Red Team Associate Operator / Penetration Tester

Company

Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond

When you join the Federal Reserve—the nation's central bank—you’ll play a key role, collaborating with leading tech professionals to strengthen and protect our economic, financial and payments systems. We invest in contemporary and emerging technology each year to support the Federal Reserve and our economy, and we’re building a dynamic team for our future.

Bring your passion and expertise, and we’ll provide the opportunities that will challenge you and propel your growth—along with a wide range of benefits and perks that support your health, wealth, and life. In addition to competitive compensation, we offer a comprehensive benefits package that includes tuition assistance, generous paid time off, top-notch health care benefits, child and family care leave, professional development opportunities, a 401(k) match, pension, and more. All brought together in a work environment where you can truly find balance

About the Opportunity  
 Our National Incident Response Team (NIRT), a national service provider for the Federal Reserve System (FRS), delivers effective and efficient national intrusion detection, incident response, security intelligence, threat assessment, and vulnerability assessment services for the FRS. NIRT’s mission is to play a leading role in the FRS’ efforts to protect its information systems against unauthorized use. 
 
NIRT’s Adversary Emulation team has an immediate opening for an Associate Operator to join their team as a key participant on a variety of engagements and projects that will target and evaluate the cyber security posture of people, processes, and technology within the FRS.  
 
As an Associate Operator, you will report to the Sr. Manager and work on a team of security professionals focused on enabling business line initiatives by performing security assessments against people, processes, and technologies by using automated tools and expertise of hands-on tools that simulate attacker tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs). You will also perform assessments for new and existing services, infrastructure, and applications to identify weaknesses before an attacker does. 
 
You will use a variety of tools and techniques including penetration testing, red teaming, purple teaming, and social engineering and have the opportunity to combine your technical expertise with your imagination to discover innovative methods for ensuring that the FRS remains one step ahead of its adversaries around the world. 

 

What You Will Do 

• Strengthen FRS security posture through offensive security assessments where you will perform complex security assessments including the identification and exploitation of vulnerabilities across the system 

• Leverage offensive security foundational knowledge to support in the execution of cybersecurity solutions to benefit security engagements and mitigate cyber threats 

• Improve operational efficiency by building and evaluating workflow processes, procedures, checklists, automation, and tooling 

• Enable success of security initiatives by performing tasks to development surrounding security or technology capabilities and creating operations-based documentation 

• Address cybersecurity needs by advising clients on best practices and how to implement changes to securely address complex business needs