Penetration Tester / Ethical Hacker – CampusGuard

CampusGuard, a Nelnet Company, provides information security services for campus-based organizations including higher education institutions, healthcare providers, city, county and state government agencies and hospitality markets. As a full-service information security firm, we leverage our knowledge combined with the industry standards for compliance and information security issues to provide our customers with world class information security & compliance services.

CampusGuard provides information security services for our customers. We serve campus-based markets including education, healthcare, hospitality, and state and local government. The Offensive Security team assists customers with protecting personally identifiable information as described by various industries and regulatory agencies through a detailed analysis of systems, infrastructure, personnel procedures and physical security. As a full-service information security firm, we leverage our knowledge combined with the industry standards to provide our customers with world class information security & compliance services.

The Penetration Tester/Ethical Hacker is responsible for assessing a customers business and operating environment risk and infrastructure vulnerability posture. This position requires a wide range of knowledge of network infrastructures, operating systems hardware platforms, networking systems and the security vulnerabilities within each category. The qualified individual in this position will evaluate customer networks to discover and exploit security flaws and vulnerabilities with attack simulations on multiple platforms working against a specific customer-focused scope of work. This position requires a highly technical skill level to assess the risks and vulnerabilities of a customers network while being able to articulate the issues to a non-IT professional audience. Excellent communication skills, both oral and written are required to provide the reporting information to the customer after the tests are completed. When not performing the specific Scanning and Penetration Testing / Ethical Hacking functions, the individual in this position may provide support to the Security Advisors with other security assessments and gap analysis functions.

This position requires work in support of the Companys contract with the United States Department of Education (ED). As such, the United States Government requires that any applicant for this position must complete United States Government security clearance. Effective June 1, 2018, ED has informed Nelnet that security clearance applications for foreign nationals are not being accepted or processed. In light of this direction from ED, Nelnet will be unable to hire applicants without United States citizenship for such positions.

PRINCIPAL RESPONSIBILITIES:

Responsible for scanning and performing in depth penetration testing and reporting of customer business and operating environments and network infrastructure related to compliance and other relevant industry standards. Activities include, but are not limited to the following:

1. Understand the Scope of Work for each customer agreement and perform the duties and tasks required by those agreements in an organized, professional manner.

2. Perform vulnerability assessments and penetration testing, utilizing commercial and open source tools.

3. Conduct web application penetration testing in line with Open Web Application Security Project.

4. Exploit security flaws and vulnerabilities with attack simulations on multiple projects working against specific customer systems and networks in accordance with an agreed scope of work.

5. Effectively provide technical risk assessment of technologies in networks, applications, systems, wireless, and perform social engineering.

6. Review and analyze security vulnerability data to identify applicability and false positives.

7. Ability to solve complex technical problems and articulate to non-IT personnel.

8. Document all processes and procedures in accordance with CampusGuard standards.

9. Report on findings and advise customers in remediation activities as required.

10. Research and develop testing tools, techniques, and process improvements.

11. When time allows, provide support to the Security Advisors with security assessments and gap analysis of system infrastructures in alignment with the PCI DSS, HIPAA and other well-known information security requirements.

Assist with sales and marketing activities:

1. Participate in sales calls as an industry expert

2. Attend conferences as appropriate

3. Prepare and perform industry-related presentations and/or webcasts

4. Other sales/marketing support duties as requested

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS:

The Penetration Tester/Ethical Hacker must have sufficient information security knowledge and experience to conduct technically complex security assessments.

Minimum acceptable education requirements: Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Cyber Security or the equivalent, and/or 5 years experience in the information security industry

Minimum acceptable certification requirements: Possess industry-recognized security certification(s) including one or more of the following: Offensive Security Certified Professional (OSCP), GIAC Penetration Tester (GPEN), Offensive Security Web Expert (OSWE), Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH)

Note: Candidate must agree to prepare for and pass the PCI Professional (PCIP) certification and any other certifications as directed by his or her manager.

Minimum acceptable work experience requirements: If a candidate does not satisfy any of the above education criteria or certificates, he or she must have a minimum of five years of relevant information security experience or proof of other recognized security certifications.

KEY SKILLS, QUALIFICATIONS AND TRAITS:

Offensive Security Web Expert (OSWE), Offensive Security Certified Expert (OSCE), or Offensive Security Certified Professional (OSCP) highly preferred.

Strong understanding of various web technologies and testing methodologies

Experience with penetration testing of cloud hosted environments is a plus.

Actively participating in the larger InfoSec community is a plus (industry presentations, having developed tools, participating in capture the flag (CTF) events, mentoring/educating, bug bounty hunting)

Demonstrates an ability to methodically analyze problems, identify solutions, and communicate to a non-technical audience.

Exhibits good writing and communications skills, to include the ability to render concise reports, summaries, and formal oral presentations.

Adequately explains, presents, demonstrates [when applicable] and documents the operational impact of a particular vulnerability/exploit. Advise customers in remediation tasks for discovered vulnerabilities.

Self-motivated and able to work both independently and with a team.

Willing to travel up to 25% of the time.

COMPETENCIES:

(C=Core Competencies; F=Functional)

C- Understanding of Higher Education, Healthcare, and Government institutions and their structure.

C- Understanding of information processing networks and related security issues.

C- Understanding of Industry standard information security standards and their applicability.

C- Understanding of system infrastructures, vulnerabilities, exploits and remediation tasks.

F- Ability to flow from black box to gray box to white box testing methodologies dependent on customer needs

F- Understanding of well-known security standards e.g., PCI DSS, NIST 800-53, ISO/IEC 27000-series, etc.

F- Understanding of Health Information security standards e.g., HIPAA, HITECH.

F- Understanding of differences between security breach, data compromise, and fraud

F- Understanding of campus type environments, structures, operations, and security needs

Colorado residents: pay range for this position starts at $80,000/yr and up, varies based on experience.

Our benefits package includes medical, dental, vision, HSA and FSA, generous earned time off, 401K/student loan repayment, life insurance & AD&D insurance, employee assistance program, employee stock purchase program, tuition reimbursement, performance-based incentive pay, short- and long-term disability, and a robust wellness program. Click here to learn more about our benefits: LINK (http://nelnetinc.com/careers/benefits/) .

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