Job Summary:
Bank of America is dedicated to enhancing financial lives and fostering an inclusive workplace. The Senior Manual Ethical Hacker will lead ethical hacking assessments to evaluate the security resilience of the bank’s applications and technologies, adapting testing methods to counter emerging threats.
Responsibilities:
• Perform assigned analysis of internal and external threats on information systems and predict future threat behavior.
• Incorporate threat actors' tactics, techniques, and procedures into offensive security testing to identify high-value vulnerabilities/chained attacks.
• Developing Proof-of-concepts for exploitation.
• Perform assessments of the security, effectiveness, and practicality of multiple technology systems.
• Leverage innovative thinking to help solve problems or introduce new ideas to processes or products applicable to offensive security.
• Prepare and present detailed technical information for various media including documents, reports, and notifications.
• Provide clear and practical advice regarding managing risks.
• Learn and develop advanced technical and leadership skills, mentor Junior and Intermediate assessors in technical tradecraft and soft skills.
• Respond to security incidents and provide technical assistance to leadership across the Information Security organization.
Qualifications:
Required:
• Minimum of 5+ years of professional pentesting, application security or ethical hacking experience, preferably in a large, complex, enterprise environment
• Detailed technical knowledge in at least 5 of the following areas: security engineering, application architecture, authentication and security protocols, application session management, applied cryptography, common communication protocols, mobile frameworks, single sign-on technologies, exploit automation platforms, Web APIs, Cloud environments, LLM security, Mobile application analysis
• Able to manually identify and reproduce findings, discuss remediation concepts, develop PoCs for vulnerabilities, use scripting/coding techniques, proficiently execute common penetration testing tools, triage, and support incidents, and produce high value findings
• Experience performing manual web application assessments i.e., must be able to simulate a OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities without the use of tools
• Experience performing manual code reviews for security relevant issues
• Experience working with DAST and SAST tools to identify vulnerabilities
• Knowledge of network and Web related protocols/technologies (e.g., UNIX/LINUX, TCP/IP, Cookies)
• Experience with vulnerability assessment tools and penetration testing techniques
• Solid programming/debugging skills, development frameworks, CVE and CWE research/reproduction
• Threat Analysis, threat modelling and SBOM analysis
• Innovative thinking, threat actor simulation
• Technology Systems Assessment
• Technical Documentation
• Advisory
Preferred:
• CEH, OSCP/OSCE/OSWE/GXPN/GPEN/GWAPT/GMOB/All Practitioner Certs [Port Swigger BSP Academy]/Cloud Cert(s)/ eWPT; eWPTX; eMAPT [INE Pentester Academy]
• Strong programming/scripting skills
• Frida
• Binary analysis (disassembly skills)
Company:
Bank of America is a financial institution that offers credit cards, home loans, and auto loan services. Founded in 1998, the company is headquartered in Charlotte, USA, with a team of 10001+ employees. The company is currently Late Stage.