Lead Penetration tester

1 day ago

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia IT Alliance Australia Full time $80,000 - $120,000 per year

One of our
Federal government clients
seeking to engage a
Lead Penetration tester.

Role: Lead Penetration Tester - (EL1 Level)

Location of work: Canberra and Melbourne

Length of contract: 12 months

Contract extensions: 24 months extension (two extensions of twelve months each)

Security clearance: Must have Negative Vetting Level 1 security clearance

Job details

Penetration Testers analyse IT systems to determine configuration weaknesses and faults that would impact on security and business then produce reports detailing the findings and recommendations for improved network security.

Key duties and responsibilities

CLIENT requires an EL 1 equivalent Penetration Tester to identify vulnerabilities and assess weaknesses that may exist in the security controls protecting Australian Government web applications.

  • Assess Australian Government entities to determine the effectiveness of both prevention and detection security controls.
  • Execute tools to simulate well known adversary tradecraft to perform privilege escalation and lateral movement.
  • Identify weaknesses in common Microsoft technologies such as Active Directory.
  • Assess and identify vulnerabilities in web applications and APIs.
  • Development and automation of custom tools.

Essential criteria

1.Demonstrated minimum 5 years' experience in infrastructure and/or web application penetration testing.

2.Demonstrated experience with assessing environments and systems against the Australian government's Information Security Manual.

3.Demonstrated experience in assessing and exploiting common vulnerabilities found in enterprise networks and infrastructure (e.g. Microsoft Active Directory, Azure AD).

4.Demonstrated experience in assessing, identifying and exploiting known and common vulnerabilities (OWASP Top 10) in web applications and supporting infrastructure.

Desirable criteria

1.Possess professional certifications such as OCSP, GPEN, OSWA, GWAPT, OSWE, OSCE.

2.Experience with scripting languages (PowerShell, Python, Javascript etc).

3.Experience in developing security tools across varying system architectures; exposure to testing enclaved networks and classified systems.

4.Demonstrated practical knowledge of web application penetration testing, including fuzzing, scripting, and application logic exploitation.

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