Why this role stands out
This Red Team Security Engineer role offers a fantastic opportunity to hone your offensive security skills in a hybrid environment, contributing to critical cybersecurity testing and operations. You'll thrive here if you possess a Top Secret clearance and a passion for mimicking threat behavior, automating security processes, and performing in-depth penetration tests across various environments. Apply today to join a leading cybersecurity firm and advance your career in a dynamic and impactful field.
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Job description
Job Description acuCyber is is hiring a Red Team Security Engineer to work in North Charleston, SC. The candidate must have an active Top Secret clearance.
Required Skills The ideal candidate will
- Provide Cybersecurity Test and Evaluation Support. This effort covers all aspects of Cyber testing to include beginning with planning requirements and concluding providing reports and recommended solutions.
- Demonstrated experience with penetration testing tools and mimicking threat behavior.
- Provide support by utilizing experience in automation using Powershell, PowerAutomate, Logic Apps, Graph API.
- Provide support by utilizing experience conducting Red Team operations in an MDE environment.
- Provide support by utilizing experience with AWS, Cloud Audit, Serverless and Microservice Architecture.
- Provide support utilizing experience working with AWS services (such as EC2, S3, KMS, RDS) and security best practices relevant to those services.
- Provide support by performing web application and API penetration testing, and Cloud Security Audits.
- Provide support by utilizing experience with Web Services penetration testing (RESTful and SOAP) Web Authentication protocols (e.g. OAuth2, SAML, LDAP).
- Providing support by writing proof of concept code to demonstrate the severity of a potential security issues.
- Candidate must have an active Top Secret security clearance.
- In addition to an accredited bachelor's degree within a relevant area, the candidate must have a minimum of 3 years of experience.
- SPECIALIZED experience in Red Teaming, Computer Network Attack (CNA), Computer Network Exploitation (CNE), Computer Network Defense (CND), and/or penetration testing.
- DoD 8140 Certification(s), ideally focused in red teaming/penetration testing.
Desired Skills Ideal candidates will possess or be in pursuit of at least one of the following certification(s):
- Offensive Security Certified Professional (OSCP)
- Offensive Security Certified Expert (OSCE)
- Offensive Security Exploitation Expert (OSEE)
- Offensive Security Exploit Developer (OSED)
- Offensive Security Experienced Pentester (OSEP)
- Offensive Security Wireless Professional (OSWP)
- Offensive Security Web Expert (OSWE)
- Hack The Box Certified Penetration Testing Specialist (HTB CPTS)
- Hack The Box Certified Bug Bounty Hunter (HTB CBBH)
- Certified Red Team Operator (CRTO) from Zero Point Security
- Certified Red Team Lead (CRTL) from Zero Point Security
- Practical Network Penetration Tester (PNPT)
- GIAC Red Team Professional (GRTP)
- GIAC Experienced Penetration Tester (GX-PT)
- GIAC Exploit Researcher and Advanced Penetration Tester (GXPN)
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