CENSUS is an internationally acclaimed Cybersecurity services
provider. We support the needs of multiple industries, providing IT and
OT security services to public and private organizations around the
world, ranging from financial institutions and critical infrastructure
to automotive and secure communications, including Fortune 500
companies. Powered by cutting-edge research, scientific analysis and
in-depth engineering experience across various industries &
technologies, CENSUS delivers unparalleled security consulting &
assessment services for products (software, services, devices, and
large-scale platforms), infrastructure, and organizations.
Learn more about CENSUS at census-labs.com.
About the Job / Key Responsibilities:
CENSUS’
bespoke cybersecurity services are built upon a talented pool of
Security Engineers, whose role extends beyond mere adherence to industry
best practices. Under the management and mentorship of our Technical
Leads and Technical Project Managers, our Senior Security Engineers are
entrusted with assessing the completeness and maturity of an extensive
range of cybersecurity products and features. Along with capturing
defects and inefficiencies, in-depth mitigation strategies are explored,
presented, and re-evaluated post their integration, in a highly agile
and adaptive service delivery model.
We are looking for talented & ambitious professionals to grow our Product Security Professional Services
team and join our ongoing mission to deliver in-depth and top-tier
cybersecurity services to our valued clients. As part of this role, you
will use your knowledge and experience - in the Application Security domain
– to execute design reviews, implementation assessments and mitigation
consulting activities scoped across products of various industries. You
will work side-by-side with our clients’ development and security teams
& partners, under engagements / projects that involve:
- Reviewing product security designs, documenting missing security controls, and driving analysis for security improvements.
- Executing
and reviewing threat modelling, attack surface enumeration and attack
tree creation activities for products running on cloud platforms.
- Researching,
reviewing, comparing, and proposing technologies that can satisfy the
client’s established requirements, and aligning with their strategies.
- Executing
end-to-end security posture assessments for mobile, web and special
purpose applications via source code auditing, functional testing, fuzz
testing and other applicable methodologies.
- Validating CI/CD
pipelines and auditing deployment configurations across various hosting
environment models (native, hybrid, etc.).
- Verifying if output implementation is aligned with the products’ security architecture, requirements, and threat model.
- Documenting and presenting product security risks in both technical- and business-oriented language.
- Support
a small team (2-3) of security engineers and consultants to
successfully assess and research bleeding edge technologies and
products.
Minimum Qualifications:
- MSc or BSc. in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
- 4+ years of experience
in application security (mobile, web front-end, backend, full-stack,
special purpose applications, etc.) related roles. Experience can be an
engineering / development position (e.g., consumer or enterprise), an
assessment / consultancy role, an equivalent role in other engineering
organizations, or a combination of them.
- Proven experience in developing, auditing, or testing security solutions at the application level for mobile, web / cloud, embedded / IoT or special purpose computing platforms.
Key Skills:
- Experience
with assessing and researching mobile (iOS & Android) or web /
cloud platform security architecture and engaged technologies.
- Experience
with performing design-level security reviews and verify that output
implementation is aligned with the design and input threat models.
- Experience
in reading & comprehending source code, discerning business logic
pitfalls, and identifying security flaws in at least one of the
following groups of languages:
o Mobile-relevant, such as Swift, Obj-C, Kotlin, Java, Dart, and JavaScript.
o Web- and Cloud-relevant, such as Java, Ruby, Rust, Go, Python, PHP, C#, Lua, and JavaScript.
o Native- and IoT-relevant, such as C and C++.
- Experience
with application authentication, authorization, identity, access
management, and secrets management technologies, such as OAuth, MFA,
SSO, JWT, PKI, Cloud IAM, Password-less authentication, HashiCorp Vault,
etc.
- Experience with applied cryptography and cryptographic
protocols, such as E2E protection, authenticated encryption, mTLS, Key
Exchange / Agreement, Key Derivation, Key Wrapping and Remote Key
Attestation.
- Experience in identifying and reporting security
vulnerabilities on software running on web or mobile platforms (OWASP
Web / Mobile Top10 vulnerabilities, data encryption, transport layer
protections, insecure configurations, secrets management, etc.).
- Familiarity with debugging, instrumenting, and profiling software running on edge or server / cloud platforms.
- Familiarity
with Zero Trust architectures, confidential computing, virtualization,
enclaves, containers, and attestation technologies.
- Familiarity with application reverse engineering or fuzz testing methods.
- Experience of working with international teams in other regions and time zones worldwide.
- Problem solving skills, analytical thinking, and willingness to learn/grow.
- Proficient in English and excellent communication skills.
- Hybrid work is possible but with ability to travel
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