Web & Cloud Penetration Tester – Remote

Silpa Consulting LLC; Houston, Northern (TX, KY); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 193,000; Full time

Job summary

Silpa Companies, LLC is hiring a Penetration Tester for client engagements in authenticated web, API, and cloud testing. This hands-on role scopes, executes, and reports on modern web stacks and cloud environments (AWS/Azure).

You will produce findings with remediation guidance and defend them in client walkthroughs. We seek 4+ years of pentesting/red-team experience, strong Python scripting, and advanced Burp Suite Pro skills.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of penetration testing or red-team experience.
• Hands-on web and API testing including OWASP Top 10 and OWASP API Top 10 at depth.
• Authorized to work in the U.S.
• Candidates located in the Houston, Texas area will be given preference; remote consultants will also be considered.

Responsibilities

• Scope and execute authenticated web and API penetration tests.
• Run cloud penetration tests focused on AWS and Azure including misconfiguration, IAM weakness, and pivot paths.
• Conduct mobile or thick-client testing where in scope.
• Author findings reports with reproduction steps, business-impact ratings, and remediation guidance.
• Defend findings in walkthrough sessions with client engineering teams.
• Run retests and validate remediation.
• Contribute to internal tooling and the team\'s testing playbooks.
• Run purple-team exercises in coordination with client SOCs where in scope.

Skills

Penetration testing

Red-team

Python scripting

Burp Suite Pro

Tools

Burp Suite Pro

Python

AWS

Azure

OWASP Top 10

Job description

Silpa Companies, LLC is hiring a Penetration Tester for client engagements in authenticated web, API, and cloud testing. This hands-on role scopes, executes, and reports on modern web stacks and cloud environments (AWS/Azure).

You will produce findings with remediation guidance and defend them in client walkthroughs. We seek 4+ years of pentesting/red-team experience, strong Python scripting, and advanced Burp Suite Pro skills.