Principal Penetration Tester – Red Team Location: Pune

Experience: 7 years

Role Type: Red Team / Offensive Security

Key Responsibilities
Conduct end-to-end Red Team engagements including reconnaissance, initial access, privilege escalation, lateral movement, persistence, and objective-based attacks.
Perform enterprise-level penetration testing and adversary simulation across network, application, cloud, and Active Directory environments.
Identify and exploit weaknesses in Active Directory and Azure Active Directory/Entra ID environments.
Assess Azure cloud infrastructure for security vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, identity and access-control weaknesses.
Perform network security assessments, including internal/external network penetration testing.
Conduct social engineering/phishing simulations where required as part of Red Team engagements.
Execute Red Team exercises against large and complex enterprise infrastructures.
Document attack paths, vulnerabilities, exploitation techniques, business impact, and remediation recommendations.
Prepare detailed technical reports and present findings to technical and client stakeholders.

Key Requirements
7 years of overall experience in Cybersecurity / Offensive Security.




Strong hands-on Red Teaming experience, preferably in enterprise environments.
OSCP certification – Mandatory.
Robust experience with Active Directory and Azure AD/Entra ID attacks.
Hands-on experience with Azure Cloud Security / Cloud Penetration Testing.
Robust understanding of Networking concepts and network penetration testing.
Experience with lateral movement, privilege escalation, credential attacks, persistence and attack-path development.
Experience conducting end-to-end Red Team engagements, not only vulnerability assessment/VAPT.
Ability to work on large and complex client/enterprise infrastructures.
Solid technical reporting and client-facing communication skills.

Good to Have
CRTO / CRTP certification
Experience with C2 frameworks such as Cobalt Strike, Sliver, etc.
Experience with AD attack tools and techniques such as BloodHound, Mimikatz, PowerView, Rubeus, etc.
Experience in social engineering / phishing simulations.
Cloud penetration testing experience across Azure/AWS.
Experience with adversary simulation and threat-informed Red Team operations.

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