Senior ISSE/Penetration Tester

Senior ISSE/Penetration Tester

Unisity, LLC is a Service-Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business providing expert services in the Information Technology fields. We pride ourselves on delivering what is promised, as some would say we "just do". We are highly-qualified, self-driven professionals who work towards a common goal as a team, leading when appropriate and following when needed.

Candidates must have at least 10 years of relevant experience with both ISSE and Penetration Testing, not just one or the other.

Job Summary

The selected individual will become part of a team of Security Engineers and will develop and lead Security Testing Events by conducting penetration testing, publishing results, and researching penetration testing tools to enhance our overall testing capabilities. The position requires a solid understanding of security practices and policies as well as hands-on vulnerability testing experience. The selected individual will collaborate with other engineers and technical experts in providing improvements to our operational, test, integration, and development systems.

Primary Responsibilities

The selected candidate will have a range of day-to-day responsibilities across multiple activities, including the following:

• Validating and verifying system security requirements and establishing system security designs for large-scale systems, major system elements, and interfacing systems that are part of a large complex network environment with geographically distributed components.
• Identifying and implementing appropriate information security architectures and functionality to ensure uniform application of security policy and enterprise solutions.
• Recommending and developing technical solutions, products, and standards based on current and desired system security architecture.
• Assessing and mitigating system security threats and risks throughout the program life cycle.
• Leading and/or contributing to the security planning, assessment, risk analysis, risk management, certification, and awareness activities for various system and networking operations.
• Collaborating with multiple internal technical experts and communicating with Program Managers and customer POCs when necessary regarding security issues of significant importance.
• Working closely with System Engineering, Test Engineering, and Integration teams to ensure that hardware and software architectures and implementations meet security requirements.
• Analyzing and assessing system implementation against multiple security compliance policies and recommending and implementing enhancements.
• Evaluating security solutions to ensure they meet customer specified requirements for processing information.
• Evaluating the impact of new development on the operational security posture of the system.
• Evaluating, reviewing, and testing critical software.
• Proposing, assessing, coordinating, implementing, and enforcing information systems security policies, standards, and methodologies.
• Auditing and assessing system security configuration settings using common methodologies and tools.
• Managing and enforcing security strategies and policies that affect various components of geographically distributed systems.
• Participating in Program Increment Planning and related agile team activities.
• Providing configuration management for security-relevant information system software.
• Serving as a subject matter expert in security architecture to include providing advice to Program Managers, customer technical experts, and internal program teams.
• Formulating security compliance requirements for new system features.
• Identifying and remediating security issues throughout the system.
• Supporting risk assessment, risk management, security control assessment, continuous monitoring, service design, and other IA program support functions.
• Working with development teams to enrich team-wide understanding of different types of vulnerabilities, attack vectors and remediation approaches.
• Planning and conducting security verification testing of relevant type 1 devices.
• Performing internal and external pen tests against systems to determine vulnerabilities and develop mitigation strategies.
• Performing web app pen tests.
• Performing vulnerability risk assessments.
• Performing physical pen tests and security engineering analysis and assessing the vulnerabilities/solutions for the pen testing.

Basic Qualifications

• At least 10 years of relevant experience with both ISSE and Penetration Testing, not just one or the other.
• Must have extensive, demonstrated knowledge of and experience with common security tools, such as Nessus, NMAP and Wireshark hardware/software security implementation, communication protocol, encryption techniques/tools, and web services.
• Must have in-depth understanding and extensive experience with security practices and policies and hands-on vulnerability testing using Tenable Nessus scanning products and/or nmap (Network Mapper).
• Must have experience with Defense in Depth Principals/technology, including access control, authorization, identification and authentication, public key infrastructure, network and enterprise security architecture, and applying risk assessment methodology to system development.
• Must have experience applying Risk Management Framework.
• Must have experience formulating and assessing IT security policy.
• Must have experience with secure configurations of commonly used desktop and server operating systems.
• Must have experience with penetration testing tools.
• Must have experience developing and implementing integrated security services management processes, such as assessing and auditing network penetration testing, anti-virus planning assistance, risk analysis, and incident response.
• Must have experience providing information assurance support for application development that includes system security certifications and project evaluations for firewalls that encompass system development, design, and implementation.
• Must be comfortable working on multiple systems and components simultaneously in various configurations.
• Must be able to effectively plan and prioritize tasking and communicate clearly regarding technical options and trade-offs.
• Must be capable of performing high quality work both independently and with a team in a fast-moving environment.
• Must have strong verbal and written communications skills.
• Must be committed to adopting and adhering to best practices.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or master's degree in Computer Science, Information Assurance, Information Security System Engineering, or a related discipline.
• DoD 8570 compliance with IASAE Level 2 or 3.
• Information Systems Security Engineering Professional (ISSEP) Certification and/or Computer Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) Certification.
• Experience with scripting languages.
• Candidates with certifications in the following areas are strongly preferred:
• GIAC Web Applications Penetration Tester (GWAPT)
• GIAC Penetration Tester (GPEN)
• Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH)
• Certified Information Security Manager (CISM)
• Certified Web Application Defender (GWEB)
• Certified Information System Security Professional (CISSP)

Due to federal contract requirements, United States Citizenship and position appropriate security clearance is required. (e.g. Active TS/SCI security clearance with customer appropriate polygraph).

Salary Range: Coming Soon (Annually)

Annual Compensation Figures listed for this position serve as a general guideline and are not a guarantee of compensation. Compensation will vary dependent upon factors including but not limited to: Government contract rates; education; relevant prior work experience, knowledge, skills, and competencies; certifications, and geographic location.

Benefits Package:

Unisity, LLC believes in generously supporting employees as they prepare for retirement. The company automatically contributes an additional 12% of each employee's gross compensation to the company 401k plan, with no requirement for employee matching. All contributions are fully vested from day one, ensuring immediate ownership of retirement funds.

Full-time employees have the option to participate in a variety of voluntary benefit plans including:

• A Choice of Medical Plan Options, some with Health Savings Account (HSA)
• Vision and Dental
• Unisity, LLC provides an additional 12% of employee's gross compensation to be used for benefits, any remaining funds are then forwarded to the employee as taxable income
• Life and AD&D Benefits (Company Paid)
• Short and Long-Term Disability (Company Paid)

Unisity, LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

Affirmative Action Statement:

Unisity, LLC is committed to the principles of affirmative action in all hiring and employment for minorities, women, individuals with disabilities, and protected veterans.

Accommodations:

Unisity, LLC is committed to providing an inclusive and accessible hiring process. If you need any accommodations during the application or interview process, please contact us at View email address on click.appcast.io. We are happy to provide reasonable accommodations to ensure