# Penetration Tester

**Company**: GDIT
**Location**: McLean, VA
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $122,230 - $165,370
**Category**: Security
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

As a Penetration Tester supporting customer activities at GDIT, you will play a crucial role in ensuring the security of their systems and networks.

GDIT is a global technology and professional services company that delivers technology solutions and mission services to the U.S. government, defense and intelligence community.

**Responsibilities:**

- 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

- 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

- Experience with NIST 800-53 and Risk Management Framework

**Requirements:**

- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Information Systems, Information Technology, Cybersecurity, or a closely related discipline

- 6+ years of related experience

- Top Secret SCI + Polygraph clearance

- Experience with NIST 800-53, NIST 800-115, and Risk Management Framework

- Strong writing skills

- Experience with AWS Cloud Security

**Benefits:**

- 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

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## Skills

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

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

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