Principal Consultant – Offensive Security

The Principal Consultant on the Offensive Security team is focused on assessing and challenging the security posture across a comprehensive portfolio of clients. The individual will have experience leading Red & Purple team engagements. They will be the client’s advocate for cybersecurity best practices related to offensive security and will provide strong recommendations in this domain.

Your Impact

• Performs client penetration testing to find any vulnerabilities or weaknesses that might be exploited by a malicious party, using open-source, custom, and commercial testing tools - Red Team experience essential.
• Ability to assist in scoping engagements by clearly articulating various penetration approaches and methodologies to audiences ranging from highly technical to executive personnel.
• Report generation that clearly communicates testing and assessment details, results, and remediation recommendations to clients.
• Develop scripts, tools, and methodologies to automate and streamline internal processes and engagements.
• Conducts periodic scans of networks to find and detect vulnerabilities.
• Conducts IT application testing, cybersecurity tool and systems analysis, system and network administration, and systems engineering support for the sustainment of information technology systems (mobile application testing, penetration testing, application security, and hardware testing).
• Conduct threat hunting and/or compromise assessment engagements to identify active or dormant indicators of compromise (IoCs) using Crypsis and the company’s threat hunting tools.
• Conduct cloud penetration testing engagements to assess specific workloads (i.e., AWS, GCP, Azure, containers, or other PaaS and SaaS instances) for vulnerabilities and subsequently attempt to exploit identified weakness after receiving permission from client stakeholders.
• Provide recommendations to clients on specific security measures to monitor and protect sensitive data and systems from infiltration and cyber-attacks including response and recovery of a data security breach.
• Ability to perform travel requirements as needed to meet business demands.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of professional experience leading Red & Purple team engagements, Advanced Attack Simulations, OSINT research, social engineering techniques, bespoke security assessments, and exploit development.
• Experience testing a range of technologies (Active Directory, major OSs, cloud environments, IoT / OT) and using a range of security tools and technologies including AI-enabled tools to automate and tailor engagements.
• Demonstrate a deep understanding of how malicious software works (i.e., malware, trojans, rootkits).
• Ability to modify known and/or craft custom exploits manually without dependence on consumer tools such as Metasploit.
• Strong knowledge of tools and techniques used to conduct network, wireless, and web application penetration testing.
• Familiarity with web application penetration testing and code auditing to find security gaps and vulnerabilities.
• Experience with penetration testing, administering, and troubleshooting major flavors of Linux, Windows, and major cloud IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS providers (i.e., AWS, GCP, and Azure).
• Experience with scripting and editing existing code and programming using one or more of the following - Perl, Python, Ruby, Bash, C/C++, C#, or Java.
• Experience with security assessment tools, including Nessus, OpenVAS, MobSF Metasploit, Burp Suite Pro, Cobalt Strike, Bloodhound, and Empire.
• Knowledge of application, database, and web server design and implementation.
• Ability to read and use the results of mobile code, malicious code, and anti-virus software.
• Knowledge of computer forensic tools, technologies, and methods.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Security, Computer Science, Digital Forensics, Cyber Security, or equivalent years of professional experience to meet job requirements and expectations, or equivalent military experience required.
• Hold industry-leading certifications from OffSec (OSCE / OSCP / OSWP), CREST, GIAC (SANS), and preferably have published vulnerabilities, conference talks, or thought leadership.

Work Conditions
This role can be hired for Riyadh, Remote, or Dubai Remote.
Role is eligible for Immigration Sponsorship.