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Cyber Security Analyst
Mindlance
- 🇺🇸 United States
- Remote
- Manager or above
- 1 day ago
- Bug Bounty
- triage
- CVSS
- OWASP
- REST API
- Burp Suite
- HackerOne
- AWS
- Azure
- Python
- PowerShell
- JavaScript
- OSCP
- OSWE
- GWAPT
- GPEN
1 day ago
Business Initiative/Purpose: (Goal, Business Impact, Accomplishments from the work)
- Supplement remediation of Bug Bounty findings.
Bachelor Degree: (Required, Preferred or Not Required)
- Preferred.
Role Responsibilities: (what they will be doing)
- Review and triage incoming bug bounty submissions for validity, severity, impact, and duplication.
- Reproduce reported vulnerabilities and document clear technical evidence and reproduction steps.
- Work with application/product teams to validate findings and support remediation.
- Evaluate vulnerability severity using CVSS, exploitability, business impact, and environmental context.
- Manage submissions through the vulnerability lifecycle, including researcher questions, internal escalation, remediation tracking, retesting, and closure.
- Identify recurring vulnerability patterns and opportunities to improve detection or preventative controls.
- Assist with bug bounty scope reviews, asset onboarding, exclusions, and program documentation.
- Support reporting and metrics around submission volume, severity, remediation status, and vulnerability trends.
- Partner with security engineering teams to translate researcher techniques and findings into actionable security improvements.
Must Have Skills/Prior Experiences: (Vendor should not submit any candidate that does not have these skills/prior experience.)
- Hands-on experience validating and reproducing web application, API, and/or cloud security vulnerabilities.
- Strong understanding of common vulnerability classes including OWASP Top 10 and authorization/access-control issues.
- Practical experience with HTTP, REST APIs, authentication/authorization mechanisms, and web application architecture.
- Experience using security testing tools such as Burp Suite, browser developer tools, API clients, and scripting tools.
- Ability to independently analyze vulnerability reports and distinguish valid security issues from duplicates, informational findings, or non-security behavior.
- Strong technical documentation skills, including the ability to clearly communicate reproduction steps, impact, and remediation guidance.
- Experience working with engineering/application teams through vulnerability remediation and retesting.
- Ability to manage multiple vulnerability investigations simultaneously with limited supervision.
Plus/Nice to Have Skills/Prior Experiences:(Hiring Manager DOES NOT require these skills/ prior experience. However candidates with any of these will be looked at first.)
- Direct experience with HackerOne or another vulnerability disclosure/bug bounty platform.
- Previous participation as a bug bounty researcher or vulnerability researcher.
- Experience with cloud security, particularly AWS or Azure.
- Experience testing APIs, mobile applications, authentication systems, or complex authorization models.
- Familiarity with source-code review and secure coding practices.
- Experience developing scripts or tooling in Python, PowerShell, JavaScript, or similar languages to assist vulnerability validation.
- Familiarity with attack-surface management, asset discovery, threat hunting, or security detection engineering.
- Security certifications such as OSCP, OSWE, BSCP, GWAPT, GPEN, or comparable hands-on experience.
EEO:
“Mindlance is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate in employment on the basis of – Minority/Gender/Disability/Religion/LGBTQI/Age/Veterans.”
Cyber Security Analyst · Mindlance