Senior Penetration Tester and Cloud Automation Specialist
3 days ago
We are seeking a highly skilled Security Engineer to lead our internal penetration testing efforts and red-team style assessments of critical infrastructure and applications. This key role will drive cloud/data centre security initiatives for our product portfolio.
Key Responsibilities:
- Penetration Testing & Offensive Security
- Design and execute targeted internal red team/pentration tests across infrastructure, SaaS, APIs, and cloud environments.
- Perform manual and automated testing to simulate real-world attack scenarios, including lateral movement and privilege escalation.
- Collaborate with engineering teams to remediate findings through secure architecture and configuration.
- Perform application security testing (black-box, grey-box, and white-box), including SAST, DAST, and manual review.
- Conduct red-team and purple-team exercises to simulate attacker behaviors and validate detection/resilience capabilities.
- Support the development of exploit POCs, custom tooling, and automation pipelines for recurring testing scenarios.
- Security Automation & DevSecOps
- Architect and build scalable cloud security automation pipelines from first principles.
- Develop and maintain Terraform modules, CI/CD integrations, and IaC security gates.
- Build and operate security data pipelines to ingest and analyze scan and detection data at scale.
Requirements:- Extensive experience in offensive security, DevSecOps, security engineering roles.
- Penetration testing experience across infrastructure, cloud services, and web applications.
- Familiarity with tools such as Burp Suite, Metasploit, Nmap, OSINT, BloodHound, Prowler, Kube-hunter, or custom scripts.
- Solid understanding of MITRE ATT&CK, OWASP Top 10, CWE, and cloud attack paths.
- Thorough understanding of AWS, Azure, or GCP security models, IAM, and threat surfaces.
- Proven ability to build cloud-native security automation using Terraform (IaC), CI/CD tools and pipelines, Python/Go/Bash.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills with the ability to drive cross-functional initiatives.
Beneficial Experience:- Experience with SIEMs, SOAR, or threat intel platforms.
- Experience with container security (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes, Falco, Trivy).
- Exposure to managing Network IPS/IDS systems (such as Stamus/Suricata).
- Certifications: OSCP, OSWE, OSEP, CRTO, GXPN or equivalent are a plus.
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