Senior Consultant, Network Security

Coalfire

20h•$115,000 - $176,000•Hybrid

About The Position

The Senior Consultant works closely with Project Managers, Delivery Directors, and other Delivery team members to lead engagements, assessing the security of various types of client applications and supporting infrastructure against security best practices. The Senior Consultant is a technical leader with broad and deep technical skills, meeting the objectives of their engagements, collaborating with clients, mentoring teammates, and providing subject matter expertise across one or more technical domains. The Senior Consultant is a trusted advisor to clients, and through objective testing and results reporting, supports the client in making well-informed, risk-based decisions to improve overall security posture.

Requirements

Network penetration testing and assessment tradecraft and methodologies
Strong working knowledge of at least one programming or scripting languages
Strong understanding of security principles and industry best practices.
Minimum of 5 years’ experience in a consulting/professional services role
Minimum of 5 years’ experience in Network Security
Excellent consulting skills including: Time management, performing adjacent tasks while ensuring on-time delivery, escalating issues as needed
Verbal communication, leading client calls for project kickoffs and debrief
Written communication
Report writing, for both executive audiences and technical staff.
Expert proficiency in Network Penetration Testing, including internal network testing and exploiting Active Directory vulnerabilities
Excellent overall technical skills, with strong expertise in at least one of the following: Social Engineering (both vishing & phishing), Physical Penetration Testing, Mobile Application Penetration Testing, Thick Application Penetration Testing, Hardware Penetration Testing, Secure Code Review, Container Penetration Testing, Cloud Penetration Testing, Network Active Directory Penetration Testing, AI Penetration Testing

Nice To Haves

OSCP, OSCE, OSEE offensive security certifications
Significant development and engineering backgrounds
Cloud Service penetration testing tradecraft and methodologies across multiple service providers (e.g. AWS, GCP, etc.).
Mobile platform and application penetration testing tradecraft and methodologies across both iOS and Android.
Red/Purple Team tradecraft and methodologies.
Social engineering in all its forms.
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional, AWS Certified Security, AWS Certified Advanced Networking, AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Network, Database, System administration experience and certifications

Responsibilities

Perform penetration testing on networks, with a focus on internal networks and exploiting Active Directory vulnerabilities
Dynamically flex your skills when assessing emerging or custom technologies.
Lead complex engagements to provide a technical consistency approach across multiple tests.
Contextualize vulnerabilities and assess realistic impact to a client accounting for mitigating and aggravating factors.
Manage priorities and tasks to achieve utilization targets.
Operate with professionalism both internally and with clients.
Ensure quality reports and services are delivered efficiently and on time.
Support sales and business growth by scoping out potential opportunities.
Maintains strong depth of knowledge in the practice area.
Collaborate with project managers, quality management, sales and other delivery team members to drive customer satisfaction and meet project deliverables.