Application Security Consultant

Position Title: Application Security Consultant, Professional Services
Position Location: Remote in the Contiguous US
Job Summary:
The Application Security Consultant delivers on a variety of red team projects and techniques with a focus on business outcomes and helping our clients reduce risk through technical testing. Professional services tasks will include working with diverse Fortune 1000 clients to fully test their environments.
Essential Functions:

• 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.

Required Skills/Abilities/Competencies:

• 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-su?ciency and the ability to work as part of a team.

Preferred Additional Skills/Abilities/Competencies

• 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.

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, or equivalent preferred.
• OSWE certification or equivalent advanced level certs are required.
• Other O?ensive Security certifications are a plus.
• Network testing skills are a plus.
• Excellent report writing and consultative skills.
• Experienced penetration tester and vulnerability assessor

Physical Requirements:

• Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer.
• Must be able to lift up to 15 pounds at times.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
Employees hired under this position must be able to perform the essential functions of the position satisfactorily and, if requested, reasonable accommodation will be made to enable employees with disabilities to perform the essential functions, absent undue hardship. The Employer retains the right to change or assign other duties to this position at any time with or without notice.