Greetings from Peoplefy !!

We have an opening for Penetration Test Engineer role for Pune Location with one of our MNC Clients.

Job Description Penetration Test Engineer

Location: Pune
Work Model: Hybrid
Experience: 2 to 8 Years
Employment Type: Full-time

Role Overview

We are looking for a Penetration Test Engineer with hands-on experience in network and application penetration testing. The candidate will be responsible for identifying, validating, and reporting security vulnerabilities across internal/external networks, web applications, APIs, and infrastructure.

Key Responsibilities

- Perform network penetration testing for internal and external networks, servers, network devices, and infrastructure.
- Conduct vulnerability assessments and penetration testing of web applications, APIs, mobile applications, and network infrastructure.
- Identify and validate vulnerabilities through manual and automated testing techniques.
- Perform testing for common network vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, weak authentication, exposed services, and insecure protocols.
- Conduct activities such as network enumeration, service discovery, vulnerability exploitation, privilege escalation, and post-exploitation analysis.
- Prepare detailed penetration testing reports with risk ratings, technical findings, evidence, and remediation recommendations.




- Work with development, infrastructure, and IT teams to validate remediation of identified vulnerabilities.
- Stay updated on the latest vulnerabilities, attack techniques, tools, and security best practices.

Required Skills

- 2 to 8 years of hands-on experience in penetration testing.
- Strong experience in network penetration testing of internal and external environments.
- Valuable understanding of TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP/HTTPS, SSH, FTP, SMB, LDAP, Active Directory, and common network protocols.
- Experience with network reconnaissance, enumeration, vulnerability assessment, exploitation, and privilege escalation.
- Good understanding of OWASP Top 10 and web/API security testing.
- Hands-on experience with tools such as Nmap, Nessus/OpenVAS, Metasploit, Burp Suite, and similar security tools.
- Knowledge of Windows and Linux security.
- Experience in external/internal network, wireless, cloud, or infrastructure penetration testing is an advantage.
- Certifications such as OSCP, CEH, eJPT, PNPT, or equivalent are preferred.
- Basic scripting knowledge in Python, Bash, or PowerShell is a plus.
- Knowledge of cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP is an advantage.

Interested candidate can share there CV on [email protected]

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