NASA IV&V Vulnerability Researcher & Exploit Developer - Military veterans preferred

Description

The successful candidate will learn to work independently and as a member of a team in one or more of these IV&V projects or other IV&V Program functional areas.  Responsibilities includes simulating real-life cyber attacks with the goal of helping an organization improve its security posture. This is a highly technical hands-on role that will utilize development/programming, live testing, system administration, reverse engineering, vulnerability assessments, system/network hardening, penetration testing and ultimately creativity skills. It is an opportunity for a team player to enhance a world-class team and learn/teach new skills.

Daily Responsibilities:

• Experience conducting advance host/network/application penetration testing as a member of a technical team on live/operational systems

• Perform reverse engineering and static/dynamic test of desktop/web applications to find security flaws like zero-day vulnerabilities

• Review custom applications source code for security flaws and vulnerabilities

• Perform full-scope penetration test activities like zero-day discovery, exploit development and exploitation of vulnerabilities on operational network infrastructure devices, services, various operating systems and desktop/web applications

• Test the exploitation of security policies and access controls in restricted/secure environments (e.g. GPO bypass, privilege escalation and A/V evasion)

• Capable of doing the necessary research and development to produce TTPs and products (e.g. exploits, applications, etc.) to achieve systems exploitation

• Be able to review, modify and develop software programs or scripts in Assembly, C++, C#, VBS, Python, Perl, Ruby, PowerShell, Bash, JavaScript, Java, PHP and other languages for systems/applications exploitation, data analysis, systems configuration and task automation

• Work extensively from the Windows and UNIX/Linux command line (e.g. Bash and PowerShell)

• Able to test, identify and exploit vulnerabilities in web applications without the use of scanning tools

• Informed in current information security threats, trends and vulnerabilities

• Research and formulate recommendations for vulnerabilities

• Employ extensive use of Microsoft Office main tools: Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Visio to prepare plans, reports, diagrams, tables, briefings, etc.

• Be able to present, demonstrate, explain and document operational impact of a particular vulnerability or the combination of many vulnerabilities and flaws

• Develop proof-of-concept examples and scenarios for reports and live demonstrations

• Create/document tactic, techniques and procedures (TTP) to train and expand/share knowledge with customers and other team members

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