Penetration Tester Team Lead
Tasks
- Assess risk and attack feasibility
- Automate attack paths
- Bypass security controls
- Collaborate with SOC teams for detection validation
- Conduct purple team engagements
- Conduct quality assurance on deliverables
- Conduct red team engagements
- Deliver outbriefings on findings
- Develop custom exploits
- Develop custom payloads
- Develop offensive tooling
- Develop rules of engagement
- Integrate new offensive capabilities
- Lead and execute penetration testing
- Lead paired testing
- Lead stakeholder planning sessions
- Manage penetration testing team
- Mentor junior testers
- Produce penetration test reports
- Recommend remediation actions
- Review testing methodology and reporting standards
- Schedule and coordinate penetration tests
- Script in Bash
- Script in PowerShell
- Script in Python
- Script in Ruby
- Tune SIEM use cases
- Use MITRE ATTACK to map tactics and techniques
- Validate exploit paths
- Whiteboard attack paths
Perks/Benefits
- N/A
Skills/Tech-stack
API Security | Active Directory | Application Security | Bash | BloodHound | Burp Suite | Cloud Security | Cobalt Strike | Enterprise networking | Exploit Development | Hybrid Cloud | IAM | Lateral movement | Linux | Metasploit | Mitre Attack | Mythic | Network Security | Nmap | Offensive security | Payload Development | Penetration Testing | Powershell | Privilege escalation | Purple Team | Python | Red Teaming | Red team | Red team engagements | Ruby | Rules of Engagement | SIEM | Scripting | Sliver | Threat-Informed Testing | Token Theft | Vulnerability Assessment | Web Application | Web application security | Windows
Education
Roles
Lead | Penetration Tester | Penetration Testing Team Lead | Red Team Lead | Team Lead | Tester | Testing Team Lead
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