Cloud Pentester
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