# Penetration Tester

**Company**: GDIT
**Location**: McLean, VA
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $168,141 - $227,485
**Category**: Security
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Seize your opportunity to make a personal impact as a Penetration Tester supporting customer activities. GDIT is your place to make meaningful contributions to challenging projects and grow a rewarding career.

As a Penetration Tester, you will help ensure today is safe and tomorrow is smarter. Our work depends on a Penetration Tester joining our highly skilled team to be a premier provider of cyber security services to the customer. We provide consummate cyber security risk management “as a service” platform across multiple fabrics and centers.

**HOW A PENETRATION TESTER WILL MAKE AN IMPACT**

- Conduct internal and external penetration testing of networks, web applications, databases, and cloud services

- Manually exploit and compromise networks, web applications, databases, and cloud services to include privilege escalation and lateral movement

- Examine results of web/OS scanners, scans and static source code analysis

- Identify vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and compliance issues

- Write final reports, defend all findings to include the risk or vulnerability, mitigation strategies, and references

- Ability to meet and coordinate with various audiences to include developers, system administrators, project managers, and senior government stakeholders

- Provide security recommendations for developers, system administrators, project managers, and senior government stakeholders

- Report vulnerabilities identified during security assessments

- Write penetration testing Rules of Engagements (RoE), Test Plans, and Standard Operating Procedures (SOP)

- Produce actionable, threat-based reports on security testing results

- Conduct security reviews, technical research, and provide reporting to increase security defense mechanisms

**WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO SUCCEED:**

- Education: Bachelor's Degree (Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Information Systems, Information Technology, Cybersecurity, or a closely related discipline)

- Required Experience: 8+ yrs

- Clearance: TS/SCI with Polygraph

- Required Technical Skills: Experience with NIST 800-53 and Risk Management Framework

- Desired Certifications: CEH - Certified Ethical Hacker Certification, CPT - Certified Penetration Tester

- Desired Skills: Strong writing skills, Experience with AWS and Azure Cloud Security

**GDIT IS YOUR PLACE:**

- 401K with company match

- Comprehensive health and wellness packages

- Internal mobility team dedicated to helping you own your career

- Professional growth opportunities including paid education and certifications

- Cutting-edge technology you can learn from

- Rest and recharge with paid vacation and holidays

## Skills

### Required
- Cloud Security
- Cybersecurity Risk Management
- Information Security
- NIST 800-53
- Risk Management Framework

### Nice to have
- AWS Cloud Security
- Azure Cloud Security
- Strong writing skills
- CEH - Certified Ethical Hacker Certification
- CPT - Certified Penetration Tester

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