Offensive Security Specialist

Offensive Security Specialist

Galent is seeking a skilled Offensive Security Specialist to join their team. This role involves participating in the planning, design, and implementation of security assessments and plans, with a strong focus on adversarial simulations against AI systems.

You will work closely with the Blue Team to enhance organizational defenses, prepare comprehensive reports on attack paths and vulnerabilities, and present these findings to senior leadership. This position also involves supporting ongoing assessments by developing tools, setting up infrastructure, and automating various security tasks. Continuous research into emerging security technologies and industry trends is crucial to recommend and evaluate new security products.

Primary Responsibilities

• Participate in the planning, design, and implementation of security assessments and plans.
• Perform full-scope adversarial simulation/red team assessments against AI systems.
• Collaborate with the Blue Team to develop new and improved defense mechanisms for the organization.
• Prepare detailed reports containing attack paths, findings/vulnerability information, and mitigation options and recommendations.
• Present findings to various stakeholders, including the most senior leadership of the company.
• Provide support during ongoing assessments by writing tools and setting up infrastructure.
• Create automation for specific security tasks and operations.
• Research, investigate, and evaluate emerging technologies, industry trends, best practices, and vendor solutions to recommend and assess various security products.

Required Qualifications

• 1 or more relevant information security certification(s) such as OSCP, OSCE, GPEN, GXPN.
• 6+ years total experience in information security or IT discipline.
• 2+ years of hands-on work experience conducting red team operations.
• 2+ years of experience with scripting, editing existing code, and general programming concepts using one or more of the following: PowerShell, JavaScript, Perl, Python, VB, bash, C/C++, C#, or Java.
• Understanding of AI/ML algorithms and architectures.
• Experience implementing cyber adversarial TTPs.
• Experience in testing and assessing cloud environments.
• Experience with blue team tools and methods.
• Knowledge of security testing standards or frameworks, such as the MITRE ATLAS Framework.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience working in complex, diverse, and global (international) environments.
• Adversarial mindset and critical thinking skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in other IT functions - system administration, software development, SOC, forensics, hunt, networking.
• Experience with using, administering, and troubleshooting major operating systems (Windows, Linux/UNIX).

Key skills/competency

• Red Teaming
• Penetration Testing
• AI Security
• Adversarial Simulation
• Vulnerability Assessment
• Scripting
• Cloud Security
• Cyber TTPs
• Security Research
• Communication Skills