Palo Alto Sr Staff Offensive Security Engineer InfoSec 

United States, California 

175347324

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Your Career

Our Information Security organization is seeking a creative Senior Staff Red Team Engineer with a penchant for critical analysis to join our Offensive Security team. The Red Team’s objective is to proactively identify and mitigate risk to improve the enterprise security posture. In this role, you will participate in Red Team engagements that will force you to think outside the box to identify weaknesses, vulnerabilities, and misconfigurations that real-world threat actors may try to leverage. You will be required to develop tooling and build infrastructure to execute tactics, techniques, and procedures which can be used to evade security products, in support of covert operations.

Your Impact

• Develop payloads and attack tools which bypass security controls for use in covert operations

  Execute Red Team operations to highlight gaps impacting enterprise security posture and readiness

  Simulate real-world attacks that are relevant to the business

  Deliver detailed reports of technical findings to stakeholders and assist with the development of mitigation plans

  Deliver executive technical outbriefs to leadership across the organization

  Assist with security investigations, root-cause analysis and corrective measures as required

Your Experience

• 6+ years cyber security experience with minimum 2-4 years experience leading covert end-to-end Red Team engagements

  Experience crafting social engineering campaigns and establishing initial access in a mature environment with a complex technology stack

  Experience developing payloads across languages and platforms while evading endpoint and network security products

  Experience with various command and control frameworks, across a variety of platforms and environments

  Must have the ability to perform targeted attacks with or without the use of automated tools

  Expertise in executing a wide array of adversarial tactics, techniques, and procedures

  Experience performing adversarial simulation

  Experience in conducting surreptitious on-premise and cloud based attacks

  Excellent written and verbal communication skills

  Ability to establish priorities, work independently and proceed with objectives

  Must be well organized and able to leverage best practices, able to thrive in fast-paced environment, and, most importantly, have the ability to approach problems with an innovative, can-do attitude

  Certifications like OSCP/OSCE, CRTP, CRTO/CRTL are nice to have

Compensation Disclosure

The compensation offered for this position will depend on qualifications, experience, and work location. For candidates who receive an offer at the posted level, the starting base salary (for non-sales roles) or base salary + commission target (for sales/commissioned roles) is expected to be between $146000 - $237500YR. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found .

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.