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Senior Manual Ethical Hacker

Denver, Colorado;Seattle, Washington; Jacksonville, Florida; Addison, Texas; Jersey City, New Jersey; Boston, Massachusetts; Charlotte, North Carolina; Chicago, Illinois

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Job Description:

At Bank of America, we are guided by a common purpose to help make financial lives better through the power of every connection. Responsible Growth is how we run our company and how we deliver for our clients, teammates, communities and shareholders every day.

One of the keys to driving Responsible Growth is being a great place to work for our teammates around the world. We're devoted to being a diverse and inclusive workplace for everyone. We hire individuals with a broad range of backgrounds and experiences and invest heavily in our teammates and their families by offering competitive benefits to support their physical, emotional, and financial well-being.

Bank of America believes both in the importance of working together and offering flexibility to our employees. We use a multi-faceted approach for flexibility, depending on the various roles in our organization.

Working at Bank of America will give you a great career with opportunities to learn, grow and make an impact, along with the power to make a difference. Join us!

Job Description:

Manual Ethical Hacking is part of the Application Development Security Framework Program within Bank of America's Cyber Security Assurance Offensive Security group. The program provides services to assess the security resilience of the bank's applications to malicious hacking activity.

This senior technical role is responsible performing and leading ethical hacking assessments of the bank's technologies, applications, and cyber security controls while adapting testing methods to evolving and emerging threats. Key responsibilities include leading and performing research, understanding the bank's security policies, working with appropriate partners to complete assessments and simulations, identifying misconfigurations and vulnerabilities, and reporting on associated risk. These individuals partner closely with security partners, CIO clients and multiples lines of business. These individuals are expected to perform application security-oriented dynamic and static assessments across a multitude of technologies including web UI, web APIs, mobile and cloud, including associated source code.

Key Responsibilities In Order Of Importance:

  • Perform assigned analysis of internal and external threats on information systems and predict future threat behavior.
  • Incorporate threat actors' tactics, techniques, and procedures into offensive security testing to identify high-value vulnerabilities/chained attacks.
  • Developing Proof-of-concepts for exploitation.
  • Perform assessments of the security, effectiveness, and practicality of multiple technology systems.
  • Leverage innovative thinking to help solve problems or introduce new ideas to processes or products applicable to offensive security.
  • Prepare and present detailed technical information for various media including documents, reports, and notifications.
  • Provide clear and practical advice regarding managing risks.
  • Learn and develop advanced technical and leadership skills, mentor Junior and Intermediate assessors in technical tradecraft and soft skills.
  • Respond to security incidents and provide technical assistance to leadership across the Information Security organization.


Required Skills:

  • Minimum of 5+ years of professional pentesting, application security or ethical hacking experience, preferably in a large, complex, enterprise environment
  • Detailed technical knowledge in at least 5 of the following areas:
  • security engineering
  • application architecture
  • authentication and security protocols
  • application session management
  • applied cryptography
  • common communication protocols
  • mobile frameworks
  • single sign-on technologies
  • exploit automation platforms
  • Web APIs
  • Cloud environments
  • LLM security
  • Able to manually identify and reproduce findings, discuss remediation concepts, develop PoCs for vulnerabilities, use scripting/coding techniques, proficiently execute common penetration testing tools, triage, and support incidents, and produce high value findings
  • Experience performing manual web application assessments i.e., must be able to simulate a OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities without the use of tools
  • Experience performing manual code reviews for security relevant issues
  • Experience working with DAST and SAST tools to identify vulnerabilities
  • Knowledge of network and Web related protocols/technologies (e.g., UNIX/LINUX, TCP/IP, Cookies)
  • Experience with vulnerability assessment tools and penetration testing techniques.
  • Solid programming/debugging skills, development frameworks, CVE and CWE research/reproduction
  • Threat Analysis, threat modelling and SBOM analysis
  • Innovative thinking, threat actor simulation
  • Technology Systems Assessment
  • Technical Documentation
  • Advisory


Desired:

  • CEH, OSCP/OSCE/OSWE/GXPN/GPEN/GWAPT/GMOB/All Practitioner Certs [Port Swigger BSP Academy]/Cloud Cert(s)/ eWPT; eWPTX; eMAPT [INE Pentester Academy]
  • Strong programming/scripting skills


This job will be open and accepting applications for a minimum of seven days from the date it was posted.

Shift:

1st shift (United States of America)

Hours Per Week:

40

Bank of America and its affiliates consider for employment and hire qualified candidates without regard to race, religious creed, religion, color, sex, sexual orientation, genetic information, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, protected veteran or disability status or any factor prohibited by law, and as such affirms in policy and practice to support and promote the concept of equal employment opportunity, in accordance with all applicable federal, state, provincial and municipal laws. The company also prohibits discrimination on other bases such as medical condition, marital status or any other factor that is irrelevant to the performance of our teammates.

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Bank of America aims to create a workplace free from the dangers and resulting consequences of illegal and illicit drug use and alcohol abuse. Our Drug-Free Workplace and Alcohol Policy ("Policy") establishes requirements to prevent the presence or use of illegal or illicit drugs or unauthorized alcohol on Bank of America premises and to provide a safe work environment.

Bank of America is committed to an in-office culture with specific requirements for office-based attendance and which allows for an appropriate level of flexibility for our teammates and businesses based on role-specific considerations. Should you be offered a role with Bank of America, your hiring manager will provide you with information on the in-office expectations associated with your role. These expectations are subject to change at any time and at the sole discretion of the Company. To the extent you have a disability or sincerely held religious belief for which you believe you need a reasonable accommodation from this requirement, you must seek an accommodation through the Bank's required accommodation request process before your first day of work.

This communication provides information about certain Bank of America benefits. Receipt of this document does not automatically entitle you to benefits offered by Bank of America. Every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of this communication. However, if there are discrepancies between this communication and the official plan documents, the plan documents will always govern. Bank of America retains the discretion to interpret the terms or language used in any of its communications according to the provisions contained in the plan documents. Bank of America also reserves the right to amend or terminate any benefit plan in its sole discretion at any time for any reason.

If you have questions about this posting, please contact [email protected]
Posted 2025-11-09

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