Senior Penetration Tester

Contribute to leading-edge security and resilience efforts, advancing protective strategies and propelling continuous improvement.

As an Assessments & Exercises Vice President in Penetration Test, you will play a significant role in enhancing our firm's cybersecurity and resiliency posture. You will use industry-standard assessment methodologies and techniques to proactively identify risks and vulnerabilities in our people, processes, and technology. As a key member of our team, you will perform hands-on penetration testing of some of our most critical applications, platforms, and the perimeter. You will collaborate with application developers to understand and mitigate vulnerabilities, and to identify opportunities for early detection in the SDLC.

We are looking for team members who are eager to learn, drive to excel, and have excellent technical knowledge of security concepts and proven expertise in penetration testing.

Job Responsibilities

• Design and execute testing and simulations – such as penetration tests, technical controls assessments, cyber exercises, or resiliency simulations, and contribute to the development and refinement of assessment methodologies, tools, and frameworks to ensure alignment with the firm’s strategy and compliance with regulatory requirements.
• Evaluate controls for effectiveness and impact on operational risk, as well as opportunities to automate control evaluation.
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to develop comprehensive assessment reports – including detailed findings, risk assessments, and remediation recommendations – making data-driven decisions that encourage continuous improvement.
• Utilize threat intelligence and security research to stay informed about emerging threats, vulnerabilities, industry best practices, and regulations. Apply this knowledge to enhance the firm's assessment strategy and risk management. Engage with peers and industry groups that share threat intelligence analytics.

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills

• Experience in conducting manual penetration tests against a wide variety of applications and technologies including web, mobile and thick clients, internal and external facing infrastructures, cloud.
• Foundational knowledge of cybersecurity organization practices, operations, risk management processes, principles, architectural requirements, engineering and threats and vulnerabilities, including incident response methodologies.
• Ability to identify systemic security or resiliency issues as they relate to threats, vulnerabilities, or risks, with a focus on recommendations for enhancements or remediation, and proficiency in multiple security assessment methodologies (e.g., Open Worldwide Application Security Project (OWASP) Top Ten, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Cybersecurity Framework), offensive testing tools, or resiliency testing equivalents.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and report writing skills, with the ability to influence and engage stakeholders across various functions and levels.

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills

• Proficiency in security concepts for both Windows and Unix-like Operating Systems.
• Experience in source code review and/or building software with multiple programming languages (i.e. Python, Java, Rust, etc.).
• Experience in reverse engineering standalone, thick client and mobile applications.
• Certifications like CREST (CRT, CCT), OSCP, OSCE, GXPN, GRE.