Offensive Privacy Engineer (Privacy-oriented Penetration Tester/Red Team Operator) - USDS

San Jose, California, United States

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About The Team
We are looking for an experienced Offensive Privacy Engineer to join our testing team. In this role, you will conduct offensive privacy testing and identify vulnerabilities and/or misconfiguration to enhance the security and privacy of our systems and applications. Your efforts will ensure the protection of our users' data against potential threats, comply with applicable laws/regulations/committments and reduce attack paths within the USDS environment.

In order to enhance collaboration and cross-functional partnerships, among other things, at this time, our organization follows a hybrid work schedule that requires employees to work in the office 3 days a week, or as directed by their manager/department. We regularly review our hybrid work model, and the specific requirements may change at any time.

Responsibilities:
- Lead comprehensive privacy-focused penetration tests and/or emulate adversary-like behavior/operations on our infrastructure, application, products and services.
- Perform deep technical, hands-on offensive privacy testing to identify and exploit privacy and security weaknesses.
- Contribute to the creation of a testing framework to methodically test safeguards being designed and implemented
- Design and execute advanced testing methodologies specifically targeting privacy vulnerabilities.
- Develop detailed reports on findings, including actionable remediation recommendations.
- Work closely with XFN teams to address and remediate identified vulnerabilities.
- Communicate findings effectively to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Advocate for best practices in privacy and data protection, ensuring compliance with relevant privacy regulations (e.g., GDPR, CCPA).
- Stay updated on the latest privacy threats and integrate new findings into the testing program.
- Build and implement security testing tools and technologies to enhance privacy testing capabilities and promote automation.
- Continuously improve team processes and methodologies for better testing outcomes.
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Tags: Automation CCPA Compliance Exploit GDPR Privacy Red team Vulnerabilities

Region: North America
Country: United States

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