Penetration Tester

Booz Allen Hamilton•Herndon, VA

19h

About The Position

Penetration Tester The Opportunity: We’re mission accelerators who protect and advance national interests by harnessing cutting-edge technology. As a penetration tester, you'll drive strategic initiatives to safeguard our critical digital environments in support of high-stakes national security clients. Your expertise in identifying and mitigating complex vulnerabilities, simulating sophisticated real-world cyberattacks, and assessing the security posture of both cloud-native and on-premises infrastructures will ensure the security of computer systems, applications, servers, and networks. In this role, you’ll lead the design and implementation of advanced security assessment frameworks and the creation of tailored testing met hodologies for unique, mission-critical client environments, continuously enhancing met hodologies to stay ahead of emerging threats. This is an opportunity to c ond uct comprehensive security audits across enterprise-wide systems and mission systems, while collaborating with incident response teams to "purple team" and refine defensive postures. You’ll oversee and guide teams to identify vulnerabilities and provide actionable solutions to enhance network resilience, cloud and container security, and robust application security. Work with us as we help keep our customers’ digital environments secure. Join us. The world can't wait.

Requirements

5+ years of experience with cyber penetration testing or developing risk and threat mitigation plans
5+ years of experience operating in Linux, Windows, and virtual platforms
5+ years of experience with computer attack met hods and system exploitation techniques
5+ years of experience leveraging adversarial tactics to c ond uct hands-on security testing
5+ years of experience performing network security analysis, including sof tware or traffic analysis
TS/SCI clearance with a polygraph
HS diploma or GED

Nice To Haves

Experience manually auditing source code, including Java, Ruby, Python, JavaScript, Rus t, or C, to find security issues
Bachelor's degree in CS, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field
Certified Ethical Hacker ( CEH ) , Offensive Security Certified Professional ( OSCP ) , HTB Certified Penetration Tester Spe cia list ( CPTS ) , eLearnSecurity Junior Penetration Tester ( EJPT ) , GIAC Global Information Assurance Penetration Tester ( GPEN ) , or GIAC Cloud Penetration Tester Certification

Responsibilities

Lead the design and implementation of advanced security assessment frameworks.
Create tailored testing met hodologies for unique, mission-critical client environments.
Continuously enhance met hodologies to stay ahead of emerging threats.
C ond uct comprehensive security audits across enterprise-wide systems and mission systems.
Collaborate with incident response teams to "purple team" and refine defensive postures.
Oversee and guide teams to identify vulnerabilities and provide actionable solutions to enhance network resilience, cloud and container security, and robust application security.