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Red Team / Offensive Security Analyst

TekWissen LLC
  • New York, NY
  • $67.85
  • Instant Apply
1 day ago

Job Description

Overview:
TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. Our client is an American multinational information technology services and consulting company and is a leading provider of information technology, consulting, and business process outsourcing services, dedicated helping the world's leading companies build stronger businesses.
Job Title: Red Team / Offensive Security Analyst
Location: New York, NY
Duration: 6 Months
Job Type: Temporary Assignment
Work Type: Hybrid

Job Description:

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Responsible for simulating cyberattacks on systems, networks, and applications to identify vulnerabilities before malicious actors can exploit them.

1. Security Testing & Assessments

  • Conduct penetration testing on:
    • Web applications
    • Network and infrastructure
    • Desktops/Servers Linux and Windows
    • APIs, cloud environments, and mobile apps
  • Perform vulnerability assessments using automated tools and manual techniques
  • Simulate real-world cyberattacks to evaluate system resilience

2. Exploitation & Analysis

  • Identify and exploit weaknesses in systems and applications
  • Analyze security flaws, misconfigurations, and insecure code
  • Test authentication systems, access controls, and network defenses
  • Identify exploitable credentials and attack paths

3. Reporting & Documentation

  • Document all findings, methodologies, and evidence of vulnerabilities
  • Prepare detailed technical and executive reports
  • Communicate risks and remediation recommendations to stakeholders

4. Remediation & Security Improvement

  • Recommend solutions to address identified security gaps and vulnerabilities
  • Work with development and infrastructure teams to implement fixes
  • Validate remediation through re-testing and follow-ups

5. Tooling & Automation

  • Use security tools such as:
    • Metasploit
    • Nmap
    • Burp Suite
    • Kali
    • Vulnerability Scanners
    • Pentera Console and Surface
  • Develop scripts (Python, Bash) to automate testing processes
  • Design custom exploits and testing methodologies

6. Continuous Learning & Threat Research

  • Stay updated on:
    • Emerging threats
    • Exploitation techniques
    • Security vulnerabilities (OWASP, CVEs)
  • Research new attack vectors and penetration testing techniques

7. Collaboration & Advisory

  • Work with:
    • Security teams
    • Developers
    • IT operations and/or Infrastructure Teams
  • Educate teams on secure coding and security best practices
  • Support compliance, audits, and risk assessments

Years of Experience:

  • 14 Years of Experience

TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.

Numbers & Facts

LocationNew York, NY
IndustryComputer/IT Services
Salary$67.85
Company Size100 to 499 employees
Year Founded2009
Websitehttp://www.tekwissen.com/

About Company

WE THE TEKWISSEN PEOPLE

TekWissen offers you a broader portfolio of services, industry-leading solutions, and the meaningful innovations that give you greater flexibility and speed to respond to market dynamics, reduced costs and risk to improve enterprise performance, and increased productivity to enable growth.

To keep pace with global market demands, TekWissen keeps its finger on the pulse of change. Our organized approach to guiding a project from its inception to closure. Managing projects is becoming more and more important as we enter the digital era. To cope with the pace that this transition demands, a method is required to manage projects so they can yield quality work, while incorporating efficient use of time and resources.

Project involves identifying which quality standards are relevant to the project and determining how to satisfy them.

It is important to perform quality planning during the Planning Process and should be done alongside the other project planning processes because changes in the quality will likely require changes in the other planning processes, or the desired product quality may require a detailed risk analysis of an identified problem. It is important to remember that quality should be planned, designed, then built in, not added on after the fact.

Capabilities and accomplishments in one TekWissen business enhance the opportunity for success in the others. Put simply, TekWissen's unique combination of attributes promotes success.



Skills

  • Access Controlunmatched
  • Application Programming Interface (API)unmatched
  • Authenticationunmatched
  • Automationunmatched
  • Bash Scriptingunmatched
  • Business Process Outsourcingunmatched
  • Business Servicesunmatched
  • Cloud Computingunmatched
  • Computer Securityunmatched
  • Consultingunmatched
  • Desktop PCunmatched
  • Information Technology & Information Systemsunmatched
  • Information Technology Consultingunmatched
  • Linux Operating Systemunmatched
  • Machine Toolunmatched
  • Metasploitunmatched
  • Microsoft Windows Serverunmatched
  • Mobile Applicationsunmatched
  • NMapunmatched
  • Penetration Testingunmatched
  • Problem Solving Skillsunmatched
  • Python Programming/Scripting Languageunmatched
  • Quality Assurance Methodologyunmatched
  • Risk Analysisunmatched
  • Scripting (Scripting Languages)unmatched
  • Security Analysisunmatched
  • Test Automationunmatched
  • Testingunmatched
  • Vulnerability Scannersunmatched
  • Workforce Managementunmatched

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