Penetration Tester

Working in Cybersecurity takes passion for technology, speed, a desire to learn, and vigilance in order to keep every asset safe. You’ll be on the front lines of innovation, working with a highly motivated team focused on analyzing, designing, developing and delivering solutions built to stop adversaries and strengthen our operations. Your research and work will ensure stability, capacity, and resiliency of our products. Working with your internal team, as well as technologists and innovators across our global network, your ability to identify threats, provide intelligent analysis, and positive actions will stop crimes and strengthen our data.

The global Cybersecurity assessments team delivers next generation application and infrastructure penetration testing. As part of the team, your primary responsibility will be performing hands on penetration testing of some of JPMC’s most critical applications, platforms, and the perimeter. You will work with application developers to not only understand root cause and mitigate vulnerabilities, but also to identify where vulnerabilities can be identified earlier in the SDLC.

Successful candidates are expected to demonstrate an eagerness to learn, the drive to excel, excellent technical knowledge of security concepts and proven expertise in penetration testing.

Responsibilities:

Conduct in-depth manual penetration tests, identifying vulnerabilities in Web/Mobile Applications, Thick Clients, On-Prem and Cloud Infrastructures Reporting on findings and vulnerabilities including presenting results to non-technical managers Develop customized tools and automation scripts to improve identification of vulnerabilities at scale

Minimum qualifications :

Manual penetration testing experience (beyond running automated tools) against a wide variety of applications including web, mobile and thick clients, internal and external facing infrastructures Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience Foundational knowledge of cybersecurity organization practices, operations, risk management processes, principles, architectural requirements, engineering and threats and vulnerabilities, including incident response methodologies  Ability to collaborate with high-performing Agile teams and individuals throughout the firm to accomplish goals  Ability to analyze vulnerabilities, threats, designs, procedures and architectural design, producing reports and sharing intelligence  Foundational knowledge of: computer forensics; legal, government and jurisprudence as they relate to cybersecurity, and methods for intelligence gathering and sharing  Foundational knowledge of: operating systems, command line administration and scripting Foundational knowledge of: cloud computing, computer network defense, external organizations and academic institutions dealing with cybersecurity issues, financial authorities and regulations, identity management, incident management, information assurance, information management, information systems and network security and infrastructure design Good understanding of application and infrastructure testing methodologies and vulnerabilities Adept at explaining technical jargon to non-technical parties Excellent report writing and presentation skills Willingness to learn and drive to excel is a must

Preferred qualifications:

Proficiency in security concepts for both Windows and Unix-like Operating Systems Experience in source code review and/or building software with multiple programming languages (. Python, Java, Rust, Experience in reverse engineering standalone, thick client and mobile applications Certifications like CREST (CRT, CCT), OSCP, OSCE, GXPN, GRE

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