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Principal Consultant - Attack & Penetration | Remote, USA - a0f4f4c6-8883-491b-b6db-a07655c1a9e4-2690
Principal Consultant - Attack & Penetration | Remote, USA - a0f4f4c6-8883-491b-b6db-a07655c1a9e4-2690-July 2024
Kansas City
Jul 26, 2025
About Principal Consultant - Attack & Penetration | Remote, USA - a0f4f4c6-8883-491b-b6db-a07655c1a9e4-2690

  This job was posted by https://www.kansasworks.com : For moreinformation, please see: https://www.kansasworks.com/jobs/12812010 Howyou\'ll make an impact:

  - - Able to solo deliver or act as \"point\" for complex projects. - Acts as technical escalation point to assist other consultants. - Leverage cutting-edge techniques, tools, and procedures (TTPs), to covertly compromise clients. - Leverage cloud-based assets to execute targeted assessments. - Creatively use identified vulnerabilities across a client\'s entire security posture (logical, physical, social) to demonstrate meaningful risks to clients based on industry and business focus. - Create comprehensive assessment reports that clearly identify root cause and remediation strategies. - Interface with client personnel to gather information, clarify scope and investigate security controls. - Execute projects using established methodology, tools, and documentation. - Collaborate with other team members and practices to complete client projects and practice contributions. - Provide support in the ongoing development of security assessment offerings through tool creation and process improvement. - Perform other duties as assigned. - Participate in industry conferences to include delivering presentations.

  What we\'re looking for:

  - - Four (4) years of experience performing Vulnerability Assessments, Penetration Tests, Wireless Security Assessments and/or Social Engineering to enterprise-level organizations. - Four (4) years of experience in a consulting services role, or related information security positions. - Ability to travel 25-40% of the time to client sites. - Certifications such as OSEE, OSEP, OSCP, OSCE, OSEE, CREST CRT, GIAC (GXPN, GWAPT, GPEN, GMOB) others are highly desired. - Bachelor\'s Degree from a four-year college or university in Information Assurance, Computer Science, Management Information Systems, or related area of study; or related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience strongly preferred. - Familiarity with command and control (C2) frameworks, such as Nighthawk, Cobalt Strike, Mythic, Covenant, etc. - Familiarity with evasive techniques for social engineering, C2, and post-exploitation. - Passion for creating tools and automation to make common tasks more efficient preferred. - Knowledge of programming and scripting for development of security tools preferred. - Ability to combine multiple separate findings to execute complex attacks. - Ability to manually validate vulnerabilities identified during assessments. - Ability to identify, describe and report vulnerabilities and standard remediation activities, to include clear demonstration of risk to clients through post-exploitation activities required. - Familiarity with many different network architectures, network services, system types, network devices, development platforms and software suites required (e.g., Linux, Windows, Cisco, Oracle, Active Directory, JBoss, .NET, etc.) required. - Motivation to contribute to the infosec community (speaking, publishing, tooling/research) preferred. - Demonstrated ability to create comprehensive assessment reports required. - Must be able to work well with customers and self-manage through difficult situations, focus on client satisfaction. - Ability to convey complex technical security concepts to technical and non-technical audiences including executives required. - Ability to le d and mentor others; willingness to collaborate and share knowledge with team members required. - Proven ability to review and revise reports written by peers required. - Demonstrated effective time management skills, ability to balance multiple projects simultaneously and the ability to take on large and complex projects with little or no supervision required. - #LI-NA1

  If you are seeking a culture that supports growth, fosters success, andmoves the industry forward, find your place at Optiv! As amarket-leading provider of cyber security solutions, Optiv has the mostcomprehensive ecosystem of security products and partners to deliverunparalleled services. Our rich and successful history with our clientsis based on trust, serving more than 12,000 clients of varying sizes andindustries, including commercial, government, and education. We have theproven expertise to plan, build, and run successful security programsacross Risk Management, Cyber Digital Transformation, Threat Management,Security Operations - Managed Services, and Identity and DataManagement.

  What you can expect from Optiv

  A company committed to championing Diversity, Equality, and Inclusionthrough our Affinity groups including, Black Employee Network, DisabledEmployee Network, Latino Employee Network, Optiv Pride (LGBTQIA+),Veterans Support Network, and Women\'s Network.

  Work/life balance.

  Pr

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