Senior Manual Ethical Hacker

Bank of America; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 160,000 - 205,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Industry-leading benefits

Paid time off

Discretionary incentive

Job summary

A leading financial institution in Seattle seeks a Senior Ethical Hacker to enhance application security through manual assessments and innovative techniques. This role requires 5+ years of experience in penetration testing, with responsibilities including vulnerability identification, reporting, and mentoring junior staff. Join a diverse and inclusive team dedicated to responsible growth and industry-leading cybersecurity practices.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5+ years of professional pentesting or application security experience.
• Able to manually identify vulnerabilities and develop proof-of-concepts.
• Experience performing manual web application assessments, simulating OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities.

Responsibilities

• Lead and perform ethical hacking assessments of the bank's technologies.
• Identify misconfigurations and vulnerabilities, and report risks.
• Mentor junior assessors in technical skills and support incident responses.

Skills

Penetration Testing

Application Security

Ethical Hacking

Threat Analysis

Scripting

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. Responsible Growth is how we run our company and how we deliver for our clients, teammates, communities and shareholders every day.

One of the keys to driving Responsible Growth is being a great place to work for our teammates around the world. We're devoted to being a diverse and inclusive workplace for everyone. We hire individuals with a broad range of backgrounds and experiences and invest heavily in our teammates and their families by offering competitive benefits to support their physical, emotional, and financial well-being.

Bank of America believes both in the importance of working together and offering flexibility to our employees. We use a multi-faceted approach for flexibility, depending on the various roles in our organization.

Working at Bank of America will give you a great career with opportunities to learn, grow and make an impact, along with the power to make a difference. Join us!

Job Description:

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 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. Key responsibilities include 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 multiples lines of business. These individuals 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 behavior.
• Incorporate threat actors' tactics, techniques, and procedures into offensive security testing to identify high-value vulnerabilities/chained attacks.
• Developing 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 5 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
• 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 a OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities 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:

• CEH, OSCP/OSCE/OSWE/GXPN/GPEN/GWAPT/GMOB/All Practitioner Certs [Port Swigger BSP Academy]/Cloud Cert(s)/ eWPT; eWPTX; eMAPT [INE Pentester Academy]
• Strong programming/scripting skills

This job will be open and accepting applications for a minimum of seven days from the date it was posted.

Shift:
1st shift (United States of America)

Hours Per Week:
40

Pay Transparency details

US - CO - Denver - 1144 15th St - Denver Gis (CO9926), US - IL - Chicago - 540 W Madison St - Bank Of America Plaza (IL4540), US - NJ - Jersey City - 101 Hudson St - 101 Hudson (NJ2101), US - WA - Seattle - 401 Union St - Rainier Square (WA1510)

Pay and benefits information

Pay range

$160,000.00 - $205,000.00 annualized salary, offers to be determined based on experience, education and skill set.

Discretionary incentive eligible

This role is eligible to participate in the annual discretionary plan. Employees are eligible for an annual discretionary award based on their overall individual performance results and behaviors, the performance and contributions of their line of business and/or group; and the overall success of the Company.

Benefits

This role is currently benefits eligible. We provide industry-leading benefits, access to paid time off, resources and support to our employees so they can make a genuine impact and contribute to the sustainable growth of our business and the communities we serve.