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Job description: Web Applications Pen-testerPosition Summary:

Software Architecture Division (SARD) is looking for a motivated, creative and experienced web application penetration tester.

Product security group in SARD has been providing defensive and offensive security testing services since 2012. We do security assessments for different Sony products such as PlayStation, consumer electronics (CE) and professional solutions many of each you can found on the official Sony site.

SARD primarily works on core technologies that are used in Sony products and services as part of Sony India Software Centre located in Bangalore.

We help Sony entities finding vulnerabilities before their products are released to the market by looking at them from a skilled human attacker point of view. We know how the attackers think and what tools they use. Our assessments are 90% manual, but we use different automation techniques (e.g., fuzzers) helping us to identify suspicious areas for future investigations.

We are looking for an experienced hands-on web penetration tester. In this role, the new team member will focus on testing and evaluating the security of web applications and APIs. It includes creating and executing a pen-testing plan, reporting the found vulnerabilities and providing recommendations how to fix them.

The team is also responsible for organizing the cumulated knowledge about existing vulnerabilities and potential threats on specific targets.

Tools are developed as part of the execution and automation of the research process.

Finally, the team closely collaborates with colleagues in Sony Brussels Laboratory, who have been providing a wide range of offensive security services inside Sony for the last 10 years.

In general, the following activities are expected to be executed by the new team member:

• Hands on penetration testing
• Development of helper security verification tools
• Performing security design reviews of web applications, network/cloud deployments
• Security code reviews of web applications and/or web APIs
• Writing clear vulnerability reports and provide guidance to the development teams on fixing the security issues
• Documentation of knowledge and findings in the form of guidelines, checklists and examples to be used by development teams
• Own the project from the beginning to the end

Job Start and Duration

Job start is ASAP. We are interested in both permanent and temporary contracts. For the temporary type of contract we are interested to keep the hired security researcher longer if we are happy with the performance.

Profile

The candidate needs to have the following qualifications:

• Strong hands-on penetration skills
• Deep knowledge of web technologies (HTML5, Java, JavaScript, Tomcat, etc.)
• Deep knowledge of application security mechanisms such as authentication and authorization techniques, data validation, output sanitization/encoding and proper use of encryption
• Excellent understanding of web applications, web browsers, web servers and frameworks
• Experience with common penetration testing tools, including Burp Suite, Nessus, sqlmap, Nmap, Wireshark
• Good knowledge of network protocols and network protection techniques (firewalls, filtering, other) and methods for bypassing them
• Deep knowledge of web service technologies such as: WebSockets, SOAP, REST, JSON, XML, etc., as well as deep knowledge of WebService security schemes: OAuth, SAML, etc.
• Good working knowledge of at least one of these scripting languages or frameworks: Python, Ruby, NodeJS, PHP
• Working knowledge of basic cryptographic principles: symmetric/asymmetric encryption, PKI, etc.
• Experience with fuzzing and security code review
• Knowledge of multiple RDBMS systems: MySQL , PostgreSQL, ORACLE, etc.
• Excellent analytical skills and ability to think out of the box
• Experience with both Linux and Windows OS
• Strong command of English
• Good communication and writing skills

Experience in the following topics is desirable:

• Experience with AWS (including serverless architectures), GCP, MS Azure
• Mobile application security