Advisory Red Co-op (2026)

SRA’s mission is to level up every day to protect our clients and their customers. This begins with our team members and their experience. SRA prides itself on maintaining a culture where team members have a shared sense of support and belonging, consistent with our It’s Personal company value. At SRA, we prioritize transparent career pathing, varied DEI programming and community groups, competitive benefits including mental health support, and an emphasis on a sustainable, healthy, and engaging work culture. SRA has twice been named a Best Place to Work by the Philadelphia Business Journal. 

These Essential Functions, Requirements, and Skills are guidelines. If you are a candidate who does not meet this exact job description but can demonstrate excellent organization, attention to detail, professionalism, flexibility, and self-direction in your professional background, we hope you apply. SRA values a diverse workplace and strongly encourages people of all backgrounds to apply.  

Summary/Objective  

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

Essential Functions  

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

•  Red Teams: adaptive, flag-based red team engagements designed to demonstrate the impact of a dedicated, persistent attacker.  

• Purple Teams: the “open-book” approach to penetration testing, working side-by-side with our internal and client blue teams to strengthen defense against real attackers.  

• Web and Mobile Assessments: dynamic web and mobile application security testing.  

• Penetration Testing: assess internal and external networks for common and custom security flaws that can lead to widespread access to sensitive systems and data.  

• 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.  

Supervisory Responsibility  

N/A 

Work Environment  

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

Physical Demands  

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 [email protected] with any questions. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable disabled individuals to perform the essential functions of this role.  

Position Type/Expected Hours of Work  

 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.  

Travel  

Willingness to travel  

Required Education and Experience  

• Punctuality and timely attendance to external client and internal stakeholder needs. 

• Currently pursuing a Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, IT Security, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or an equivalent subject matter.  

• Previous security experience is a plus.  

Preferred Qualifications and Experience  

• Residence in Eastern time zone preferred. 

• String organization skills with attention to detail.  

• Some knowledge around incident investigation, forensics and advanced threat controls.  

• Interest in taking initiatuve 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.  

Other Duties  

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.  

EEO Statement  

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, national origin, disability, marital or family status, veteran status, medical condition, or any similar category protected under federal, state, or local laws.    

Work with Experts: 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.

Corps Training Program: Our SRA Corps training program is a six-week experience for 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 bootcamps.

Mental Health Services: SRA has partnered with BetterHelp to provide SRA employees with free mental health support. BetterHelp connects individuals with licensed therapists for chat, video, and phone sessions.

Hourly Pay Rate: $30.00