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About this Manual Ethical Hacker role at Bank of America

Bank of America · Onsite · Denver

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.

Being a Great Place to Work is core to how we drive Responsible Growth. This includes our commitment to being an inclusive workplace, attracting and developing exceptional talent, supporting our teammates’ physical, emotional, and financial wellness, recognizing and rewarding performance, and how we make an impact in the communities we serve.

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

Pay Transparency details

US - CO - Denver - 1144 15th St - Denver Gis (CO9926), US - DC - Washington - 1800 K St NW - 1800 K Street NW (DC1842), US - IL - Chicago - 540 W Madison St - Bank Of America Plaza (IL4540)

Pay and benefits information

Pay range

$117,000.00 - $147,700.00 annualized salary, offers to be determined based on experience, education and skill set.

Discretionary incentive eligible

This role is eligible to participate in the annual discretionary plan. Employees are eligible for an annual discretionary award based on their overall individual performance results and behaviors, the performance and contributions of their line of business and/or group; and the overall success of the Company.

Benefits

This role is currently benefits eligible. We provide industry-leading benefits, access to paid time off, resources and support to our employees so they can make a genuine impact and contribute to the sustainable growth of our business and the communities we serve.
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