[SJ-JOB] Penetration Engineer, San Francisco

[email protected] 18 Nov 2008 00:10:25 -0000
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JOB DESCRIPTION
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Position:       Penetration Engineer
Location:       San Francisco, California, United States
Type:           Permanent F/T

Closing Date:   2008-12-12

The National Incident Response Team (NIRT), a National Information Techno=
logy Operation (NITO), for the Federal Reserve System delivers effective =
and efficient national intrusion detection, incident response, security i=
ntelligence, threat assessment, and vulnerability assessment services for=
 the Federal Reserve System. As a member of NIRT&#146;s Information Secur=
ity Assessment Team, you will interact with NIRT&#146;s customers who are=
 located around the Federal Reserve System evaluating the security of the=
ir information systems and applications. The primary area of responsibili=
ty will be conducting information security assessments. This will include=
 running vulnerability assessment tools and performing infrastructure and=
 application penetration testing. =0D
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Job Responsibilities:=0D
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&#149;          Oversee and conduct vulnerability assessments and penetra=
tion testing;=0D
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&#149;          Oversee and perform the review and analysis of security v=
ulnerability data to identify applicability and false positives;=0D
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&#149;          Prepare and distribute security assessment reports to cus=
tomers;=0D
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&#149;          Research and develop testing tools, techniques, and proce=
ss improvements=0D
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&#149;          Performs additional incidental duties as assigned.=0D
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JOB REQUIREMENTS
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Job Requirements:=0D
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&#149;          Bachelor degree in Information Technology/Computer Scienc=
e, or related disciplines and/or equivalent work experience;=0D
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&#149;          Excellent analytical skills;=0D
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&#149;          Excellent interpersonal, communication, organizational, a=
nd project management skills;=0D
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&#149;          Team player with excellent consultative and communication=
 skills, and the proven ability to work effectively with client, internal=
 management and staff, vendors and consultants; =0D
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&#149;          Strong written and verbal communications skills;=0D
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&#149;          Proven ability to communicate technical issues to technic=
al and non-technical business area representatives.=0D
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&#149;          Hands-on experience with commercial and open-source netwo=
rk and application security testing tools=0D
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&#149;          Experience testing web applications for common web applic=
ation security vulnerabilities as defined by OWASP including input valida=
tion vulnerabilities, broken access controls, session management vulnerab=
ilities, cross-site scripting issues, SQL injection and web server config=
uration issues=0D
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&#149;          Application security source code and design review=0D
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&#149;          Ability to travel;=0D
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&#149;          Approximately 3-5 years of experience in the security asp=
ects of multiple platforms, operating systems, software, communications, =
and network protocols.=0D
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&#149;          Ability to obtain US Security Clearance =0D
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&#149;          CISSP certified or the ability to work towards obtaining =
the certification. =0D
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Desired=0D
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&#149;          Familiarity with application development (C, C++, .NET, J=
AVA);=0D
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&#149;          Script-writing skills (VB, perl, PHP);=0D
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&#149;          Experience developing exploits.=0D
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The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco is an Equal Opportunity Employe=
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CONTACT
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To be considered for the position, please apply on-line at www.frbsf.org=0D
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Please, no phone calls about this job!

Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Phanmaly Somsanith
Recruiter
[email protected]



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