Application Offensive Security Consultant

Right Hire Consulting LLC; Jersey City (NJ); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Right Hire Consulting LLC is seeking an Application Offensive Security Consultant to lead security testing of applications and adversarial engagements. You will provide SME guidance, perform red team activities, and produce detailed remediation-focused reports for key projects.

This hybrid role requires hands-on testing, reporting, and collaboration with security architects and product teams to strengthen defense postures.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 6 years of experience in application security testing.
• Minimum of 4 years of experience in conducting red teaming engagements.
• Minimum of 4 years of experience with Burp Suite Pro & OWASP ZAP.
• Ability to test manually and live off of the land strategies.
• Ability to explain vulnerabilities and weaknesses in OWASP Top 10 and SANS Top 25 to any audience.
• Understanding of MITRE Framework and adversarial methodologies.
• Certified in OSCP or GWAPT or related offensive security/red teaming certification.

Responsibilities

• Perform red teaming against applications and APIs.
• Perform application threat hunting to evaluate risk to applications.
• Perform manual security testing of applications.
• Provide vulnerability information in predefined report format after testing.
• Generate reports on assessment findings and summarize for remediation.
• Be a subject matter expert and respond to security engineering questions related to Application Defense enhancements.
• Collaborate with Security Architects, Product Manager, Risk Managers, and other teams to deliver high quality product.

Skills

Application security testing

Red teaming

Explain OWASP Top 10 & SANS Top 25

Adversarial methodologies

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Burp Suite Pro

OWASP ZAP

Job description

Application Offensive Security Consultant

About the job Application Offensive Security Consultant

Being a member of the Application Security team, you will be part of the Technology Risk initiative to support offensive security assessments on applications and provide SME guidance to key projects.

The Application Offensive Security Consultant is responsible for providing technical direction and performing security assessment on applications. The person in this role should possess good understanding of application security testing, red team / adversarial engagements, and penetration testing and related development expertise to guide project initiatives to ensure security best practices are being used.

*This is a hybrid role requiring 3 days a week onsite*

Your Primary Responsibilities:

• Perform red teaming against applications and APIs.?
• Perform application threat hunting to evaluate risk to applications.
• Perform manual (non-automated) security testing of applications.
• Provide the vulnerability information in the predefined report format after performing the testing using manual methodology and tools
• Generate reports on assessment findings and summarizes to facilitate remediation, document technical issues identified during security assessments
• Be a subject matter expert and respond to any security engineering questions/ requests related to Application Defense enhancements
• Collaborate with Security Architects, Product Manager, Risk Managers, and other teams to deliver high quality product.
• ** Note: Responsibilities of this role are not limited to the details above**

Talents needed for Success:

• Minimum of 6 years of related experience
• Bachelors Degree and/or equivalent experience

Talents needed for Success:

• Minimum of 6 years of experience in application security testing
• Minimum of 4 years of experience in conducting red teaming engagements
• Minimum of 4 years of experience in application security testing tools such as Burp Suite Professional & Owasp Zap
• Ability to test manually and live off of the land strategies
• Ability to explain vulnerabilities and weaknesses in OWASP Top 10 and SANS Top 25 to any audience and discuss effective defensive techniques
• Understanding of MITRE Framework and adversarial methodologies
• Ability to bypass controls and/or test countermeasures for misconfigurations
• Ability to work under pressure, multitask and be flexible
• Certified in OSCP or GWAPT or related offensive security/red teaming certification
• *This is not a penetration testing role. It goes beyond the scope of a traditional pen test*