Senior Penetration Tester & Red Team Engineer

Cognizant; New York (NY); Presencial; USD 134.000 - 155.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off

401(k) plan and contributions

Long-term/Short-term Disability

Paid Parental Leave

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Descripción de la vacante

Cognizant is seeking an experienced Senior Penetration Tester / Red Team Engineer to perform advanced offensive security assessments across applications, networks, cloud, APIs, and endpoints. You will simulate real-world attacks to identify weaknesses and improve enterprise cyber resilience.

The role requires hands-on testing, vulnerability analysis, and clear remediation recommendations, plus the ability to communicate risk to technical and leadership audiences and to work with cross-functional

Formación

• 8+ years of hands-on experience in Penetration Testing, Red Teaming, Offensive Security, or Security Engineering.
• Expert-level experience conducting penetration tests across web apps, networks, APIs, endpoints, cloud, and enterprise infra.
• Strong expertise in vulnerability exploitation, attack-path analysis, credential security, authentication testing, and security control validation.
• Advanced hands-on experience with Burp Suite, Metasploit, Nmap, Kali Linux, Pentera Console/Surface, and vulnerability scanners.
• Strong scripting and automation skills using Python, Bash, PowerShell, or similar technologies.
• Deep understanding of OWASP, CVE/CVSS, MITRE ATT&CK, network security, app security, and modern attack methodologies.
• Experience working with development and infra teams to provide remediation guidance and perform validation/retesting of fixes.
• Strong technical reporting skills with the ability to communicate vulnerabilities, business impact, and remediation priorities to technical and leadership audiences.
• Relevant certifications such as OSCP, OSEP, OSWE, GPEN, GXPN, CRTO, or equivalent offensive security certifications are preferred.

Responsabilidades

• Conduct penetration testing across web apps, APIs, networks, cloud environments, mobile apps, and Windows/Linux systems.
• Perform vulnerability assessments using automated scanners and manual testing.
• Simulate adversary scenarios to evaluate authentication, authorization, access controls, and network defenses.
• Identify and validate vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, exposed credentials, insecure code, and attack paths.
• Utilize offensive security tools such as Burp Suite, Metasploit, Nmap, Kali Linux, Pentera, and scanners.
• Develop Python and Bash scripts and automation utilities to improve testing efficiency.
• Document methodologies, evidence, risk impact, and findings with remediation recommendations.
• Partner with application, infra, cloud, and security teams to remediate and retest findings.
• Research emerging threats, CVEs, OWASP vulnerabilities, exploitation techniques, and evolving offensive security methodologies.
• Support security assessments, risk reviews, and continuous improvement of offensive security capabilities.

Conocimientos

Penetration testing

Red Teaming

Offensive security

Security engineering

Python scripting

Bash scripting

PowerShell

Herramientas

Burp Suite

Metasploit

Nmap

Kali Linux

Pentera

Vulnerability scanners

Descripción del empleo

Cognizant is seeking an experienced Senior Penetration Tester / Red Team Engineer to perform advanced offensive security assessments across applications, networks, cloud, APIs, and endpoints. You will simulate real-world attacks to identify weaknesses and improve enterprise cyber resilience.

The role requires hands-on testing, vulnerability analysis, and clear remediation recommendations, plus the ability to communicate risk to technical and leadership audiences and to work with cross-functional