Senior Penetration Testing Engineer - AI-Driven Red Team

Palo Alto Networks; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 152,000 - 246,000; Full time

Job summary

Palo Alto Networks is seeking a highly skilled security professional to conduct comprehensive penetration testing across cloud-native applications, large-scale infrastructure, and complex network architectures. You will lead simulated breach scenarios, validate multi-tenant isolation, and document vulnerabilities for remediation by SRE and Engineering teams.

The role emphasizes AI-assisted testing, LLM-driven automation, and producing executive-ready reports.

Qualifications

• Proven experience performing comprehensive penetration tests across cloud-native apps, large-scale infrastructure, and complex networks.
• Experience planning and leading red team engagements, including lateral movement and privilege escalation.
• Ability to translate complex findings into executive-ready reports and collaborate with SRE/Engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Conduct comprehensive penetration tests across cloud-native applications, large-scale infrastructure, and complex network architectures, covering all FedRAMP-mandated attack vectors.
• Execute multi-tenant isolation testing and segmentation validation.
• Identify, exploit, and document vulnerabilities in cloud services, container orchestration platforms, and automated deployment pipelines.
• Plan and lead assumed-breach, objective-based red team operations against systems — including lateral movement, privilege escalation, and persistence — to test the effectiveness of defensive controls, monitoring, and alerting systems.
• Integrate AI-assisted testing frameworks and LLM-driven automation into penetration testing workflows to accelerate threat discovery, analysis, and exploit development.
• Provide expert-level security guidance to SRE and Engineering teams during remediation planning and secure architectural design.
• Lead the security assessment of internal tooling, identity management systems, and third-party integrations.
• Research and develop custom tooling or scripts to automate testing and improve the efficiency of offensive engagements.
• Translate complex technical findings into high-impact reports and presentations for both technical stakeholders and executive leadership.
• Mentor junior team members and act as a subject matter expert on emerging threats and exploitation trends.

Skills

Penetration testing

FedRAMP testing

Red team operations

AI-assisted testing

LLM-driven automation

Threat discovery

Vulnerability analysis

Security reporting

Mentoring

Tools

Cloud security tooling

Container orchestration

Job description

Palo Alto Networks is seeking a highly skilled security professional to conduct comprehensive penetration testing across cloud-native applications, large-scale infrastructure, and complex network architectures. You will lead simulated breach scenarios, validate multi-tenant isolation, and document vulnerabilities for remediation by SRE and Engineering teams.

The role emphasizes AI-assisted testing, LLM-driven automation, and producing executive-ready reports.