Security Consultant - Penetration Testing & DevSecOps

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Location This is a remote role based in the US.About The Job You're Considering We are seeking a Senior Security Consultant - Penetration Testing & Dev Sec Ops  with 5-8 years of cybersecurity experience and strong expertise in application penetration testing, offensive security, Dev Sec Ops , SSDLC, and vulnerability management. The role focuses on conducting security assessments across applications, APIs, cloud environments, and CI/CD pipelines, while collaborating with development and engineering teams to embed security throughout the software development lifecycle.

The ideal candidate combines strong technical skills, a proactive security mindset, and the ability to communicate risks effectively to both technical and business stakeholders.

Your Role Penetration Testing & Offensive Security Perform manual and automated penetration testing of web applications, APIs, mobile applications, cloud environments, and supporting infrastructure.

Conduct reconnaissance, vulnerability discovery, exploitation, and post-exploitation activities following industry-standard methodologies such as OWASP, PTES, NIST, and MITRE ATT&CK.Identify security vulnerabilities, validate exploitability, assess business risk, and provide actionable remediation recommendations.

Execute security assessments against modern architectures including microservices, containers, Kubernetes, and cloud-native applications.

Develop proof-of-concepts to demonstrate security weaknesses and attack paths.

Prepare detailed technical reports and executive summaries for customers and stakeholders.

Dev Sec Ops  & Secure SDLCIntegrate security controls and testing into CI/CD pipelines.

Implement and manage SAST, DAST, SCA, IaC, Container Security, Secrets Detection, and API Security testing solutions.

Collaborate with development teams to remediate vulnerabilities and adopt secure coding practices.

Participate in security architecture reviews, threat modeling exercises, and secure design assessments.

Automate security testing and compliance validation within Dev Ops tool chains.

Develop security guardrails and policy-as-code capabilities to improve software security posture.

Vulnerability Management & Security Engineering Perform vulnerability triage, risk prioritization, and remediation tracking.

Support continuous security monitoring and risk assessment activities.

Analyze emerging threats, attack techniques, and security trends to improve testing methodologies.

Assist in development of security standards, procedures, and best practices.

Work with engineering, cloud, and infrastructure teams to enhance organizational security posture.

Stakeholder Engagement Present findings and recommendations to developers, architects, engineering teams, and leadership.

Provide security consulting throughout the software development lifecycle.

Your Skills And Experience Education Bachelor 's degree in Computer Science, Information Security, Engineering, or a related field.

Experience5-8 years of hands-on cybersecurity experience.

Minimum 3+ years of experience conducting application and API penetration testing.

Experience implementing or supporting Dev Sec Ops  initiatives within CI/CD environments.

Technical Skills Strong understanding of:

Web Application Security API Security Secure SDLCOWASP Top 10

OWASP API Top 10

MITRE ATT&CKThreat Modeling Vulnerability Management…