Penetration Tester - Bengaluru, India - Shell

Shell

Verified Company

Bengaluru, India

2 weeks ago

Posted by:

Deepika Kaur

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Description

The Role:

Where you fit in?

The purpose of the IRM Function is to ensure that Shell is addressing Information Risks in an effective and efficient manner, commensurate with Shell risk appetite, and being seen as an industry leader among peers and key suppliers of security services.

The Information Risk posture of Shell includes a wide variety of potential business impacts, such as HSSE impacts, production loss, financial and maintenance operations loss, loss of Most Confidential bidding data.

The IRM Function defines requirements for the assessment of Information Risks, defines the selection of mandated IT Controls, and defines and executes assessments of the design and operational effectiveness of these controls.

The function organises communication campaigns to impact the behaviour of business and IT staff where it relates to Information Risks.

In addition to these preventative measures, the IRM Function includes a Cyber Resilience function to understand the cyber threat landscape and the vulnerabilities to cyberattacks in IT systems and services, to detect malicious behaviour and to respond to incidents.

What's the role?**As part of the Information Risk Management function, the CyberDefence capability has specific focus on identifying cyber threats, discovery of IT vulnerabilities, monitoring for cyber intrusions and response to security incidentsAs part of the CyberDefence capability the Penetration testing team has the following main areas of focus:

To find major vulnerabilities in IT landscapes where Shell data is hosted before they are being exploited for malicious purposes.
To prioritize and help remediate vulnerabilities as soon as possible where required.

A Penetration tester in this team you are responsible:

To plan, scope, execute and report on attack & penetration tests on new IT developments and hypothetical threat scenarios.
To close high risk vulnerabilities as soon as possible and register other vulnerabilities for risk priorization and remediation where required.

Accountabilities

Penetration Testing

Support the Vulnerability Lead in planning penetration tests based on new IT developments and hypothetical threat scenarios and find appropriate budget and sponsors.
Scope the tests in more detail and find information on network address and accounts.
Where necessary to help find additional expertise necessary to execute the tests.
Execute the tests preventing Business disruption as much as possible.
Report on findings, fixing high risk vulnerabilities as soon as possible and registering other vulnerabilities for later risk priorization and remediation where required.

Vulnerability Scanning

Operate periodic vulnerability scanning tools and services such as Nexpose, Veracode and others.
Support the Vulnerability Lead in consolidating the vulnerability scanning tools where possible.
Integrate reporting with other CyberDefence data in IRM workflow system (Collective) and data analytics solution (IRM investigation platform).

What we need from you?
Experience and Qualifications required.

Is a knowledgeable, creative and responsible IT security professional.
Has excellent analytical skills and appreciates a technical challenge.
Has a passion for IT technology and is able to share that with other members of the team.
Has good written and verbal communication skills and provides wellinformed advice.
Produces high quality deliverables in terms of both content and presentation

Examples of deliverables include:
reports, presentations and reasoned arguments.

Demonstrates an understanding of the issues of interest to Shell and proposes viable solutions within the scope of own expertise, taking into account the needs of those affected.
Maintains knowledge and experience of current practice within own area of expertise and is aware of current developments within own area of expertise.
Develops and maintains knowledge of Cyber security and maintains an awareness of current developments.
Promotes transfer of knowledge and awareness of information security to those in related areas.
Is comfortable working virtually.
Is able to think and act like a hacker using his creativity to bypass IT defences.
Has at least 1 year experience in IT security and preferably experience in attack and penetration testing/ethical hacking or technical IT audits.
Has a solid understanding of IT networks and operating systems such as Windows and Unix/Linux.
Has experience with analysing network traffic using tools such as tcpdump, wireshark.
Has experience using open source scanning tools such as nmap, nessus, metasploit and/or commercial tools such as Rapid7, Quallys.
Has experience with scripting tools and programming languages such as Perl, Python, C, C++, VBS, Java and analytical and reporting tools such as Excel, Sharepoint and preferably Splunk.
Has relevant certifications such as, CISSP, SANS and preferably:
GIAC Penetration Tester