Penetration Tester Job Listing at SAIC in Austin, TX (Job ID 2504731-3472)

Description

Description

As a Penetration Tester, you will play a crucial role in proactively discovering vulnerabilities in systems and on the Department of Veterans Affairs networks. Your primary focus is completing time-based penetration tests to support the Authority to Operate (ATO) approval process for System Owners.

 

Duties:

• Perform penetration testing against various systems, which may include web applications, databases, web services, network devices, operating systems, cloud installations, and infrastructure (hardware) devices
• Utilize a variety of industry standard security tools to conduct manual-based security assessments
• Utilize a variety of industry standard security tools to conduct automated scans against systems
• Review new vulnerabilities as they are published and develop impact assessments
• Determine risk from vulnerabilities based on availability of exploit and potential loss of information and IT services capabilities
• Produce periodic trending and impact reports as required
• Generate reports (automated and manual) based on results from assessments and have the ability to explain in detail to customers
• Develop new testing techniques and programs to support the Penetration testing team
• Manage and maintain hardware and software an ability to provide infrastructure maintenance support to attack systems
• Knowledge and experience with processes and procedures relating to information gathering, threat modeling, vulnerability analysis, exploitation, post-exploitation, and reporting

Qualifications

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree (4 years of additional relevant experience may be substituted for education)
• 5+ years of experience in the IT functions like network administration, engineering, or security
• 1+ year of experience supporting offensive cybersecurity roles
• Must have Penetration Testing certification 

Experience with the following:

• Support Windows, Unix, and Linux operating systems
• VMWare
• Kali Linux Suite
• Nessus Scanner (Tenable)
• RedHat Enterprise Linux
• NMAP
• Ability to conduct scripting in bash and powershell

Preferred Certifications:

• OSCP
• PNPT
• Pentest+
• CISSP
• C|EH

SAIC accepts applications on an ongoing basis and there is no deadline.

Covid Policy: SAIC does not require COVID-19 vaccinations or boosters. Customer site vaccination requirements must be followed when work is performed at a customer site.

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