Security Researcher - Offensive Security

Job description:
Role Snapshot
- Title: Security Assessment Engineer (Offensive Security) - Network / Web / OT
- Location: Chennai, India
- Experience: 2-5 years in hands-on offensive security
- Employment type: Full-time
- Travel: Required - on-site and OT engagements at client locations.
- Certification: At least one security certification is mandatory (see Requirements)

About the Role

These are not checkbox audits. Our engagements span demanding enterprise and critical environments, and every assessment is approached from an attacker's perspective. If a hard target genuinely excites you and you would rather spend an afternoon understanding a system deeply than fire off automated tooling you will fit right in. The work is varied, technically engaging, and intentionally challenging.

What You'll DoNetwork Security Assessment
- Perform internal and external network penetration tests with a strong emphasis on manual exploitation over tool output.
- Conduct enumeration, exploitation, privilege escalation,



and lateral movement across Windows and Linux environments.
- Assess Active Directory environments - kerberoasting, delegation abuse, ADCS/certificate attacks, trust abuse, and credential-based pivoting.
- Demonstrate realistic attack paths from initial foothold to domain or environment compromise.

Web Application Security Assessment
- Test web and API targets manually against and beyond the OWASP Top 10 - authentication and authorization flaws, business-logic abuse, injection, SSRF, deserialization, and access-control issues.
- Identify vulnerabilities that automated scanners routinely miss, and validate exploitability with proof-of-concept evidence.
- Chain lower-severity findings into high-impact exploitation scenarios.

OT / ICS Security Assessment
- Safely assess operational technology, SCADA, and ICS environments where availability and system fragility are critical constraints.
- Understand industrial protocols an

📌 Offensive Security Analyst (Chennai)
🏢 Necurity Solutions
📍 Chennai