Red Team Consultant

Job Description

Job Description The Role: You thrive and enjoy working in a fast paced environment, surrounded by brilliant and like-minded people. You walk into the office every day with a passion to learn more and a desire to succeed. You derive great satisfaction from delighting customers, have strong attention to detail and exude excellence. A successful Red Team consultant at Mandiant should possess a deep understanding of both information security and computer science. They should understand basic concepts such as networking, applications, and operating system functionality and be able to learn advanced concepts such as application manipulation, exploit development, and stealthy operations. This is not a press the pwn button type of job; this career is technical and challenging with opportunities to work in some of the most exciting areas of security consulting on extremely technical and challenging work. A typical job could be breaking into a segmented secure zone at a Fortune 500 bank, reverse engineering an application and encryption method in order to gain access to sensitive data, all without being detected. If you can exploit at scale while remaining stealthy, identify and exploit misconfigurations in network infrastructure, parse various types of output data, present relevant data in a digestible manner, think well outside the box, or are astute enough to quickly learn these skills, then you re the type of consultant we re looking for. At Mandiant, you ll be faced with complex problem solving opportunities and hands-on testing opportunities on a daily basis. We help our clients protect their most sensitive and valuable data through comprehensive and real world scenario testing. The objective doesn t end at gaining domain admin or root ; this is expected and is only a starting point. You are expected to quickly assimilate new information as you will face new client environments on a weekly or monthly basis. You will be expected to understand all the threat vectors to each environment and properly assess them. You will get to work with some of the best red teamers in the industry, causing you to develop new skills as you progress through your career. Are you up to the challenge Responsibilities: Perform red/ purple team assessments, external/ internal/ wireless network penetration, web and mobile application testing, source code reviews, network security architecture reviews, threat analysis and social-engineering assessments. Interface with clients to address concerns, issues or escalations; track and drive to closure any issues that impact the service and its value to clients Develop comprehensive and accurate reports and presentations for both technical and executive audiences Oversee and manage implementation improvements to Mandiant s business processes, methodologies, tools and client communication methods Provide expert experience building information security programs to include hands-on implementation and/ or assessment of security controls Use formal project management skills in planning, tracking, and reporting on project progress Manage relationships with local Sales leadership, including identifying opportunities, driving new business through established contacts and using technical acumen to assist the local delivery team Qualifications Requirements: Bachelor s degree in a technical discipline (or equivalent work experience) Minimum of 10 years of relevant hi-tech experience, preferably in an organization with a strong Consulting presence Consistently able to demonstrate strong Consulting knowledge and able to articulate value proposition Proven experience working with local Sales leadership & external contacts to drive Consulting revenue generation Prior interaction with C-level executives Some prior experience delivering work on customer engagements is preferable Experience in at least three of the following : Network penetration testing and manipulation of network infrastructure Mobile and/ or web application assessments Email, phone, or physical social-engineering assessments Shell scripting or automation of simple tasks using Perl, Python, or Ruby Developing, extending, or modifying exploits, shellcode or exploit tools Developing applications in C#, ASP, . NET, ObjectiveC, Go, or Java (J2EE) Reverse engineering malware, data obfuscators, or ciphers Source code review for control flow and security flaws Strong knowledge of tools used for wireless, web application, and network security testing Thorough understanding of network protocols, data on the wire, and covert channels Mastery of Unix/ Linux/ Mac/ Windows operating systems, including bash and Powershell Additional Information Ability to successfully interface with clients (internal and external) Ability to document and explain technical details in a concise, understandable manner Ability to manage and balance own time among multiple tasks, and lead junior staff when required,

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