Red Team Senior Analyst - C13/VP

The Role: 

The Vulnerability Assessments Senior Analyst - Red Team, VP will participate in the Adversary Emulation program by emulating cyber and criminal threat actors targeting Citi. The candidate will conduct Intelligence-led Red Team Testing and Penetration Testing targeting people, process, and technology. The candidate may also conduct regulatory driven Red Team Testing. To be successful in this role, the ideal candidate will have verifiable experience in executing reconnaissance and attack surface mapping techniques. 

Responsibilities 

• Support Citi’s Red, Blue, and Purple Teams during the execution of offensive security assessment operations 

• Present the outcome of Red and Purple Team Testing to senior management and support the Blue Team with remediation efforts by acting as an SME and retesting findings 

• Establish meaningful partnerships with relevant stakeholders across the enterprise is a key function of this role to build and maintain a comprehensive model of applicable, feasible threats, and risks to the business 

• Participate in advanced exploitation operations against a large global enterprise, including Red and Purple Team operations 

• Identify opportunities to automate and standardize information security controls and for the supported groups 

• Resolve any vulnerabilities or issues detected in an application or infrastructure 

• Analyze source code to mitigate identified weaknesses and vulnerabilities within the system 

• Review and validate automated testing results and prioritize actions that resolve issues based on overall risk 

• Scan and analyze applications with automated tools, and perform manual testing if necessary 

• Reduce risk by analyzing the root cause of issues, their impact, and required corrective actions 

• Direct the development and delivery of secure solutions by coordinating with business and technical contacts 

• Appropriately assess risk when making business decisions are made 

• Demonstrate particular consideration for the firm's reputation and safeguarding Citigroup, its clients and assets, by driving compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations, adhering to Policy, applying sound ethical judgment regarding personal behavior, conduct and business practices, and escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency 

Qualifications 

5+ years’ experience or equivalent knowledge and exposure are required with most of the following: 

• Assisting in attack surface management 

• Leveraging the MITRE ATT&CK Framework 

• Leading or conducting Adversary Emulations or Assumed Breach Exercises 

• Familiarity with industry Adversary Emulation Frameworks like PTES, CBEST, iCAST, GFMA 

• Knowledge of tools and processes used to expose known and undocumented vulnerabilities in various different systems 

• Leading or conducting Purple Team Testing 

• Participation in Cyber Tiger Team operations 

• Conducting Vulnerability Assessments and Penetration Testing (application and/or infrastructure) and articulating security issues to technical and non-technical audience 

• Identifying, researching, validating, and exploiting various different, known, and unknown security vulnerabilities on the server and client side 

• Red Team testing tools: Cobalt Strike, Red Team Toolkit, etc. 

• Vulnerability Assessment tools: Nessus, Qualys, etc. 

• Exploitation frameworks: Metasploit, CANVAS, Core Impact 

• Social Engineering campaigns: email phishing, phone calls, SET 

• Deep understanding of OSI model 

• Security devices: Firewalls, VPN, AAA systems 

• OS Security: Unix/Linux, Windows, OSX 

• Understanding of common protocols: HTTP, LDAP, SMTP, DNS 

• Web application infrastructure: Application Servers, Web Servers, Databases 

• Web development and programming languages: Python, Perl, Ruby, Java, .Net 

• Reporting information security vulnerabilities to the business 

Education: 

• Bachelor’s degree/University degree or equivalent experience 

• Master’s degree preferred 

• Industry-accredited security certifications highly preferred but not required (e.g. PNPT, OSCP, OSCE, GXPN, GPEN, GCIH, GWAPT, GCFA, or CISSP) 

This job description provides a high-level review of the types of work performed. Other job-related duties may be assigned as required.