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JOB DESCRIPTION
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Position: Penetration Engineer
Location: McLean, Virginia, United States
Type: Permanent F/T
Closing Date: 2006-09-09
Job Responsibilities:
This position is for a Network Penetration Engineer who will work at a Big Four
consulting office in northern Virginia. The employee will perform a range of
technical duties related to IT security in the US Intelligence Community (IC)
and for Federal Civilian and Defense clients. Duties include:
• Vulnerability assessments and security scans against hosts/systems and
internal and external networks, including network discovery.
• Penetration testing against development and production networks and
systems.
• Creation of test plans and test procedures.
• Security testing and analysis of software applications and operating
systems.
• Installation, configuration, and operation of vulnerability scanning
and test tools.
• Collation and documentation of test results, including
discussion/presentation to clients.
• Recommendation of countermeasures and remediation techniques to
eliminate vulnerabilities.
JOB REQUIREMENTS
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Required Education:
Bachelor’s degree in computer science (or computer- or network-related
studies) or demonstrable job experience.
Required Skills:
• Detailed, working knowledge of vulnerability scanning techniques/tools,
including the ability install configure and operate third-party vulnerability
discovery tools (for example NESSUS, Nikto, Nmap, ISS Security Scanner,
Metasploit, Canvas, etc.)
• Working knowledge of common vulnerabilities in major operating systems
(UNIX, Windows, etc) and ability to follow emergence of new vulnerabilities and
exploitation techniques, OR working knowledge of network protocols and network
level vulnerability trends.
• Technical specialization in at least one of the following: Windows,
Solaris, Linux, Databases, Routers/Firewalls)
Demonstrable ability to identify and apply vulnerability exploitation
techniques.
CONTACT
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Please email your resume and salary requirements to Paris Pittman at
ppittman@talentshipinc.com or you can apply online at
http://www.talentshipinc.com.
TalentShip, Inc.
Paris Pittman
ppittman@talentshipinc.com
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