Cyber Testing Associate - Summer 2027

About the role

We are currently looking for technical Consultants for our Cyber Risk and Data Protection practice. The candidate will work with teams of security and privacy staff in a wide variety of systems environments. Our Cyber Consulting team serves the Information Security and Data Privacy related needs of our clients. This team assists clients with selecting, improving, controlling, securing, managing and monitoring the appropriate systems to address their information needs.

Responsibilities

• Assess security of client networks, hosts, and applications
• Determine technical, business impact and likelihood of identified security issues and provide remediation guidance to clients
• Perform analysis and testing to verify the strengths and weaknesses of mobile and web applications and web services (SOAP, WSDL, UDDI)
• Perform Internet penetration testing using blackbox and whitebox methodologies
• Review application code, system configurations and device configurations using manual and automated techniques
• Measure and report clients’ compliance with established industry or government requirements
• Identify leaked client data on open and closed (Deep and Dark Web) sources
• Perform analytical investigations into specific threat actors, ransomware, and campaigns
• Communicate technical findings to a non-technical audience effectively
• Create and review threat intelligence programs for clients using established intelligence models

Requirements

• Proven track record of an analytical and curious mindset in problem solving
• The ability to interpret and convey technical information through written and oral communications to all levels of technical aptitude, including senior management
• A high degree of integrity and confidentiality, as well as ability to adhere to company policies and best practices

Qualifications

• Minimum B.A. or B.S. degree or equivalent from an accredited university by the time employment commences with a major in Computer Science, Information Technology, Information Systems Management, Information Security, intelligence, digital forensics, cybersecurity or other similar degrees
• Technical background in computer science and cybersecurity related fields
• Strong knowledge of computer network technologies, protocols/topologies, digital forensics and endpoint protection, or threat intelligence
• Software development, programming and/or scripting experience (Perl, Python, C, Java, PHP, ASP, etc.)
• Ability to track threat actors across Dark Web criminal forums and ability to communicate findings
• Basic understanding of intelligence, including intelligence lifecycle, Kill Chain, Diamond model, and Priority Intelligence

Skills

• Practical hands-on or lab experience with IT infrastructure components such as servers, firewalls, IDS systems and other network infrastructure components
• Practical hands-on or lab experience with security applications, such as AppScan, Metasploit, BurbSuite, Nessus, Social Engineering Toolkit, Kali Linux, etc., or other commercial and public domain security tools
• Operating system configuration and security experience (HP-UX, Linux, Solaris, AIX, etc.)
• Configuration and security experience with web servers and web applications (Apache HTTP/Tomcat, Microsoft IIS, Sun One, Oracle iPlanet, IBM WebSphere, etc.)
• Database Configuration and Security experience (MySQL, Microsoft SQL, IBM DB2, Sybase, Oracle, etc.)
• Familiar with security testing techniques such as network discovery, port and service identification, vulnerability scanning, network sniffing, fuzzing, penetration testing, configuration reviews, firewall rule reviews, social engineering, wireless penetration testing and password cracking

Benefits

We offer a competitive benefits and compensation package for all our people. We offer flexibility in your schedule, empowering you to balance life’s demands, while also maintaining your ability to serve clients. Learn more about our total rewards at https://rsmus.com/careers/working-at-rsm/benefits.