3–5 years of experience in IT, cybersecurity, or offensive security
Prior exposure to penetration testing, red team activities, SOC collaboration, or adversary emulation
Experience performing internal, external, or cloud network security assessments
Execute internal and external network penetration tests, including attack-path discovery and privilege escalation
Perform port scanning, service enumeration, and network mapping using industry-standard tools
Identify and validate misconfigurations, weak authentication, segmentation failures, and trust boundary issues
Assess on-prem and cloud network architectures (AWS, Azure, hybrid environments)
Participate in red team engagements simulating real-world adversaries
Execute TTP-driven attacks aligned to frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK
Support purple team exercises by collaborating with defensive teams to validate detections, tune alerts, and measure defensive coverage
Provide clear attacker-perspective feedback to blue teams and security leadership
Support and/or execute social engineering campaigns
Assist in campaign planning, execution, and ethical handling of sensitive data
Draft clear, accurate technical findings with reproduction steps and evidence
Contribute to executive summaries explaining risk, impact, and attack feasibility
Communicate findings effectively to technical teams, defensive stakeholders, and non-technical leadership
Use and help improve offensive tooling, scripts, and testing infrastructure

Penetration Testing Engineer – Network Security

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