Senior Penetration Tester

Booking Holdings Romania is a Center of Excellence based in Bucharest, Romania and was created to support the increasing business demands of the Booking Holdings Brands. The Center of Excellence provides access to specialized and highly skilled talent, leading industry best practices, and collaboration opportunities across all of our Brands.

As part of our Booking Holdings Romania team, you will have the opportunity to be a part of the world’s leading provider of online travel, with a mission of making it easier for everyone to experience the world through six-primary consumer-facing brands: Booking.com, Priceline, Agoda, KAYAK, OpenTable and Rentalcars.com.

The Senior Penetration Tester defines and leads the execution of highly technical and specialized engagements and designs new techniques of testing based on the evolution of industry best practices over time. They are both performing hands-on technical testing without requiring supervision and are coordinating teams of testers to ensure that the engagement objectives are met. They strengthen Booking’s security posture by proactively identifying vulnerabilities and security control gaps in our systems and applications. The Senior Penetration Tester provides critical input to the Senior Manager - Threat Management with the development of the security assurance strategic plan based on subject matter expertise to increase the impact and value added through this area of focus. The Senior Penetration Tester also helps further grow the security assurance area by mentoring other team members and members of other technical non-pentester communities within Booking. The Senior Penetration Tester has strong stakeholder management skills that enable effective communication of technical information to multi-level (up to CISO/CSO level), technical and non-technical audiences both within Booking and the broader Booking Holdings organization.

B.skilled

Threat Modeling
2-3 years of threat modeling experience. Familiarity with threat modeling methodologies such as STRIDE or PASTA

Web application / API Penetration Testing
Expert level understanding of application security concepts at both technical and procedural level
Expert level understanding and exploitation skills for web application vulnerabilities (OWASP - SQLi, XSS, CSRF, XXE, IDOR, SSRF, etc )
Expertise on at least one of the following DAST tools (AppScan, BurpSuite, Acunetix, Web Inspect, etc)
Experience of creating attack trees/chains
Experience of automating penetration testing tasks such as import API spec ( Swagger, Open API, etc ) to pentesting tools
Understanding (technical aspects of) penetration testing and results (including scoping and organizing of pentests, use of vulnerability scanners, vulnerability management tools)

Secure SDLC
Good understanding of application security tooling integration with CI/CD pipelines of applications
Good understanding of how git works, good to have experience of Gitlab CI/CD
Ability to read code (Perl, Java, JS) and identify vulnerabilities
 Ability to provide remediation recommendations to developers

Infrastructure and Cloud Penetration Testing
3+ years experience of performing penetration tests for infrastructure and network
Good understanding of kubernetes and virtualization technologies
Expert level understanding of vulnerabilities and exploitation techniques such as RCE, buffer overflows, subdomain takeover, dns exfiltration, privilege escalation, etc)
Hands on security experience of performing cloud security reviews for at least one of the following cloud platforms ( AWS, GCP, Azure)

Manage Penetration Testing Lab
Experience of creating and managing penetration testing lab/infrastructure

Desirable:
7+ years of experience in information security 
5+ years of relevant hands-on experience in offensive security testing and engagement management 
Expertise in at least one of the following areas: (Web) application security, infrastructure and cloud security, mobile security 
Excellence in communicating business risk and remediation requirements from assessments
Excellent stakeholder management skills 
Proficient in scripting languages such as Python, PowerShell, Bash, and Ruby. 
Competent with testing frameworks and tools 
Understanding of OWASP, the MITRE ATT&CK framework and the software development lifecycle (SDLC) 
Analytical and problem-solving mindset. 
Highly organized and efficient 4 Desirable: 
Experience in offensive tactics 
Software development experience 
Experience with using tools such as Burp Suite, AppScan, Acunetix , Zap ,Web Inspect,  , Metasploit, Nessus / Qualys and OSINT tools  
One or more of the following certifications: OSCP, OSCE, GPEN, GWAPT, CEH, CISSP or a similar recognized certification in their domain of expertise

B.responsible

Defines and leads the execution of highly technical penetration tests and security assurance engagements that deliver value to Booking by independently performing hands-on, detailed technical tests without requiring supervision. 
Owns the design of new technical testing engagements to best serve the current and future needs of the organization, being able to adapt industry best practices to the local technical and cultural environment. 
Owns the responsibility to ensure that the budget allocated to pentesting activities performed by external vendors, delivers the necessary value and results in a good return on investment. 
Actively contributes to the mid- and long-term security assurance strategic plan definition by introducing domain expertise insights and ensuring the plan is effective and impactful. 
Grows the security assurance area of focus within security by understanding the current and target security posture of the business and identifying the skills and resources needed to effectively deliver on those needs. 
Mentors junior and core penetration testers, driving their career growth within this highly specialized technical craft. 
Provides deep technical expertise to the business in the following highly specialized domains: 
Threat modeling
Web application / API penetration Testing
Mobile application penetration testing
Infrastructure and cloud penetration testing
Purple team assessments
Provides guidance and recommendations to teams, taking into account the current state of their technical environment, their future roadmap and strategy, and the risk associated with the underlying findings and vulnerabilities. 
Keeps up to date with the latest developments in vulnerabilities and threats within their domain of expertise, using this to assess the security posture of Booking to new trends and attacks 
Drives and coordinates multi-disciplined teams (including internal testers, external contractors, engagement managers) to conduct and successfully deliver pentest engagements of booking systems and services. 
Drives the reporting of penetration test outcomes by drafting, disseminating, and presenting them to technical and non-technical stakeholders at multiple levels (junior analyst to leadership team). 
Collaborates and coordinates with cross-functional technical and non-technical stakeholders within Booking.com and Booking Holdings to achieve a successful testing engagement that delivers critical security value. 
Supports the cross-brand security assurance program throughout Booking Holdings by engaging with key security personnel (CISOs to engineers) 
Mentors and trains non-pentesters, such as developers and other technical roles, in the relevant aspects of penetration testing and vulnerability identification to scale their impact across the department and booking.

B.offered

Contributing to a high scale, complex, world renowned company and seeing real-time impact of your work on millions of travelers worldwide
Working in a fast-paced and performance driven culture
Competitive compensation and benefits package and some great added perks of working at Booking

Booking Holdings is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. We strive to move well beyond traditional equal opportunity and work to create an environment that allows everyone to thrive.