Ethical Hacker / Red Team Analyst

Company Overview

At Motorola Solutions, we create technologies our customers refer to as their lifeline.  Our technology platforms in communications, software, video and services help our customers work safely and more efficiently.  Whether it’s helping firefighters see through smoke, enabling police officers to see around street corners, or reliably keeping the lights on in homes and businesses around the world, our work supports those who put their lives on the line to keep us safe.  Bring your passion, potential and talents to Motorola Solutions, and help us usher in a new era in public safety and security.

Department Overview

Our IT organization has a critical role in driving extraordinary business results. Through a strong partnership with other areas of our business, we bring innovative thinking to every conversation and deliver with integrity. We’re looking for people who bring great ideas and who make our partners’ ideas better. Intellectually curious advisors (not order takers) who focus on outcomes to creatively solve business problems. People who not only embrace change but who accelerate it.

Job Description

Do you like to take things apart to see how they work? Do you have the ability to find flaws and bugs in software or workflows? Would you like the chance to use those skills to break into software and systems - to help defend them more effectively? As a Red Team Analyst, you can be part of a team of experienced and innovative cybersecurity professionals. You have the opportunity to plan and execute advanced cyber attacks against infrastructure, applications and products. You get to collaborate with your peers and define the path to excellence in the way we protect, detect and respond to cyber-attacks.

Scope of Responsibilities / Expectations:

We are looking for someone with out of the box thinking, who is eager to collaborate and learn from world class security professionals and is excited by the challenge 

• You will have the opportunity to execute controlled real world attacks against MSI live systems, products and facilities. The Red Team Analyst will challenge existing security controls and identify strategic business and operational risks to the company. 

• You will practice routinely adopting the tools and techniques of actual adversaries, leveraging the latest attacks on other organizations to mimic the work of adversaries to improve and train the Security Operations Center analysts. 

• You will work with incident response and security engineers to tune detection mechanisms and improve current processes and controls. 

• You will develop techniques to successfully demonstrate a compromise and how these attacks of deliberate disruption can cause financial loss or cause a negative impact to Motorola Solutions and its customers.

Desired Background/Knowledge/Skills:

• Demonstrate knowledge of MS Windows, Unix-based and mid-range platform systems used to deliver commercial enterprise applications
• Be technically proficient in penetration testing tools
• Ability to think creatively and create custom tools
• Strong team player with the ability to work with a geographically dispersed team
• Certifications: Any of the following are preferred but not required: OSCP, OSCE, GWAPT, GPEN or GXPN

Basic Requirements

• BS/MS degree, or relevant work experience
• At least 2 years of hands-on technical security red team experience in infrastructure and application level penetration testing
• Have a software/scripting language background like Python, Ruby, Powershell, etc
• Excellent English language skills; oral and written communication