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Chad Horton

Senior Penetration Tester

Posted on Oodle - Over 4 weeks ago

Company:: Securitymetrics

Location:: Orem, UT

Features & Description

JOB TITLE: Senior Penetration Tester
JOB SUMMARY: Manually analyze customer security by attempting to penetrate servers.

COMPENSATION
- Salary based on experience
- Full health and dental benefits
- 401k plan with employer matching

JOB APPLICATION

Qualified applicants should send an email to pentest_job@securitymetrics.com with the following information:
- Résumé in a nice format. We prefer PDF or plain-text.
- Contact information

The first round of interviews will be start on Oct 19th, 2009.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS
- Significant software engineering/architecting, or equivalent experience
- Problem-solving skills
- Enthusiasm
- Aptitude
- Social Skills
- In-depth experience with various operating systems
- Strong understanding of networking
- Ability to handle pressure
- Personal references have positive feedback
- Good English skills (good grammar, spelling, and use of language)
- Personal project portfolio (code sample at minimum, preferably working demos on personal laptop or available online)

DESIRED ATTRIBUTES

We are looking for individuals passionate about security that frequently spend non-work hours researching exploits and vulnerabilities, reading security blogs or books, and experimenting with and writing applications. Applicants should be self-starters, highly motivated and willing to adapt to a constantly evolving security landscape.

The list below contains many of the desired attributes that we look for in a candidate. No one person is expected to be an expert in all of these areas initially, but the more background an applicant has in these different areas, the better.

* Items marked with an asterisk below are particularly relevant.

Education & Certifications
- *Bachelors degree (Computer Engineering, CS, IS, EE, etc.)
- Security Certifications (*CISSP, CEH, CPT, etc)
- Other technical, development, or security-related certifications
- Report writing experience

Programming & Scripting Languages
- *Python
- *SQL
- Ruby
- Perl
- Java
- PHP
- C / C++
- Bash
- Javascript / AJAX
- VB / Microsofty stuff

Security & Security Software
- burp
- firewalk
- grendel
- hydra
- iptables
- medusa
- *metasploit
- nagios
- nessus
- netcat
- nitko
- *nmap
- *openssh
- openssl
- paros
- saint
- sqlmap
- *tcpdump
- webinspect

Operating Systems
- *Linux
- *OS X
- FreeBSD
- OpenBSD
- Microsoft

Networking
- *TCP/IP
- Ethernet
- Network design, performance, monitoring and troubleshooting

Software
- apache
- *emacs
- git
- iis
- mssql
- mysql
- postgresql
- *subversion
- vim
- virtual box
- vmware

Protocols
- *HTTP
- VPN Protocols (IPSec, PPTP, etc.)
- FTP
- Telnet
- SMTP

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