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Cloud Pentester

Chantilly, Virginia💼 Full-time💰 $190,500–$190,500🗓 2026-09-08 → 2026-09-25

Core

Conduct penetration testing, vulnerability assessments, and adversarial emulation against enterprise networks, operating systems, applications, virtualized environments, and cloud-based systems to identify and validate security weaknesses.

Role type

Senior IC cloud security penetration tester

Builds

Security assessments and risk mitigation strategies for national security and defense systems

Domain

National Security / Cybersecurity / Cloud Infrastructure

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | research | client delivery | infrastructure | physical/clinical work

Required skills

Penetration testing, vulnerability assessment, adversarial emulation, offensive cyber techniques, system exploitation, network architecture analysis, security control evaluation, risk mitigation strategy development, Windows/Linux security, virtualized environment testing

Preferred skills

Enterprise security architecture design, cloud-native security concepts, hypervisor testing, risk management methodology development, commercial/open-source security tooling

Technologies

Windows, Linux, Hypervisors, Cloud service providers, Network management tools, Security assessment tools

Responsibilities

Conduct penetration testing and vulnerability assessments; Apply offensive cyber techniques and exploitation approaches; Analyze network architectures and security controls; Perform security testing of virtualized and enterprise environments; Assess IT security architectures for compliance; Develop risk mitigation strategies based on testing results

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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