Advisory Red Co-op; Drexel

The Advisory Red Co-op position will be part of Security Risk Advisors’ Advisory team. Our style of consulting is dynamic, innovative, fast- paced, and highly rewarding for both our clients and our team. This is an outstanding opportunity to work with a wide variety of tool sets and across various well-known client organizations.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Penetration Testing: assess internal and external networks for common and custom security flaws that can lead to widespread access to sensitive systems and data.
• Purple Teams: the “open-book” approach to penetration testing, working side-by-side with our internal and client blue teams to strengthen defenses against real attackers.
• Web and Mobile Assessments: dynamic web and mobile application security testing.
• Red Teams: adaptive, flag-based red team engagements designed to demonstrate the impact of a dedicated, persistent attacker.
• Tactical Assessments: social engineering, spear phishing, physical break-ins, product security assessments, industrial control systems, architecture reviews.
• Documentation: document evidence of work in reports and status updates.
• Research and Innovation: use knowledge gained to conduct research initiatives with the purpose of improving our services and giving back to the community.

This job operates in a professional office environment, and all co-ops are expected to work in the office. This role routinely uses standard office equipment.

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and hear; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; and reach with hands and arms. The employee frequently is required to stand and walk.

This is a largely sedentary role.

Candidates with disabilities are encouraged to apply and email careers with any questions. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable disabled individuals to perform the essential functions of this role.

This is a full-time position, and hours of work and days are Monday through Friday 8:30am to 5pm. Occasional evening and weekend work may be required as job duties demand.

Co-ops are expected to work in-person at their assigned office 4/5 days per week unless otherwise permitted by their supervisor.

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Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

• In-progress or completed formal cybersecurity training program, including an undergraduate program or cybersecurity certification/boot camp.
• Strong organizational skills with attention to detail.
• Some knowledge around incident investigation, forensics, and advanced threat controls.
• Interest in taking the initiative for personal growth and development.
• Flexibility to accommodate changing schedules of client and project needs.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with a high level of professionalism.
• Willingness to travel depending on assignments and specializations.
• Punctuality and timely attendance to external client and internal stakeholder needs.

• Previous information security experience is a plus.

Robust internal training program, plus Company-paid external training. SRA recognizes the value of professional development for employees. Therefore, we encourage our employees to pursue continuing education and role-specific training.

Our SRA Corps training program is a six-week experience for May new hires that begins with one week of orientation at our Philadelphia headquarters. Whether new hires are interns, co-ops, or full-time consultants, SRA Corps members meet our founders, learn our values, and experience a day in the life of a cybersecurity consultant. Following orientation, Corps members return to their home office and participate in trainings such as Consulting 101, Enterprise Networks, Cloud Security and more.

Our leaders provide hands-on offensive, defensive, and frameworks boot camps.

SRA has partnered with Better Help to provide SRA employees with free mental health support. Better Help connects individuals with licensed therapists for chat, video, and phone sessions.

Security Risk Advisors is an Equal Opportunity Employer and prohibits discrimination or harassment of any kind. All employment decisions at SRA are based on business needs, job requirements, and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, religion,…