# Senior Penetration Tester

**Company**: Dark Wolf
**Location**: Arlington, VA
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Salary**: $155,000.00 - $170,000.00
**Category**: Security
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Dark Wolf is actively seeking a Senior Penetration Tester to join our innovative team. This individual will play a critical role in assessing and enhancing the security of various products, including hardware, software, and embedded systems.

This role demands a deep understanding of penetration testing methodologies and exploit development, focusing on identifying and mitigating vulnerabilities across a wide range of technologies. You will have the chance to work on cutting-edge technologies and contribute to the enhancement of security across a wide range of platforms.

If you possess a strong background in penetration testing or red teaming, and have a passion for cybersecurity, we encourage you to apply for this lead role. This position is remote but may require travel to customer sites in VA and field sites, as needed.

## Job Responsibilities:

- Outlining plans to establish or leverage dynamically configurable, representative threat suites and network environments for scaled testing.

- Defining testing scenarios and automated test harnesses to characterize system detection, mitigation, and response capabilities against signature- and anomaly-based threats.

- Performing application security assessments targeting OWASP Top Ten vulnerabilities and API security vectors.

- Assessing wireless and RF security, including penetration testing on Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and Zigbee networks.

- Executing advanced vulnerability scanning, risk assessments, and manual verification to evaluate impact on system confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

- Conducting comprehensive penetration testing across hardware, software, firmware, RF, and network components.

- Developing and executing custom exploits, proof-of-concept attacks, and threat-emulation environments to demonstrate vulnerability impact.

- Documenting detailed technical findings, evaluating exploit effort and risk levels, and delivering actionable remediation strategies to strengthen product security.

## Required Qualifications:

- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Cybersecurity, Information Technology, or a related field

- Minimum of 5 years of experience across three or more domain areas: intelligence analysis, network engineering, network security, penetration testing, red team operations, hardware engineering, software engineering, exploit development, reverse engineering, or vulnerability assessment

- Proven ability to collaborate effectively across multidisciplinary teams, customers, and external stakeholders

- Strong oral communication skills with experience leading briefing sessions, customer outreach, and user training

- Strong written communication skills with experience drafting technical status reports, case details, and system documentation

- Demonstrated experience synthesizing complex system analysis into clear technical reports, findings, and actionable recommendations

- U.S. Citizenship with an active Top Secret security clearance

## Desired Qualifications:

- Active professional certifications such as OSCP, PNPT, GPEN, CEH, or similar penetration testing and offensive security credentials

- Proven ability to research, develop, and execute complex exploits and proof-of-concept attacks

- Strong technical background in firmware analysis, binary exploitation, and embedded systems security assessments

- Proficiency in assessing cloud architectures and deployments across Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform

- Familiarity with the NIST SP 800-53 security controls and risk management frameworks

The salary range for this position is $155,000.00 - $170,000.00 commensurate on experience and technical skillset.

## Skills

### Required
- penetration testing
- exploit development
- vulnerability assessment
- network security
- cybersecurity
- OWASP Top Ten vulnerabilities
- API security vectors
- wireless and RF security
- Wi-Fi
- Bluetooth
- Zigbee networks
- advanced vulnerability scanning
- risk assessments
- manual verification
- hardware engineering
- software engineering
- reverse engineering

### Nice to have
- OSCP
- PNPT
- GPEN
- CEH
- firmware analysis
- binary exploitation
- embedded systems security assessments
- cloud architectures
- Amazon Web Services
- Microsoft Azure
- Google Cloud Platform
- NIST SP 800-53 security controls

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