Senior Penetration Testing Analyst 1

Sophos; India; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,600,000; Full time

Job summary

Sophos is seeking an experienced Senior Penetration Testing Analyst to join our Red Team in India. You will act as the primary contact for testing readiness, coordinating tasks, timelines, and communications between business, client, and project teams.

The role focuses on advancing testing readiness and delivering high-impact security assessments. You will specialize in either application security or network security, employing off-the-shelf and internally developed tools to perform advanced

Qualifications

• Experience in red team engagements and penetration testing.
• Experience coordinating testing readiness and communication.
• Ability to focus on either application security or network security.

Responsibilities

• Act as point of contact for testing readiness and coordination with business, client, and project teams.
• Escalate issues to management and own new challenges to add value.
• Support test readiness activities and drive timely communications during engagements.

Skills

Penetration testing

Red Team coordination

Application security testing

Network security testing

Threat intelligence

Test planning

Job description

About Us

Sophos is a cybersecurity leader defending 600,000 organizations globally with an AI-driven platform and expert-led services. Sophos meets organizations wherever they are in their security maturity and grows with them to defeat cyberattacks. Its solutions combine machine learning, automation, and real-time threat intelligence with frontline human expertise from Sophos X-Ops to deliver advanced, 24/7 threat monitoring, detection, and response.

About Us

Sophos is a cybersecurity leader defending 600,000 organizations globally with an AI-driven platform and expert-led services. Sophos meets organizations wherever they are in their security maturity and grows with them to defeat cyberattacks. Its solutions combine machine learning, automation, and real-time threat intelligence with frontline human expertise from Sophos X-Ops to deliver advanced, 24/7 threat monitoring, detection, and response.

Role Summary

Sophos is seeking an experienced and motivated Senior Penetration Testing Analyst 1 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 Senior Penetration Testing Analyst 1, 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