Senior Security Consultant (Cloud Penetration Testing - AWS)

Job Description

Job Description

Job Description

NetSPI® pioneered Penetration Testing as a Service (PTaaS) and leads the industry in modern pentesting. Combining world-class security professionals with AI and automation, NetSPI delivers clarity, speed, and scale across 50+ pentest types, attack surface management, and vulnerability prioritization. The NetSPI platform streamlines workflows and accelerates remediation, enabling our experts to focus on deep dive testing that uncovers vulnerabilities others miss. Trusted by the top 10 U.S. banks and Fortune 500 companies worldwide, NetSPI has been driving security innovation since 2001.

NetSPI is on an exciting growth journey as we disrupt and improve the proactive security market. We are looking for individuals with a collaborative, innovative, and customer-first mindset to join our team. Learn more about our award-winning workplace culture and get to know our A-Team at www.netspi.com/careers.

We are seeking an experienced professional with demonstrated technical depth and breadth in Cloud Penetration Testing as well as the soft skills to effectively communicate with executive and technical teams. In this role, you'll have the ability to work alongside a world-class team using top-tier custom tools. Applicants are expected to leverage strong problem-solving skills, as well as lead, collaborate, and innovate to deliver high-quality exercises and exceptional experiences for our customers.

Responsibilities:

• Execute cloud penetration tests against AWS environments.
• Develop innovative TTPs in support of Cloud testing.
• Create attack narratives and findings-based penetration test reports for clients.
• Collaborate with clients to create remediation strategies that will help improve their security posture.
• Act as a resource for internal team members as it relates to in-depth technical questions or best practices in Cloud.
• Assist in QA review of Cloud engagements.
• Help define and document internal processes and TTPs.
• Contribute to the information security community through the development of tools, presentations, white papers, and blogs.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or higher with a concentration in computer science, engineering, math, IT, or equivalent experience.
• 3 - 5 years experience performing offensive/attack-oriented penetration tests against AWS environments and External/Internal networks.
• Recognized Penetration Testing specific qualifications such as GXPN, OSCP, OSCE, or similar certifications.
• Strong communication, presentation, and writing skills.
• Experience performing security focused cloud configuration reviews.
• Experience with offensive toolkits for both cloud and network penetration testing.
• Demonstrable knowledge in the following areas:
• Exploiting security misconfigurations for core cloud services such as Compute, Storage, Databases, Networking, Kubernetes, and other PAAS services
• IAM security fundamentals and how to leverage excessive permissions for lateral movement and privilege escalation within the cloud
• Testing external cloud attack surfaces
• Testing internal cloud attack surfaces

Preferred Qualifications:

• Programming experience in one or more of the following languages: Python, PowerShell, C#, Go.
• Experience researching new cloud service offerings with the goal of identifying misconfigurations and vulnerabilities.
• Web Application pentesting experience.

We are an equal employment opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.