Job Description:

At Bank of America, we are guided by a common purpose to help make financial lives better through the power of every connection. We do this by driving Responsible Growth and delivering for our clients, teammates, communities and shareholders every day.

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Bank of America is committed to an in-office culture with specific requirements for office-based attendance and which allows for an appropriate level of flexibility for our teammates and businesses based on role-specific considerations.

At Bank of America, you can build a successful career with opportunities to learn, grow, and make an impact. Join us!

Job Description:

Manual Ethical Hacking is part of the Application Development Security Framework Program within Bank of America’s Cyber Security Assurance Offensive Security group. The program provides services to assess the vulnerability of the bank’s applications to malicious hacking activity.

This intermediate technical role is responsible for performing application security assessments of the bank's technologies, applications, and cyber security controls while adapting testing methods to evolving and emerging threats. Key responsibilities include performing research, understanding the bank’s security policies, working with the appropriate partners to complete assessments and simulations, identifying misconfigurations and vulnerabilities, and reporting on associated risk. These individuals partner closely with security partners, CIO clients and multiples lines of business.

Key Responsibilities in order of importance:

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
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 managed risks
Learn and develop advanced technical and leadership skills, Mentor Junior assessors in technical tradecraft and soft skills

Required Skills:

Minimum of 4 years of professional pentesting, application security or ethical hacking experience, preferably in a large, complex, enterprise environment
Detailed technical knowledge in at least 3 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; RESTful web services
SQL injection/XSS attack without the use of tools
Experience performing manual code reviews for security relevant issues
Experience working with SAST tools to identify vulnerabilities
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
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
Experience of using a variety of tools, included, but not limited to, IBM AppScan, Burp and SQL Map
Threat Analysis
Innovative Thinking
Technology Systems Assessment
Technical Documentation
Advisory

Desired:

CISSP, CEH, OSCP, OSWE, GPEN, PenTest+ or similar
Strong programming/scripting skills
Mobile application analysis
Frida
Binary analysis (disassembly skills)

Skills:

Advisory
Innovative Thinking
Technical Documentation
Technology System Assessment
Threat Analysis
Adaptability
Collaboration
Executive Presence
Scenario Planning and Analysis
Test Engineering
Controls Management
Information Systems Management
Issue Management
Mentoring
Presentation Skills

This job will be open and accepting applications for a minimum of seven days from the date it was posted.

Shift:

1st shift (United States of America)

Hours Per Week:

40

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