Remote OT Penetration Testing Lead

Dragos; United States; Remote; USD 117,000 - 143,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity package

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

Dragos is seeking an Associate Principal OT Penetration Tester to provide technical leadership across vulnerability assessments, penetration testing, and adversary emulation for customer engagements in critical infrastructure sectors.

You will shape engagement strategy, uncover real-world attack paths across OT networks, mentor team members, and represent Dragos within the broader OT security community. Willingness to travel up to 30-40% is expected.

Qualifications

• 8+ years hands-on cybersecurity experience in OT vulnerability assessment and testing.
• Deep understanding of OT architectures and SCADA/DCS networks.
• Experience with offensive security tooling such as Metasploit, Nmap, Kali, Cobalt Strike, Burp Suite.
• Ability to travel up to 30-40% domestically and internationally.

Responsibilities

• Lead complex OT penetration testing engagements and threat emulation for critical infrastructure clients.
• Define methodologies and red-team tactics across IT/OT boundaries.
• Translate findings into remediation guidance and improve tooling and detection content.
• Evolve playbooks and runbooks using threat intel and field lessons.
• Present strategic cybersecurity guidance to executives and stakeholders.

Skills

OT pentesting

Threat emulation

Leadership/mentoring

Technical report writing

Remote collaboration

Travel readiness

Tools

Metasploit

Nmap

Kali Linux

Cobalt Strike

Burp Suite

Job description

Dragos is seeking an Associate Principal OT Penetration Tester to provide technical leadership across vulnerability assessments, penetration testing, and adversary emulation for customer engagements in critical infrastructure sectors.

You will shape engagement strategy, uncover real-world attack paths across OT networks, mentor team members, and represent Dragos within the broader OT security community. Willingness to travel up to 30-40% is expected.