Purple team Engineer (Offensive & Defensive)

Manhattan, New York, United States (Hybrid)

One of the leading Trading firms in New York is currently expanding its team and looking for a Purple team Engineer (Offensive & Defensive).
Areas of Strength: Tool deployment, Scripting, Incident Response, Penetration Testing & Red Team

Key responsibilities:

• Engineer / administer security infrastructure to optimize efficiency/ expand capabilities
• You are a specialist that knows how to exploit discovered flaws/ remediate
• Develop / implement automated systems (python / bash)
• Red Team: simulation exercises
• Incident Response: Continuous assessment around the effectiveness of defense response.
• Penetration testing

Areas of experience

• Lifecycle and models including Cyber Kill Chain and MITRE ATT&CK framework.
• Unix / Linux environments, with knowledge of commands & shell.
• Scripting / development capability a must (python/bash)
• Working knowledge of JIRA / Confluence
• Experience of cyber threats in the cryptocurrency/ DeFi / Blockchain
• Experience with SIEM technologies, threat hunting, monitoring, and investigations.

To be successful in this role you will have

• 7 years of relevant experience in Cyber Security as a hands-on Security Engineer (Red offensive security & Blue defensive security)
• Bachelor / Masters of Engineering in Computer Science / Information Security / Cyber Security
• Expertise: python, bash, C, C++, cryptography, reverse engineering, wireless networks, common web vulnerabilities (SQLi, XSS, CSRF), exploit development.
• Strong experience with security applications utilized for logging, packet capture, email, directory services, web, authentication, remote access, and encryption.
• Network and security and tools, including IDS/IPS, NAC,DLP, VPN, firewall management and audit, endpoint, anti-malware, database audit, and monitoring
• Solid experience with secure architecture design.
• Cloud security deployment and controls.

Language English
The candidate must be US citizens, or Green cardholders

You will be part of a very diverse team that is highly collaborative, with the ability to build relationships with colleagues from different cultures throughout the organization.

Diversity & Inclusion, LGBTQ+