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Consultant - Attack & Penetration | Remote, Canada

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The consultant will conduct security assessments, lead teams, improve practice efficiency, and mentor others, ensuring high-quality standards.
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This position will be fully remote and can be hired in any Canadian province

Our consultants are skilled technical and consultative resources expected to be strong in both technical and soft skills. A Consultant must be a proven self-starter with the ability to problem-solve, communicate, participate in diverse project teams from a technical perspective, and interface effectively with customers, vendor partners, and colleagues. Establish & maintain productive and respectful relationships with the delivery team, practice management, and client management team.

How you'll make an impact:

  • This position will work both independently, part of a team, and as team lead to perform Security Assessments including red team assessments, purple team assessments, vulnerability assessments, penetration tests, wireless security assessments, physical security assessments, and social engineering

  • An Attack & Penetration Consultant also contributes to developing and continuously improving the Security Assessment practice through various industry contributions and team initiatives (e.g., tool development, conference presentations, and blog posts)

  • You will actively contribute to improving operational efficiency on projects and internal initiatives

  • Deliver timely engagements and works closely with Practice Managers to drive training and education, career development, performance development, and collaboration across the team

  • In line with Optiv's commitment to quality, you will confirm that work is of the highest quality as per Optiv's quality standards, by reviewing the work provided by other members

  • Ability to manually validate vulnerabilities identified during assessments

  • Participate in capacity planning and HW specification recommendation efforts.

  • Provide knowledge transfer and post production support activities as necessary.

  • Effective team communicator.

  • Maintain professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; participating in professional associations such as ISSA.

  • Obtain and maintain top tier vendor certification.

  • Complete administrative project tasks like time and expense entry, status reporting, and project completion reporting.

What we're looking for:

  • Familiarity with command and control (C2) frameworks, such as Nighthawk, Cobalt Strike, Mythic, Covenant, etc

  • Ability to combine multiple separate findings to execute complex attacks

  • Familiarity with many different network architectures, network services, system types, network devices, development platforms and software suites required (e.g., Linux, Windows, Cisco, Oracle, Active Directory, JBoss, .NET, etc.) required

  • Must be able to work well with customers and self-manage through difficult situations, focus on client satisfaction

  • Ability to convey complex technical security concepts to technical and non-technical audiences including executives required

  • Ability to lead and mentor others; willingness to collaborate and share knowledge with team members required

  • Proven ability to review and revise reports written by peers required

  • Demonstrated effective time management skills, ability to balance multiple projects simultaneously and the ability to take on large and complex projects with little or no supervision required

  • Bachelor's degree preferred and approximately 2-5 years of related work experience

  • Three (3) years of experience performing Vulnerability Assessments, Penetration Tests, Wireless Security Assessments and/or Social Engineering to enterprise-level organizations

  • Three (3) years of experience in a consulting services role, or related information security positions

  • Ability to travel 25% of the time to client sites

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What you can expect from Optiv

  • A company committed to championing Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion through our Employee Resource Groups.
  • Work/life balance
  • Professional training resources
  • Creative problem-solving and the ability to tackle unique, complex projects
  • Volunteer Opportunities. “Optiv Chips In” encourages employees to volunteer and engage with their teams and communities.
  • The ability and technology necessary to productively work remotely/from home (where applicable)

EEO Statement

Optiv is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants for employment will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, pregnancy, age 40 and over, marital status, genetic information, national origin, status as an individual with a disability, military or veteran status, or any other basis protected by federal, state, or local law.

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Top Skills

.Net
Active Directory
Cisco
Cobalt Strike
Covenant
Jboss
Linux
Mythic
Nighthawk
Oracle
Windows

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