Lead Specialist, MAST Application Penetration Testing Manager
About the role
The KPMG Advisory practice is at the forefront of transformation, offering excellent opportunities for individuals to advance their careers and expertise with KPMG. Looking ahead, we anticipate continued evolution and success within the practice, fostering both personal and professional development, thereby creating new pathways for growth. In this ever-changing market environment, our professionals must be adaptable and thrive in a collaborative, team-driven culture. At KPMG, our people are our number one priority. With a wealth of learning and career development opportunities, a world-class training facility, and leading market tools, we help our people continue to grow both professionally and personally. If you're looking for a firm with a strong team connection where you can be your whole self, have an impact, advance your skills, deepen your experiences, and have the flexibility and access to constantly find new areas of inspiration and expand your capabilities, then consider a career in Advisory.
Responsibilities
- Provide strategic direction for application penetration testing teams to develop growth of the services solution and manage client engagements; demonstrate exceptional technical capability in application penetration testing from a manual perspective
- Lead client engagements and provide technical leadership as well as advice to team members on application penetration testing engagements
- Promote and enable thought leadership, as well as growth and learning amongst team members
- Engage with non-technical audiences around testing processes and techniques, as well as report read-outs; guide technical audiences on remediation options and assist them in weighing those options
- Partner with the Cyber teams to develop new testing techniques, automation for testing and marketing collateral to support the practice, mentor onshore and offshore team members on tools and techniques in performing testing; operate as a mentor and people leader to foster career growth amongst team members
- Act with integrity, professionalism, and personal responsibility to uphold KPMG's respectful and courteous work environment
Requirements
- Minimum five years of recent experience working with using application penetration tools to perform security tests such as AppScan, Netsparker, Acunetix, ZAP, Veracode, BurpSuite or equivalent
- Minimum five years of recent experience working with technical and non-technical audiences in reporting results and leading remediation conversations
- Minimum five years of recent experience leading application security testing teams in a consulting environment
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree from an accredited college/university or equivalent industry experience
- Possess one or more major ethical hacking certifications not required but preferred; Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), GIAC Web Application Penetration Tester (GWAPT), Council of Registered Ethical Security Testers (CREST), Offensive Security Web Expert (OSWE), Offensive Security Web Assessor (OSWA)
- Experience in one or more areas such as mobile application testing, code development, manual code analysis and/or static analysis using Veracode, Fortify, SonarQube, Checkmarx, Contrast or equivalent preferred
Skills
- Ability to travel as required
Benefits
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Company Information
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