Offensive Privacy Engineer (Privacy-oriented Penetration Tester/Red Team Operator) - USDS
San Jose, California, United States
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.
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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