[IBM Japan]X-Force Red Penetration Tester

Introduction
A career in IBM Consulting is rooted by long-term relationships and close collaboration with clients across the globe.
You’ll work with visionaries across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Your ability to accelerate impact and make meaningful change for your clients is enabled by our strategic partner ecosystem and our robust technology platforms across the IBM portfolio; including Software and Red Hat.
Curiosity and a constant quest for knowledge serve as the foundation to success in IBM Consulting. In your role you’ll be encouraged to challenge the norm investigate ideas outside of your role and come up with creative solutions resulting in ground breaking impact for a wide network of clients. Our culture of evolution and empathy centers on long-term career growth and development opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience.

Your Role and Responsibilities
Are you passionate about performing penetration testing on all technologies (applications networks systems databases hardware etc.) to uncover security vulnerabilities and fix them?
Are you interested in joining a team of passionate hackers with decades of experience to help organisations strengthen their security? Our mission statement is “hack anything to secure everything”.
We at IBM X-Force Red (IBM’s veteran hacker team) are looking for new colleagues to work on projects with us.
Your roles and responsibilities:
You will be a member of the X-Force Red offensive security team and your primary responsibility will be to perform vulnerability and penetration testing on our clients’ network assets and web applications.
After testing you will prepare reports explain your findings to the client and provide advice on recommended countermeasures.
You will also be responsible for understanding X-Force Red’s offerings supporting customers with proposals and acquiring new projects.
You will work on projects for customers who subscribe to X-Force Red services and be in charge of delivering the following:
• Network vulnerability assessments and penetration testing.
• Web application vulnerability assessments and penetration testing.
• OT environment penetration testing.
Benefits to you:
• Learn cutting edge hacking skills – you will have the opportunity to work with top hackers from around the world and collaborate with them to learn the latest technologies. There are also many opportunities to participate in external training programs such as SANS.
• Opportunities to experience a variety of technologies – IBM has relationships with many customers around the world so you will have the opportunity to experience testing a variety of next-generation technologies including mainframe ATM IoT container and more.
• Global Career Development – there are many opportunities to work at a global scale such as participating in projects for expanding Japanese companies. You can also develop your English skills.
• Opportunities to present research results – you will have opportunities to present the results of your research at security conferences.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise
• Native Japanese speaker
• Experience in vulnerability assessments and penetration testing of network or web applications.
Even if you do not have any of the above experience we will actively consider you if you have any of the following:
・OSCP/GIAC

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise
• Security-related certifications such as CISSP
• Experience presenting at project debriefings in front of a large audience.
• Experience in working with other teams on large scale projects.
• Experience in OT.
• TOEIC score of 730 or above/equivalent English proficiency.