Penetration Tester

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🇨🇦 Canada – Remote

💵 $90k - $120k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟢 Junior

🟡 Mid-level

🔧 QA Engineer (Quality Assurance)

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Packetlabs

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2011

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

📦 Logistics

Consulting • Healthcare • Logistics

Packetlabs is a CREST-accredited, SOC 2 Type II attested cybersecurity firm specializing in impact-first penetration testing and red teaming. They provide comprehensive on-premise, cloud, application, API, mobile, OT, and AI/LLM penetration testing, as well as social engineering, purple teaming, and cyber maturity assessments, focusing on actionable findings with zero false positives and no outsourcing. Packetlabs serves enterprise clients across industries such as retail, finance, healthcare, and telecom, emphasizing North American data residency and OSCP-certified staff.

📋 Description

• Perform penetration testing of web applications, mobile applications, thick clients, and APIs • Conduct source code reviews and whitebox penetration testing to prove the impact of application flaws • Reverse engineer mobile and thick client applications • Chain application flaws into cloud and on-premises Active Directory infrastructure where applicable • Develop detailed reports on findings and remediations for impactful findings • Debrief findings at technical and executive levels • Perform SAST and DAST on enterprise, SaaS, and custom in-house applications • Use scanners and validate and eliminate false positives • Continuously go beyond standard OWASP testing practices • Limited opportunities for lateral movement into infrastructure teams, at manager discretion

🎯 Requirements

• Experienced developer/application security tester • Solid working knowledge of C, C#, Python, Objective-C, Java, JavaScript, SQL, and AngularJS • Familiarity with XML, JSON, SOAP, REST, AJAX, and web services • Understanding of AI/LLM weaknesses and application flaws • Extensive experience using an attack proxy such as Burp Suite • 3–5 years of penetration testing and consulting experience preferred • Graduate of a post-secondary college or university degree program • At least two years of experience dealing with information security-related tasks • Professional qualification(s), including OSCP, OSWE, or BSCP • OSCP or Burp is mandatory for the organization • Strong understanding of OWASP for Web, API, Mobile, and AI/LLM • Customer-first mentality, strong communication, responsiveness, dependability, humility, and willingness to continuously learn

🏖️ Benefits

• Immediate and ongoing offensive security training, mentorship, and professional development • Opportunity to work on high-stakes hardware engagements • Opportunity to shape the growth, direction, and methodology of Packetlabs' expanding hardware practice • Leadership team valuing substance, quality, and disciplined execution • Collaboration with a highly skilled team of security professionals • Competitive compensation and growth opportunity • GRRSP with corporate matching in Canada • Participation in corporate benefit plans within Canada • Flexible work environment • Fully remote within Canada

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