Offensive Security Engineer

**At Cisco, we know that technology can connect, empower, and drive us. Our mission is to simplify technology so our customers can focus on what's most important to them: their students, patients, customers, and businesses. We're making networking easier, faster, and intelligent with technology that simply works.

The modern world runs on the internet, and the internet cannot exist without its underlying infrastructure. Cisco makes setting up, running, and maintaining that infrastructure easier than it has ever been before. Cisco enables connectivity everywhere from neighborhood cafes to education institutions to global hospitality groups operating thousands of sites.

We are passionate about building real products that our customers love. As a member of our offensive security team, you will be a key member of a team that finds, and helps fix vulnerabilities in our products, services, and enterprise. Also, we will have a substantial impact on the security of millions of Cisco users all around the world. We work individually and in small teams to test several new products each year.

At Cisco, teams work on an exciting array of groundbreaking technologies from artificial intelligence & machine learning to desktop agents, to container orchestration in the cloud and within IoT device firmware. We believe on encouraging a positive culture by hiring, mentoring, and empowering smart, effective, low ego people and providing equal opportunities for all employees to thrive. With the support of management, we constantly look within for ways to improve organizationally. We maintain a positive relationship with Cisco that gives us the stability and innovative resources of a larger company to change cloud-based networking as we know it. We are confident you will love it here

As a Offensive Security Engineer, you will:**

• Perform penetration testing on product solutions, and code reviews of our product offerings.
• Lead security assessments and penetration tests
• Work with engineers and leaders to help prioritize and remediate vulnerabilities
• Collaborate with software engineers across product teams to refine the security of our product technologies and deployment practices
• Provide guidance and training to internal teams and partners on security standards

You are an ideal candidate if:

• A security-minded and hardworking person who has a strong focus on penetration testing and vulnerability assessments
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or 5+ years of related work experience
• 2+ yrs of confirmed experience in hardware security, embedded system penetration testing, authentication and security protocols.
• Demonstrated familiarity with:
• OWASP Web Security Testing Guide (WSTG)
• OWASP IoT Security Testing Guide (ISTG)
• Penetration Testing Execution Standard (PTES)
• Strong communication skills, particularly written communication

Bonus points for:

• Have experience performing source code-enabled security assessments and adjacency analysis in C/C++, Golang, Rust, and Ruby.
• A strong proficiency in using and navigation Linux systems.
• Familiar with hardware injection attacks like EMFI
• Confident with secure development lifecycle practices such as security requirements, architecture review, threat modeling, code review, SAST, DAST etc

Cisco is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, genetic information, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected basis. Cisco will consider for employment, on a case by case basis, qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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