Role Summary

The Principal Penetration Tester/ Offensive Security Team Lead will lead and scale the organization's offensive security and penetration testing practice within a lean and quick-growing cybersecurity company. This is a player-coach role: the ideal candidate is expected to remain deeply hands-on, actively conducting and contributing to penetration testing engagements alongside leadership, delivery oversight, team mentorship, and business growth responsibilities.

This individual will set the technical bar for the practice — personally executing complex assessments, driving methodology excellence, and ensuring high-quality delivery across all client engagements. They will also support pre-sales activities and help establish the company as a trusted offensive security partner.

The ideal candidate thrives in a startup environment, leads by technical example, and is equally comfortable exploiting a misconfigured cloud environment in the morning and presenting findings to a CISO in the afternoon.

Key Responsibilities

Hands-On Technical Delivery





Personally conduct and contribute to penetration testing engagements across web applications, APIs, cloud environments, networks, mobile applications, wireless infrastructure, and enterprise systems
Take direct ownership of complex, high-risk, or sensitive engagements requiring deep technical expertise
Perform adversary simulation, exploit development, and advanced attack chain construction on client engagements
Author and review high-quality technical reports — including detailed findings, evidence, risk ratings, and actionable remediation guidance
Remain current with offensive tooling, exploitation techniques, CVE research, and emerging attack vectors through personal practice and research

Practice Leadership & Delivery

Establish and continuously evolve testing methodologies, quality standards, reporting frameworks, and operational best practices
Ensure timely, high-quality delivery of all client engagements wh

📌 Principal Penetration Tester/ Offensive Security Team Lead (Pune)
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