Junior Pentester

5 days ago


Ottawa, Canada Software Secured Full time

**What you get**:

- Annual Salary: $70000-80000
- Eligible for yearly profit sharing program bonuses
- Work from home schedule (up to 100% during COVID)
- Part of a fast-growing, exciting, and challenging environment.
- You will receive a budget for speaking at conferences and meetups.
- You will be mentored by and work closely with senior staff.
- You will receive time and a budget for training.
- You will be provided with perks such as company lunches on Thursdays.
- You will receive a great health benefits package.
- You will receive a free audible account
- You will receive a minimum of 3 weeks' vacation.

**Mandatory**:

- Share our core values (please see below).
- If pentesting experience is limited an OSCP, OSWE, or GWAPT would go a long way to closing the gap.
- Demonstrated software development background in one or more of Python,.NET, Ruby, Java, Objective C/Swift.
- You have competed in CTFs (Capture The Flags).
- Expert with OWASP Top 10 and can explain them easily.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills.
- Demonstrated analytical and problem solving skills

**Nice to Haves**:

- Experience in adjacent security related roles e.g. Secure Development/Engineering, Security Operations/SOC/Blue Teaming, Incident Response, IT Security, etc.
- Experience or security certification in cloud technologies (AWS, Azure)
- Open-source contributions
- Public speaking experience
- Performing training in a professional capacity
- Teaching experience, preferably security or CS topics

**What we care about**
- Keeping it Secure: Software Secured's mission and values are a part of everything we do. We care about how our clients can do what they do without having to worry about hackers disrupting their work.
- Curiosity and humility: We are dedicated to learning and constantly improving. We hire the best of the best, humility is the key to remain the best.
- Dive Deep: hard problems require diving deep to understand the real cause of the problem, we are not afraid of diving deep to come up with the best solutions.
- Bold: we take huge risks so our clients can minimize theirs, taking risks is part of what we do daily so we ensure the highest impact of our solutions.


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