Senior Offensive Security Engineer

🕒 September 3

🇮🇳 India – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

👮‍♂️ Cybersecurity / Security Engineer

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5001 - 10000 employees

👥 HR Tech

☁️ SaaS

🤝 B2B

HR Tech • SaaS • B2B

First Advantage is a leading provider of global software and data for the HR technology market. Enabled by proprietary technology and AI, it delivers employment background screening, digital identity and verification services, APIs, and risk-monitoring products across the employee lifecycle. The company emphasizes automation and continuous identity verification, serving roughly 80,000 organizations in over 200 countries and territories, and maintains large proprietary databases (over one billion records). Headquartered in Atlanta and publicly traded (NASDAQ: FA), First Advantage focuses on helping customers hire smarter and onboard faster through software, data and services.

📋 Description

• Plan, scope, and execute internal and external penetration tests across web and mobile applications, APIs, AWS/Azure cloud, networks, and infrastructure • Design and run adversary emulation and red team engagements using multiple attack paths to achieve objective-based goals • Partner with Security Operations, Threat Intelligence & Hunt, and Detection Engineering on purple team exercises • Identify, validate, and safely exploit vulnerabilities, including chaining lower-severity issues into high-impact attack paths • Model threat actor tactics, techniques, and procedures using the MITRE ATT&CK framework • Review and validate findings, prioritize exploitability and business risk, create remediation tickets, and coordinate retests • Build and maintain custom scripts, tooling, and automation for scalable offensive testing • Produce decision-ready reports and executive summaries translating technical findings into business impact • Support incident response and threat hunting with offensive expertise and adversary insight • Develop repeatable methodologies, playbooks, and metrics to mature the offensive security program

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of hands-on experience in offensive security, penetration testing, red teaming, or a closely related security engineering role • Demonstrated expertise across web/mobile application, API, network, infrastructure, and cloud (AWS and/or Azure) penetration testing • Strong understanding of exploitation and post-exploitation techniques, attack-path chaining, and objective-based adversary emulation • Proficiency with Burp Suite Professional, Nmap, Metasploit, Kali Linux, and vulnerability scanners • Proficiency in at least one scripting or programming language, such as Python, Go, PowerShell, Ruby, or Bash • Working knowledge of the MITRE ATT&CK framework and hands-on experience mapping engagements to adversary TTPs • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present findings to technical audiences and executive leadership • Advanced offensive certifications such as OSEP, OSCE³, CRTO, or GXPN, and original security research, CVEs, or responsible disclosures • Experience with cloud-native attack techniques, container/Kubernetes (EKS/AKS), and serverless security testing • Experience operating or evaluating continuous/autonomous penetration testing and breach-and-attack-simulation platforms • Familiarity with detection engineering, SIEM/EDR platforms, and building purple team feedback loops into SOC content • Knowledge of relevant compliance and security frameworks • Experience mentoring junior engineers and helping mature an offensive security program

🏖️ Benefits

• Employee Impact Groups • FA Cares volunteer opportunities • Mentorship Advantage Program • SOAR, award-winning manager development program • Culture programs and benefits designed to enhance employee experience and development

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