Job ID 2412713-3472
Location AUSTIN, TX, US
Date Posted 2024-09-30
Category Cyber
Subcategory Cyber Engineer
Schedule Full-time
Shift Day Job
Travel No
Minimum Clearance Required None
Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain Public Trust
Potential for Remote Work No
Description
As a Penetration Tester, you will play a crucial role in proactively discovering vulnerabilities in systems and on the Department of Veterans Affairs networks. Your primary focus is completing time-based penetration tests to support the Authority to Operate (ATO) approval process for System Owners.
Duties
- Perform penetration testing against various systems, which may include web applications, databases, web services, network devices, operating systems, cloud installations, and infrastructure (hardware) devices
- Utilize a variety of industry standard security tools to conduct manual-based security assessments
- Utilize a variety of industry standard security tools to conduct automated scans against systems
- Review new vulnerabilities as they are published and develop impact assessments
- Determine risk from vulnerabilities based on availability of exploit and potential loss of information and IT services capabilities
- Produce periodic trending and impact reports as required
- Generate reports (automated and manual) based on results from assessments and have the ability to explain in detail to customers
- Develop new testing techniques and programs to support the Penetration testing team
- Manage and maintain hardware and software an ability to provide infrastructure maintenance support to attack systems
- Knowledge and experience with processes and procedures relating to information gathering, threat modeling, vulnerability analysis, exploitation, post-exploitation, and reporting
Qualifications
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree (4 years of additional relevant experience may be substituted for education)
- 2+ years of experience in the IT functions like network administration, engineering, or security
- 1 year of experience supporting offensive cybersecurity roles
- Must have Penetration Testing certification
Experience With The Following
- Support Windows, Unix, and Linux operating systems
- VMWare
- Kali Linux Suite
- Nessus Scanner (Tenable)
- RedHat Enterprise Linux
- NMAP
- Ability to conduct scripting in bash and powershell
Preferred Certifications
- OSCP
- PNPT
- Pentest+
- CISSP
- C|EH
SAIC accepts applications on an ongoing basis and there is no deadline.
Covid Policy SAIC does not require COVID-19 vaccinations or boosters. Customer site vaccination requirements must be followed when work is performed at a customer site.
