Senior Manual Ethical Hacker

Bank of America

Seattle (WA)

On-site

USD 100,000 - 130,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

A multinational financial institution is seeking a Senior Ethical Hacker in Seattle, WA. The role involves conducting security assessments, managing vulnerabilities, and developing proof-of-concepts. Candidates should have at least 5 years of experience in ethical hacking, knowledge in various security protocols, and the ability to perform advanced assessments manually. This position supports a commitment to responsible growth and an inclusive workplace culture.

Qualifications

5+ years of experience in pentesting or ethical hacking.
Detailed knowledge in security engineering and application security.
Ability to simulate OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities manually.

Responsibilities

Perform analysis of internal and external threats on information systems.
Conduct assessments of security effectiveness across various technologies.
Prepare detailed technical information for reports.

Skills

Pentesting

Application Security

Manual Web Application Assessment

Security Engineering

Innovative Thinking

Tools

DAST

SAST

CVE

CWE

Job description

Job Description

At Bank of America, we are guided by a common purpose to help make financial lives better through the power of every connection. We do this by driving Responsible Growth and delivering for our clients, teammates, communities and shareholders every day.

Being a Great Place to Work is core to how we drive Responsible Growth. This includes our commitment to being an inclusive workplace, attracting and developing exceptional talent, supporting our teammates’ physical, emotional, and financial wellness, recognizing and rewarding performance, and how we make an impact in the communities we serve.

Bank of America is committed to an in‑office culture with specific requirements for office‑based attendance and a flexible arrangement based on role‑specific considerations.

At Bank of America, you can build a successful career with opportunities to learn, grow, and make an impact. Join us!

Manual Ethical Hacking is part of the Application Development Security Framework Program within Bank of America’s Cyber Security Assurance Offensive Security group. The program provides services to assess the security resilience of the bank’s applications to malicious hacking activity.

This senior technical role is responsible for performing and leading ethical hacking assessments of the bank’s technologies, applications and cyber security controls while adapting testing methods to evolving and emerging threats. It involves leading and performing research, understanding the bank’s security policies, working with appropriate partners to complete assessments and simulations, identifying misconfigurations and vulnerabilities, and reporting on associated risk. These individuals partner closely with security partners, CIO clients and multiple lines of business. They are expected to perform application security‑oriented dynamic and static assessments across a multitude of technologies including web UI, web APIs, mobile and cloud, including associated source code.

Key Responsibilities (in order of importance)

Perform assigned analysis of internal and external threats on information systems and predict future threat behaviour.
Incorporate threat actors’ tactics, techniques, and procedures into offensive security testing to identify high‑value vulnerabilities or chained attacks.
Develop proof‑of‑concepts for exploitation.
Perform assessments of the security, effectiveness and practicality of multiple technology systems.
Leverage innovative thinking to help solve problems or introduce new ideas to processes or products applicable to offensive security.
Prepare and present detailed technical information for various media including documents, reports, and notifications.
Provide clear and practical advice regarding managing risks.
Learn and develop advanced technical and leadership skills, mentor Junior and Intermediate assessors in technical tradecraft and soft skills.
Respond to security incidents and provide technical assistance to leadership across the Information Security organization.

Required Skills

Minimum of 5+ years of professional pentesting, application security or ethical hacking experience, preferably in a large, complex, enterprise environment.
Detailed technical knowledge in at least five of the following areas:

Security engineering
Application architecture
Authentication and security protocols
Application session management
Applied cryptography
Common communication protocols
Mobile frameworks
Single sign‑on technologies
Exploit automation platforms
Web APIs
Cloud environments
LLM security
Mobile application analysis

Able to manually identify and reproduce findings, discuss remediation concepts, develop PoCs for vulnerabilities, use scripting/coding techniques, proficiently execute common penetration testing tools, triage and support incidents, and produce high‑value findings.
Experience performing manual web application assessments (i.e., must be able to simulate an OWASP Top 10 vulnerability without the use of tools).
Experience performing manual code reviews for security‑relevant issues.
Experience working with DAST and SAST tools to identify vulnerabilities.
Knowledge of network and web‑related protocols/technologies (e.g., UNIX/LINUX, TCP/IP, cookies).
Experience with vulnerability assessment tools and penetration testing techniques.
Solid programming/debugging skills, development frameworks, CVE and CWE research/reproduction.
Threat analysis, threat modelling and SBOM analysis.
Innovative thinking, threat actor simulation.
Technology systems assessment.
Technical documentation.
Advisory.

Desired Skills

CEH, OSCP/OSCE/OSWE/GXPN/GPEN/GWAPT/GMOB, all practitioner certificates (including Port Swigger BSP Academy) / cloud certifications / eWPT; eWPTX; eMAPT (INE Pentester Academy).
Strong programming/scripting skills.
Frida.
Binary analysis (disassembly skills).

Soft Skills