Vulnerability Engineer Cover Letter

In response to your job posting for vulnerability engineer, I am including this letter and my resume for your review.

In my previous role, I was responsible for security control guidance and recommendations, to include those requirements found in ICS 500-27, NIST 800-53, Director of Central Intelligence Directives (DCID) 6/3, DoD Information Assurance Certification and Accreditation Process, DoD Instruction (DoDI) 8510.01 RMF, 500 Intelligence Community Directives (ICDs) to include applicable overlays, Continuity of Operations Planning, Security Technical Implementation Guide and Assured Compliance Assessment Solution (ACAS) scan results.

Please consider my experience and qualifications for this position:

• Creating and maintaining functional and technical documentation
• Test Data Management using JIRA
• Personal enthusiasm for technology and a drive to implement innovative testing framework
• Team player and self-starter with good communication skills to work with cross-functional groups
• Sufficient knowledge of tools used for wireless, web application, and network security testing
• Familiar with Windows/Linux/Mac OS development environment
• Experience with debug tools like WinDbg, Olly Debug, GDB
• Experience in scripting and powershell

Please consider me for the vulnerability engineer opportunity. I am including my resume that lists my qualifications and experience.

Previously, I was responsible for analysis of Navy and DoD architecture studies and advise on the most effective architecture to meet Navy requirements emphasizing capability gaps.

Please consider my experience and qualifications for this position:

• Common and emerging attack vectors, penetration methods, countermeasures, and remediation methods and implications
• Knowledge of information security industry and regulatory obligations (PCI DSS, HIPAA, HITRUST, NIST Framework)
• Understanding of other security technologies such SIEM, Endpoint Protection, Firewalls, Endpoint Encryption
• Technical or Administrator Certification in Linux+ or equivalent within six months of start date
• Experience in working with DoD STIGs
• BS in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or similar field
• Experience with C, C++, and Assembly (x86, ARM, MIPS)
• Experience writing or working with kernel drivers and services for Windows, Linux, Android, or iOS

I submit this application to express my sincere interest in the vulnerability engineer position.

Previously, I was responsible for security control analysis using a Security Control Traceability Matrix as required by DNI ICD 503, CNSS, NIST special publications, FISMA, FIPS, OMB, etc.

Please consider my qualifications and experience:

• Able to code in C/Assembly
• Embedded operating system experience with Android
• Understanding of Android security features such as ALSR
• Develop plugin modules for HexRay’s IDA Pro RE software
• Experience with other mobile operating systems such as Android
• Able to code in C/Objective-C/Assembly
• Embedded operating system experience with iOS
• Understanding of iOS security features such as ALSR

In response to your job posting for vulnerability engineer, I am including this letter and my resume for your review.

In my previous role, I was responsible for analysis and support for engineering and architecture considerations affecting DoD IT assets used to enable AF.

Please consider my qualifications and experience:

• Common knowledge of Networking components (routers, switches, load balancers, wireless access points, etc)
• Common knowledge of firewalls, proxies, mail servers and web servers
• Knowledge of operational support for operating systems, applications and networks
• Common knowledge of client/server relationships
• Basic knowledge of relational databases and structured query language
• Knowledge of multi tier environments
• Knowledge of event and log correlation
• Windows, Mac, and Linux-based operating systems from both a user-endpoint and server perspective

I am excited to be applying for the position of vulnerability engineer. Please accept this letter and the attached resume as my interest in this position.

In the previous role, I was responsible for analysis and support for engineering and architecture considerations affecting DoD IT assets used to enable Space Force missions.

My experience is an excellent fit for the list of requirements in this job:

• Familiarity with kernel debugging in Windows or other environments
• Experience with fuzzing, crash analysis and runtime instrumentation (IDA Pro, WinDbg, OllyDbg, or others)
• Blind protocol analysis and protocol reversing/protocol tools development
• Hardware identification/modification/basic electronics skills (bus sniffing, soldering, debugging)
• Managerial or supervisory experience highly preferred
• Completion of IBM BigFix courses IS720G & IS730G preferred
• Experience with National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) standards and applying Operating Systems (OS), browser and application Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs)
• Experience with .Net, Java and various scripting languages