Penetration Testing Analyst

Sophos; Ahmedabad District; Remote; INR 1,800,000 - 3,600,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote position

Job summary

Sophos is seeking an experienced Penetration Testing Analyst 3 to join our Red Team. This role focuses on testing readiness, coordinating activities, and delivering security assessments for client environments using both manual testing and automated tools.

You will lead client calls, document findings, and help remediate vulnerabilities across web, mobile, API, and network testing domains. Strong communication and proactive threat research are essential.

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years of Information Security experience.
• Strong client-facing and written/verbal communication skills.
• Ability to learn quickly in a high-energy team environment.
• Solid organizational and multitasking abilities.
• Experience with penetration testing and at least one of the listed tools.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate activities, documentation, readiness schedules, and information between business, clients, and project teams.
• Serve as the point of contact to communicate testing readiness status to all participants.
• Use PM tools to monitor tasks, owners, timelines, and status.
• Report issues to management and take ownership of new requests to add value.
• Conduct application security or network penetration testing and deliver professional reports.
• Lead client conference calls through testing lifecycle and remediation discussions.
• Research new threats and exploits to improve testing effectiveness.

Skills

Information Security

Client communication

Team collaboration

Penetration testing

Threat research

Troubleshooting

Project coordination

Linux

Windows

Networking fundamentals

OWASP Top 10

Tools

NMap

Metasploit

Kali Linux

Burp Suite

Job description

Role Summary

Sophos is seeking an experienced and motivated Penetration Testing Analyst 3 to join our Red Team. The Sophos Red Team is engaged by organizations worldwide to identify and exploit vulnerabilities within client environments, applying information security threat intelligence to uncover the same weaknesses real-world adversaries would target.

As a Penetration Testing Analyst 3, you will act as the point of contact for testing readiness, coordinating tasks, timelines, and communication between business, client, and project teams. Responsible for escalating issues to management and taking ownership of new challenges to add value. In addition to test readiness support, the position will focus on either application security (web application penetration testing, mobile, API testing) or network security (vulnerability assessments, external penetration tests, internal penetration tests, etc.), using both off-the-shelf and internally developed tools to execute manual testing for advanced attacks. Candidates are not expected to be experienced in both focus areas, although that would be a plus.

In this role, you will be responsible for test readiness activities to ensure engagements are ready to begin by troubleshooting client readiness problems, communicating with clients and tracking readiness status, and producing professional security assessment reports detailing vulnerability and exploit information for clients. This position will lead client-facing calls throughout each engagement, from test readiness and troubleshooting, project kick-off through notification of high and critical findings to a close-out review of test findings, evidence, process steps to reproduce, and remediation recommendations.

The ideal candidate for this role will bring strong technical communication skills, sound analytical and problem-solving abilities, and a proactive approach to researching new threats, vulnerabilities, and exploits.

You will excel as both a self-directed individual contributor and as a member of a larger team, performing other essential duties as assigned.

What you will do

• This is a remote position with potential travel up to 10%
• Coordinate activities, documentation, readiness schedules, and information between business, clients, and project teams.
• Act as the point of contact and communicate testing readiness status adequately to all participants
• Use project management tools to monitor key tasks, responsible parties, timelines, and status
• Report and elevate issues to management as needed
• Take ownership for accomplishing new and different requests; exploring opportunities to add value to job accomplishments.
• Conduct application security assessments (web, mobile, API, etc.) using off-the-shelf or internally developed exploitation tools to execute manual testing for advanced attacks OR network penetration testing assessments (external pen test, internal pen test, etc.)
• Produce and deliver vulnerability and exploit information to clients in the form of a professional security assessment report
• Conduct client conference calls, including but not limited to test readiness and troubleshooting calls, project kick-off calls, notification of high/critical findings during the testing process, and close-out calls to review test findings, evidence, process steps to reproduce, and remediation recommendations
• Perform proactive research to identify and understand new threats, vulnerabilities, and exploits
• Conduct exploitation testing using off-the-shelf or self-developed exploitation tools and document findings for client remediation
• Excel as both a self-directed individual contributor and as a member of a larger team
• Perform other essential duties as assigned

What you will bring

• 3+ years of experience in Information Security
• Excellent client-facing and internal communication skills, both written and verbal
• Demonstrate ability to learn quickly and thrive in high-energy team environment
• Professional, get it done attitude, work ethic, and strong team player
• Solid organizational skills including attention to detail and multitasking skills
• Minimum of 3 year of experience with penetration testing
• Minimum of 3 years of experience with at least one of the following: NMap, Metasploit, Kali Linux, Burp Suite
• Desirable: Experience with NMap Scanning
• Understanding of web application authentication methods
• Experience with Linux
• Understanding of networking and appliances (routers, load balancers, firewalls, WAF, IDS/IPS, web content filter/proxy)
• Understanding of tools to validate network access with a penetration testing platform
• Offensive certifications such as CEH, WAPT, GPEN, GWAPT, GAWN, OSCP, etc.
• Knowledge of operating systems administration and internals (Microsoft Windows / Linux)
• Understanding of TCP/IP networking at a technical level
• Experience with various application attack vectors, security test processes, and strong knowledge of common vulnerabilities (i.e. OWASP Top 10)
• Good troubleshooting skills, technical communication skills, both written and verbal; good analytical and problem-solving skills