Senior Manual Ethical Hacker

Bank of America; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 98,000 - 134,200; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Industry-leading benefits

Paid time off

Annual discretionary bonus

Job summary

A major financial institution is looking for a Senior Ethical Hacker in Washington, DC. This role involves leading ethical hacking assessments to ensure the security of the bank's applications and systems. The ideal candidate has over 5 years of experience in pentesting and application security, with strong skills in technical analysis and reporting. The position is suitable for those who thrive in an in-office environment, offering competitive salary and benefits, designed for professional growth and community impact.

Qualifications

• Five years of experience in pentesting or ethical hacking.
• Ability to perform manual web assessments simulating OWASP Top 10.
• Strong programming/debugging skills required.

Responsibilities

• Lead and perform ethical hacking assessments of technologies.
• Develop proof-of-concepts for exploitation.
• Provide detailed technical reports and advice on risk management.

Skills

Minimum of 5+ years of professional pentesting, application security or ethical hacking experience

Detailed technical knowledge in security engineering

Manual identification and reproduction of findings

Experience performing manual web application assessments

Experience with vulnerability assessment tools

Threat Analysis and threat modeling

Tools

Penetration testing tools

DAST and SAST tools

Job description

Overview

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’s 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 which allows for an appropriate level of flexibility for our teammates and businesses 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!

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

• 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
  • 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 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
• Frida
• Binary analysis (disassembly skills)

Skills

• Advisory
• Innovative Thinking
• Technical Documentation
• Technology System Assessment
• Threat Analysis
• Adaptability
• Collaboration
• Scenario Planning and Analysis
• Test Engineering
• Written Communications
• Attention to Detail
• Information Systems Management
• Issue Management
• Presentation Skills
• Prioritization

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 - DC - Washington - 1800 K St NW - 1800 K Street NW (DC1842), US - IL - Chicago - 540 W Madison St - Bank Of America Plaza (IL4540), US - MA - Boston - 100 Federal St - 100 Federal St Lp (MA5100), 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 $98,000.00 - $134,200.00 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.