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The Sophos Red Team is engaged by organizations worldwide to identify and exploit vulnerabilities within client environments, applying information security threat intelligence to uncover the same weaknesses real-world adversaries would target.\nAs a Senior Penetration Testing Analyst 1, you will act as the point of contact for testing readiness, coordinating tasks, timelines, and communication between business, client, and project teams. Responsible for escalating issues to management and taking ownership of new challenges to add value. In addition to test readiness support, the position will focus on either application security (web application penetration testing, mobile, API testing) or network security (vulnerability assessments, external penetration tests, internal penetration tests, etc.), using both off-the-shelf and internally developed tools to execute manual testing for advanced attacks. Candidates are not expected to be experienced in both focus areas, although that would be a plus.\nIn this role, you will be responsible for test readiness activities to ensure engagements are ready to begin by troubleshooting client readiness problems, communicating with clients and tracking readiness status, and producing professional security assessment reports detailing vulnerability and exploit information for clients. This position will lead client-facing calls throughout each engagement, from test readiness and troubleshooting, project kick-off through notification of high and critical findings to a close-out review of test findings, evidence, process steps to reproduce, and remediation recommendations.\nThe ideal candidate for this role will bring strong technical communication skills, sound analytical and problem-solving abilities, and a proactive approach to researching new threats, vulnerabilities, and exploits.\nYou will excel as both a self-directed individual contributor and as a member of a larger team, performing other essential duties as assigned.\nWhat you will do\n\nThis is a remote position with potential travel up to 10%\nCoordinate activities, documentation, readiness schedules, and information between business, clients, and project teams.\nAct as the point of contact and communicate testing readiness status adequately to all participants\nUse project management tools to monitor key tasks, responsible parties, timelines, and status\nReport and escalate issues to management as needed\nTake ownership for accomplishing new and different requests; exploring opportunities to add value to job accomplishments.\nConduct application security assessments (web, mobile, API, etc.) using off-the-shelf or internally developed exploitation tools to execute manual testing for advanced attacks OR network penetration testing assessments (external pen test, internal pen test, etc.)\nProduce and deliver vulnerability and exploit information to clients in the form of a professional security assessment report\nConduct client conference calls, including but not limited to test readiness and troubleshooting calls, project kick-off calls, notification of high/critical findings during the testing process, and close-out calls to review test findings, evidence, process steps to reproduce, and remediation recommendations\nPerform proactive research to identify and understand new threats, vulnerabilities, and exploits\nConduct exploitation testing using off-the-shelf or self-developed exploitation tools and document findings for client remediation\nExcel as both a self-directed individual contributor and as a member of a larger team\nWhat you will bring\n5+ years of experience in Information Security\nExcellent client-facing and internal communication skills, both written and verbal\nDemonstrate ability to learn quickly and thrive in high-energy team environment\nProfessional, “get it done\" attitude, work ethic, and strong team player\nSolid organizational skills including attention to detail and multitasking skills\nMinimum of 2 years of experience with penetration testing\nMinimum of 2 years of experience with at least one of the following: Nmap, Metasploit, Kali Linux, Burp Suite\nExperience with NMap Scanning\nUnderstanding of web application authentication methods\nUnderstanding of API’s\nUnderstanding SOAPUI/Restlet and other tools for testing API’s\nUnderstanding of API Authentication Methods\nExperience with Linux\nUnderstanding of networking and appliances (routers, load balancers, firewalls, WAF, IDS/IPS, web content filter/proxy)\nUnderstanding of tools to validate network access with a penetration testing platform\nDesirable:\nOffensive certifications such as CEH, WAPT, GPEN, GWAPT, GAWN, OSCP, etc.\nKnowledge of NetSparker and AppScan; 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