Senior Penetration Testing Engineer — Red Team Lead

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

Job summary

Palo Alto Networks, Inc. is seeking a security professional to conduct comprehensive penetration testing across cloud-native apps, large-scale infrastructure, and complex networks, including rigorous red team assessments.

You will integrate AI-assisted testing and LLm-driven automation, collaborating with SRE and engineering teams to remediate findings and strengthen secure architectures in an on-site Santa Clara, CA role.

Qualifications

• Experience performing comprehensive penetration tests across diverse cloud-native environments.
• Proven ability to plan and lead red team operations.
• Strong knowledge of cloud security, container orchestration, and secure deployment practices.

Responsibilities

• Perform penetration tests across cloud-native apps, large-scale infra, and complex networks.
• Execute multi-tenant isolation testing and segmentation validation.
• Identify vulnerabilities in cloud services, containers, and pipelines.
• Lead assumed-breach exercises to test defensive controls and monitoring.
• Integrate AI-assisted testing and automation into workflows.
• Provide security guidance during remediation and design.

Skills

Penetration testing

Red team operations

Cloud security

Threat modeling

Tools

AI-assisted testing frameworks

LLM automation

Job description

Palo Alto Networks, Inc. is seeking a security professional to conduct comprehensive penetration testing across cloud-native apps, large-scale infrastructure, and complex networks, including rigorous red team assessments.

You will integrate AI-assisted testing and LLm-driven automation, collaborating with SRE and engineering teams to remediate findings and strengthen secure architectures in an on-site Santa Clara, CA role.