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Red Team Penetration Tester

Job in Virginia Beach, Virginia, 23450, USA
Listing for: Booz Allen Hamilton
Full Time position
Listed on 2026-09-12
Job specializations:
  • IT/Tech
    Cybersecurity, Systems Engineer, Network Security
Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 86800 - 198000 USD Yearly USD 86800.00 198000.00 YEAR
Job Description & How to Apply Below

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Build mission-ready tech that protects the nation.

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 on‑site 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 U.S. Navy computer systems, applications, servers, and networks.

You will provide support to customers by utilizing vulnerability scans, compliance checks, and other configuration data such as Group Policy Objects (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, 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, and wireless and mobile technologies, and providing support by 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 sof tware engineering applied to program development, and modeling and simulation applied to DoD or IT systems
  • Experience in Penetration Testing ( PENTEST ), Red Team operations, PHP, ASP, SQL databases, Java, HTML, No

    SQL, and tool or sof tware development such as exploits or malware, C2, reverse engineering, and bug bounties
  • Knowledge of Linux and Windows-based systems
  • Knowledge of common PENTEST tools such asKali, Met asploit, NMAP, and Cobalt Strike
  • Ability to debug and reverse engineer sof tware
  • Ability to travel up to 25% of the time
  • Secret clearance
  • HS diploma or GED
  • Ability to obtain an OSCP, OSCE, OSEE, OSW P, SANS Certs: SEC
    560 - Network PENTEST and Ethical Hacking, SEC
    542 - Web App PENTEST and Ethical Hacking, SEC
    642
    -Advanced Web App PENTEST and Ethical Hacking, SEC
    564 - Red Team Operations and Threat Emulation, or SEC
    660 - Advance PENTEST, Exploit Writing, and Ethical Hacking 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;
Secret clearance is required.

Compensation

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