Cybersecurity Engineer – Offensive Security, Penetration Testing & Vulnerability Management
Job in
Frederick, Frederick County, Maryland, 21701, USA
Listed on 2026-09-12
Listing for:
ROHDE & SCHWARZ GmbH & Co. KG
Full Time
position Listed on 2026-09-12
Job specializations:
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IT/Tech
Cybersecurity, Information Security & Data Protection
Job Description & How to Apply Below
- Perform vulnerability assessments of systems, networks, applications, operating systems, COTS products, appliances, and embedded devices.
- Plan, coordinate, and perform authorized penetration testing and security validation activities within controlled laboratory and customer environments.
- Identify security weaknesses, attack paths, insecure configurations, exposed services, and potential control deficiencies.
- Perform vulnerability scanning using tools such as Nessus, Nmap, and other approved security assessment tools.
- Analyze CVEs and vendor security advisories to determine applicability, exploitability, operational impact, and remediation requirements.
- Develop vulnerability assessment reports, technical findings, risk ratings, remediation recommendations, and supporting evidence.
- Maintain and improve vulnerability tracking and remediation processes throughout the system lifecycle.
- Validate remediation activities and verify that identified vulnerabilities have been appropriately mitigated.
- Perform network and protocol analysis using tools such as Wireshark and related diagnostic/security tools.
- Support security testing of IP networks, firewalls, switches, routers, Linux and Windows systems, VoIP systems, applications, and embedded devices.
- Evaluate system attack surfaces, trust boundaries, data flows, interfaces, authentication mechanisms, and externally accessible services.
- Participate in threat modeling, attack-path analysis, misuse-case development, and security architecture reviews.
- Work with engineering and R&D teams to reproduce security findings and develop practical remediation solutions.
- Support incident response, forensic analysis, and investigation activities when required.
- Contribute to System Security Plans, security assessment reports, risk assessments, customer documentation, and other cybersecurity deliverables.
- Support Factory Acceptance Testing (FAT), Site Acceptance Testing (SAT), customer deployments, onsite assessments, and witness testing.
- Develop scripts, tools, and repeatable methodologies to improve vulnerability assessment, security testing, evidence collection, and reporting.
- Research emerging threats, vulnerabilities, exploitation techniques, and defensive technologies relevant to Rohde & Schwarz products and customer environments.
- Collaborate with cybersecurity, product, and engineering teams in Europe and North America.
- Support the broader cybersecurity organization as priorities, programs, and customer requirements evolve.
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