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Red Team Penetration Tester

Job in Dahlgren, King George County, Virginia, 22448, USA
Listing for: Booz Allen Hamilton
Full Time position
Listed on 2026-09-12
Job specializations:
  • IT/Tech
    Cybersecurity, Systems Engineer, Network Security, Information Security & Data Protection
Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 86800 - 198000 USD Yearly USD 86800.00 198000.00 YEAR
Job Description & How to Apply Below

Red Team Penetration Tester

The Opportunity:

We’re mission accelerators who protect and advance national interests by harnessing cutting-edge technology. As a penetration tester, you'll play a pivotal role in safeguarding our critical digital environments. Your ability to provide support by developing detailed test and assessment plans to be used during onsite and remote security assessments and by understanding and carrying-out attack stages such as foot printing and scanning, enumeration, gaining access, escalation or privileges, maintaining access, network exploitation, and covering tracks using one or more Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs) will ensure the security of US Navy computer systems, applications, servers, and networks.

You will be providing support to customers by utilizing vulnerability scans, compliance checks, and other configuration data including Group Policy Object’s (GPOs) and Windows Software Update Service (WSUS) to accurately identify specific inconsistencies within system documentation such as vendor claims, Risk Management Framework (RMF) artifacts, CONOPS, systems engineering plans, design specifications, and interface descriptions and the actual applied security controls as developed or deployed within an Information System, Platform Information Technology (PIT) system, Information Technology (IT) product, or provided in IT services.

You will also provide customer support by performing packet-level analysis using appropriate tools such as Wireshark and tcp dump in order to identify specific information within network packets indicating anomalous or malicious behavior within network traffic flows. In this role, you’ll be instrumental in providing support by utilizing automated tools to conduct penetration tests of networks, applications, web applications, servers, endpoints, wireless, and mobile technologies and performing physical security testing to exploit physical security vulnerabilities by attempting to circumvent locks, badge readers, and other physical security controls, typically to gain unauthorized access to specific hosts.

Work with us as we help keep our customers’ digital environments secure. Join us. The world can't wait.

You Have:
  • 5+ years of experience in software engineering applied to program development and modeling and simulation applied to DoD or Information Technology systems
  • Experience with Penetration Testing (PENTEST), Red Team Operations, Tool or Software Development, such as exploits and malware, C2, reverse engineering, and bug bounties, PHP, ASP, SQL db's, Java, HTML, or No SQL
  • Knowledge of Linux and Windows based systems
  • Knowledge of common Penetration Testing (PENTEST) tools such as Kali, Metasploit, NMAP, and Cobalt Strike
  • Ability to debug and reverse engineer software
  • Top Secret clearance
  • HS diploma or GED
  • IAT Level II per DoD 8570.01 or successor
  • Certification Ability to obtain OSCP, OSCE, OSEE, OSWP, SANS, SEC
    560 - Network Penetration testing and Ethical Hacking
  • SEC
    542 - Web App Penetration Testing and Ethical Hacking
  • SEC
    660 - Advance Penetration Testing, Exploit Writing, and Ethical Hacking
  • SEC
    642
    -Advanced Web App Penetration Testing and Ethical Hacking, or SEC
    564 - Red Team Operations and Threat Emulation Certification within 3 months of hire date
  • Clearance:
    Applicants selected will be subject to a security investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information;
    Top Secret clearance is required.
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