnerability Assessment, with specific emphasis on web application and enterprise network environments.
8 years of professional experience in incident detection and response, malware analysis, or cyber forensics.
Specific experience in at least 1 f the following specialties:
Mobile application testing
Cloud infrastructure testing
RF Testing
Mainframe systems
Experience with the majority of the tools listed below:
Kali Linux
Metaspoilt
Burp suite pro
Cobalt Strike / Empire
Tenable Nessus
Debuggers such as Immunity
Bloodhound
BladeRF / HakRF
Hak5 equipment
Wireshark / tcpdump
Certifications: At least one pentesting certification:
CISSP
GISF
GPEN
GWAPT
GXPN
OSCE
OSCP
OSEE
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