Bank of America · 1 day ago
Senior Manual Ethical Hacker
Jersey City
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$160K/yr - $205K/yr
5+ years expBank of America is committed to helping make financial lives better through the power of every connection. The Senior Manual Ethical Hacker role is responsible for leading ethical hacking assessments of the bank's technologies and applications to identify vulnerabilities and report on associated risks.
Asset ManagementBankingFinanceFinancial ServicesFinTech
Responsibilities
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 to identify high-value vulnerabilities/chained attacks
Developing Proof-of-concepts for exploitation
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 managing risks
Learn and develop advanced technical and leadership skills, mentor Junior and Intermediate assessors in technical tradecraft and soft skills
Respond to security incidents and provide technical assistance to leadership across the Information Security organization
Qualification
Required
Minimum of 5+ years of professional pentesting, application security or ethical hacking experience, preferably in a large, complex, enterprise environment
Detailed technical knowledge in at least 5 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, Web APIs, Cloud environments, LLM security, Mobile application analysis
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 OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities without the use of tools
Experience performing manual code reviews for security relevant issues
Experience working with DAST and SAST tools to identify vulnerabilities
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, development frameworks, CVE and CWE research/reproduction
Threat Analysis, threat modelling and SBOM analysis
Innovative thinking, threat actor simulation
Technology Systems Assessment
Technical Documentation
Advisory
Preferred
CEH, OSCP/OSCE/OSWE/GXPN/GPEN/GWAPT/GMOB/All Practitioner Certs [Port Swigger BSP Academy]/Cloud Cert(s)/ eWPT; eWPTX; eMAPT [INE Pentester Academy]
Strong programming/scripting skills
Frida
Binary analysis (disassembly skills)
Benefits
Discretionary incentive eligible
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.
Company
Bank of America
Bank of America is a financial institution that offers credit cards, home loans, and auto loan services.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$3.59BKey Investors
Berkshire Hathaway
2025-02-20Post Ipo Debt· $386.79M
2024-11-26Post Ipo Debt· $2B
2020-07-28Post Ipo Equity· $400M
Leadership Team
Charissa Messer
Senior Vice President, Creative Agency Executive (Enterprise Creative Solutions)
Rami Salem
SVP Strategic Competitive Intelligence
Recent News
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