Cloud Pentester

Title: Cloud Pentester Belong. Connect. Grow. with KBR! KBR’s National Security Solutions team provides high-end engineering and advanced technology solutions to our customers in the intelligence and national security communities. In this position, your work will have a profound impact on the country’s most critical role – protecting our national security. Why Join Us? Innovative Projects: KBR’s work is at the forefront of engineering, logistics, operations, science, program management, mission IT and cybersecurity solutions. Collaborative Environment: Be part of a dynamic team that thrives on collaboration and innovation, fostering a supportive and intellectually stimulating workplace. Impactful Work: Your contributions will be pivotal in designing and optimizing defense systems that ensure national security and shape the future of space defense.

Conduct penetration testing, vulnerability assessments, and adversarial emulation activities against enterprise networks, operating systems, applications, virtualized environments, and cloud-based systems. Apply offensive cyber techniques, attack methodologies, and system exploitation approaches to identify and validate security weaknesses. Analyze network architectures, security controls, and system configurations to evaluate risk and identify potential attack paths. Perform security testing of Windows, Linux, virtualized, and enterprise computing environments, including hypervisors and supporting infrastructure. Assess and validate IT security architectures, technical designs, and system implementations to ensure compliance with cybersecurity best practices. Analyze assessment and testing results, develop risk mitigation strategies, and provide recommendations to improve overall security posture. Utilize network management, monitoring, and security assessment tools to support testing activities, reporting, and threat analysis.

Location: On-site Travel Requirements: Minimal Working Hours: Standard Qualifications: Required: Active TS/SCI with a Polygraph Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline. Additional relevant experience may be considered in lieu of a degree. Demonstrated experience conducting penetration testing, vulnerability assessments, or offensive cyber operations. Experience leveraging adversarial tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) to evaluate system and network security. Experience applying cyber attack methodologies, exploitation techniques, and security testing frameworks. Working knowledge of cybersecurity principles, security controls, and operating system security for Windows, Linux, and virtualized platforms. Experience performing network security analysis, architecture reviews, and security control assessments. Desired: Experience designing, implementing, or assessing enterprise security architectures. Experience evaluating complex Windows-based infrastructures, enterprise services, and system configurations. Experience testing or reviewing hypervisors, virtual environments, and enterprise computing platforms. Familiarity with major cloud service providers, cloud-native security concepts, and cloud architecture design. Experience developing risk management methodologies and translating technical findings into actionable mitigation plans. Hands-on experience with commercial and open-source penetration testing, vulnerability scanning, and network analysis tools. Relevant industry certifications such as OSCP, GPEN, CEH, CISSP, GCIH, or comparable cybersecurity certifications. Basic Compensation: $190,500 to $232,800 annual salary This range is for the Virginia area only The offered rate will be based on the selected candidate’s knowledge, skills, abilities and/or experience and in consideration of internal parity. Additional Compensation: KBR may offer bonuses, commissions, or other forms of compensation to certain job titles or levels,